Wokingham Borough Connect
There's a variety of Adult Education classes on offer over the next few weeks. From improving your IT skills to refreshing maths skills - there are classroom based courses and online courses available.
More details on all of our courses can be found on our website below - or you can come and talk to the Adult Education team at the Job Fair on Thursday 25 January at The Oakwood Centre in Woodley between 10.00am and 1.30pm.
Digital Skills for Beginners
- 25 January to 22 February, Thursdays 2pm to 4pm, Wokingham Library
- Free Course
- Apply here
Learn how to use a laptop, including accessing the internet and using email. Build confidence in your digital skills in a supportive environment. Suitable for complete beginners. There are also optional drop in sessions available as a follow on from this course for ongoing digital skills learning.
Learn with Lego
Various dates available for these free courses:
Learn how to use Lego with your children for more than building! Explore basic maths and gain confidence in using bricks to help your 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.
Money Management
- 19 February to 11 March, Mondays 6.30pm to 8.30pm, online via Zoom
- Free course
- Apply here
Would you like to improve your household budgeting? This course will support learners with understanding household spending and introduce the basics of how to make and manage a household budget. It will look at the value of planning in advance, consider typical spending habits as well as maths tools to help assess promotions and deals to calculate whether they are a true saving for you.
Excel at Budgeting
- 20 February, Tuesday 10am to 12pm, Wokingham Library
- Free course
- Apply here
Have you thought about using Excel for your own personal budgeting purposes? Learn how to manage what you spend against your income or budget using basic formatting and maths functions in Excel. This is aimed at people with a basic knowledge of using Excel.
Building your Confidence to get into Work or Volunteering
- 21 February to 13 March, Wednesdays 10.30am to 12pm
- Free course
- 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. Looking at job searching techniques, importance of CVs, application forms and interview preparation. 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.
Business Maths Essentials
- 21 February to 20 March, Wednesdays 6.30pm to 8.30pm, online via Zoom
- Free course
- Apply here
This course will support learners to understand the financial terms used in businesses. You will explore the different maths calculations used to determine financial information and look at key topics such as applying a discount or mark up on goods, different types of interest, fixed and variable costs and how this is captured in a business plan, as well as stock management within a business setting. This is suitable for anyone who may be starting up a new business, wishes to feel more confident with numbers used within business or those wishing to practice these skills for their day-to-day job, or to upskill to apply for a new job or voluntary role.
Introduction to Teaching Assistant Roles in Schools
- 22 February to 21 March, Thursdays 12.30pm to 2.30pm
- £40 - free to those on jobseeking benefits or low incomes
- 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.
Help with your Maths
- 22 February, Thursday 7pm to 8pm, online via Zoom
- Free course
- Apply here
Refresh the basic maths skills which are used in everyday life and work including fractions, percentages, ratios, probability, and lots more. The course will help you assess your current skill level and identify areas in which you can improve your maths skills further.
After an initial tutor led interactive session, you’ll have access to an online course which you can work through at your own pace and focus on areas you’d like to improve. The follow up session will be on 14 March, 7pm to 8pm, online via Zoom.
Understanding your Pay Slip
- 27 February and 5 March, Tuesdays, 10am to 12 noon, St Pauls Parish Rooms, Wokingham
- Free course
- Apply here
Do you understand everything that is on your payslip and what it all means? This course is designed to support learners with understanding the information provided on a pay slip including pay periods, National Insurance, and tax. It is a practical course which will look at the types of calculations used to help explain the deductions from the money that you earned.
Help your Child with Maths
- 27 February, Tuesday 7.30pm to 8.30pm, online via Zoom
- Free course
- Apply here
Refresh your own maths skills while gaining confidence in how to support your children with their own maths learning. Starting with an initial tutor led session, you’ll then have access to an online learning platform which covers school years 3 to 7 - you can choose which content is appropriate for yourself. The follow up session will be 12 March, 7:30pm to 8:30pm, online via Zoom.
Maths for the Workplace
- 27 February, Tuesday 7pm to 8pm, online via Zoom
- Free course
- Apply here
Refresh your basic work maths skills with our new online courses. Various available covering maths skills for specific industries including construction, health and social care, hair and beauty, business and administration, sport, and hospitality and catering.
After an initial tutor led interactive session, you’ll have access to an online course which you can work through at your own pace and focus on areas you’d like to improve. The follow up session will be on 12 March, 7pm to 8pm, online via Zoom.
Eligibility and costs
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To be eligible for Adult Education courses, 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 2023)
- AND be a UK or Irish citizen or a non-UK national with permission to live in the UK and have ordinarily been resident in the UK for at least 3 years
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 immediately.
There are a number of other exemptions including those for some asylum seekers or refugees. Please email us or call 0118 974 3797 if you wish to discuss any exemptions further.
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 (under £20,000). Please contact us with any queries around costs.
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