Wokingham Borough Connect
We have a variety of adult education courses on offer this term - whether it's a course to help with work skills or one to pick up ideas to help in family life.
Some courses are free and those courses that have a cost are free for anyone who is in receipt of Universal Credit (work related), Employment Support Allowance, Jobseeker’s Allowance, or are on low income and in receipt of Income Support. Please contact us with any queries around costs. Eligibility requirements for all courses are at the end of the newsletter.
Help with your maths
During the sessions you will refresh the basic maths skills which are used in everyday life and work including fractions, percentages and ratios. The course will help you assess your current skill level and identify further courses you could attend if you want to improve your maths skills further. The sessions are part of the Multiply initiative to improve adult numeracy and are free for learners who have lived in the UK for more than three years.
Introduction to being a Teaching Assistant and Working in Schools
- 5 June to 10 July, Mondays 1pm to 3pm, Brambles Children’s Centre, Wokingham
- £45 – free to those on jobseeking benefits or a low income
- Apply here
Find out more about different roles available in schools and gain an understanding of how to apply for roles. Explore your own strengths and weaknesses in your transferable skills and build your confidence to apply for roles in schools.
Excel for Work
- 5 June to 17 July, Mondays 1pm to 3pm, Online via Zoom
- £30 - free to those on jobseeking benefits or a low income
- Apply here
Know how to create everyday formulas. Learn techniques for summarising and sorting data for easier understanding. This course is a progression on from the Excel for Beginners course.
Excel for beginners
- 15 June to 20 July, Thursdays 10.15am to 12.15pm, Wokingham Library
- £30 - free to those on jobseeking benefits or a low income
- Apply here
Learn to use Excel and create simple spreadsheets. Gain confidence in sorting data, entering data and find out how you can use it for work or personal use.
Word for Work
- 8 June to 20 July, Thursdays 1.30pm to 3.30pm, Wokingham Library
- £30 - free to those on jobseeking benefits or a low income
- Apply here
Learn to use Word to create and amend documents. This course will help you to gain confidence to use Word in work situations through learning to apply a variety of formatting tools and in creating tables.
Mixing up maths
- 12 June, Monday 9.30am to 11.30am, Rainbow Community Centre, Winnersh
- Free
- Apply here
Cooking with your child is a great way to use maths in a practical way at home. From measuring to fractions, this session will help you gain confidence in your own maths skills and inspire you how to share these with your child. This course is part of the Multiply initiative.
Building your confidence to get back into work or volunteering
- 12 June to 17 July, Mondays 10am to 11.30am, Online via Zoom
- Free
- Apply here
Getting into work or volunteering after a break for any reason, or for the first time in a new country, can be daunting. This course will help you to identify all the strengths and qualities you have that employers want and look at ways to expand your experience through volunteering or further learning while building your confidence to take the next steps.
Learn with Lego
- 13 June, Tuesday 9.30am to 11.30am, Finchampstead Children's Centre
- Free
- Apply here
Learn how to use Lego with your children for more than building! Explore basic maths and gain confidence in using bricks to help you child count and measure, and explore mathematical problems of symmetry and patterns. This course is aimed at parents / carers of pre-schoolers and infant school aged children as part of the Multiply initiative.
Being a Carer
- 27 June to 25 July, Thursdays 5.30pm to 8pm, Earley CResCent Resource Centre and online via Zoom
- Free
- Apply here
This course, run by ASD Family Help, is designed to equip people with caring responsibilities to understand the importance of their own health, wellbeing, and sharing experiences with other carers in their community, for peer support, as well as other people in their lives. This course is for anyone in an unpaid caring role (caring for another adult or for your own children with SEND).
Sleep Matters
- 11 July, Monday 9.45am to 2.15pm, Earley CResCent Resource Centre
- Free course
- Apply here
This workshop is for parents, carers and practitioners with an interest in sleep difficulties in children and young people with SEND. The session will cover sleep issues, triggers and sleep associations as well as sleep strategies, tips and ideas to best support children/young people or family members. The course will be run by ASD Family Help.
Eligibility
You need to:
Live or work within the Wokingham Borough, or have a child attending a Wokingham school,
- AND be over 19 years old (as of 31st August 2022)
- AND have ordinarily been resident in the UK or EEA for at least 3 years. If you are an EEA National, you need to have obtained either pre-settled or settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.
All Ukrainian adults and their family members supported through the Ukraine Family Scheme and Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme are immediately eligible for courses and are exempt from the 3-year residency requirement.
Learners with a BN(O) visa are eligible to apply for Community Learning courses until 31 July 2023.
There are a number of other exemptions including those for some asylum seekers or refugees. Please email us or call 0778 5314 603 if you wish to discuss any exemptions further.
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