Skills Centre Courses.
Work Related.
Marketing Your Organisation
A two day course which will enable you to effectively
communicate with the media and promote your
organisation. You will learn how to write press
releases, take and format digital images and design
eye catching publicity.
Care Role Skills
This course is designed for anyone who is employed
or volunteering in the Care sector. It focuses on the
skills necessary to keep you and your customers safe
and healthy at work. On completion of the course you
can gain CIEH Level 2 Certificates in Food Safety and
Health Safety.
Safe, Healthy Cooking
An introduction to food safety and basic kitchen
management, practical catering skills, nutrition and
menu planning. Gain a CIEH Level 2 Food Safety
Certificate and a Certificate in Food Management and
Healthy Living. This course would be useful to those
employed or volunteering within the catering sector or
those who work with food in any other capacity
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This is a dynamic, interactive course which will help
you to ‘brush up’ on your numeracy and literacy skills
and explore strategies to enable you to effectivel
support your students. The course is inspiring, non
threatening and fun.
On successful completion you will have a CPD
portfolio packed with practical and fun ways to support
literacy and numeracy and have gained National Test
Certificates in Literacy and Numeracy Level 2.
Introduction to British Sign Language
Have you ever thought of learning British Sign
Language but wondered if it was the language for
you? 8 week introductory courses are available. They
are ideal for those who would like to try out BSL. This
course will give a friendly introduction to the
language, and no prior knowledge is necessary. A
course is also useful for anyone who would simply like
to learn some basic survival signs. By the end of the
course, you will be able to improve your
communication skills with Deaf people on a range of
topics that involve simple, everyday language.
ASDAN Certificate in Community Volunteering
This is a straightforward, nationally recognised
qualification for volunteers. It offers you the chance to
show the skills you have used and developed as a
volunteer and gain recognition for them.
The course is run as a series of 6 workshops
Assertiveness & Decision Making
The Assertiveness and Decision making course (Entry Level 3) runs for four weeks. It looks at the issues that affect our ability to be assertive and to make decisions. Tools are given to improve your skill in both areas.
Business Start Up
This course is for anyone setting up their own business
for the first time. Business concepts, market research
and financial and resource planning are all covered.
At the end of the course you will have a plan for your
business.
Digital Photography
If you want to improve your photographic skills this
course will teach you the basics of photo image capture.
We can teach you to set up and use digital cameras and
related materials and data. You will also gain an
understanding of how photographic work is prepared,
organised, carried out and concluded. The course will
also help you to improve your numeracy skills.
Introduction to Personal Safety
Think personal, think safety, think you. We are offering 2
awareness raising sessions:
Personal Safety at Work – Learn about how to reduce
the risks of becoming a victim of violence and
aggression in the workplace and how to maintain a safer
working environment.
Lone Working - This session will help you identify risks
relating to personal safety when lone working and
strategies for tracing lone workers and working alone.
ESOL, Literacy & Numeracy.
ESOL **
Would you like to improve your English to help you in
your life in the UK? We can help you with: Shopping, Work, School, Health.
EVENING CLASSES AVAILABLE.
Literacy **
Would you like to develop your reading and writing
skills? We can help you with writing letters, filling in
forms, reading between the lines and word processing
EVENING CLASSES AVAILABLE.
Numeracy **
Would you like to be more confident in real-life Maths?
We can help you with cooking - weights and measures,
making up a solution safely - ratios, knowing a bargain
- percentages, measuring - areas and volume.
EVENING CLASSES AVAILABLE
Financial Literacy
There has never been a more important time for
everyone to improve their financial capability. This
course will enable participants to gain the necessary
skills, knowledge and understanding to make informed
decisions and effective choices regarding their
finances.
Creative Writing
The aim of the course is to foster enjoyment, build
skills, stretch ways of working, set challenges & learn
techniques whilst introducing the writer to several
areas of writing practice.
**ESOL, Literacy and Numeracy courses run regularly and are available to join at any time.
IT.
IT Taster Sessions
These informal 2 hour sessions will introduce you to
using the Internet, how to set up an email account,
Word Processing and other software packages.
ITQ 1 and 2
ITQ 1
These informal 2 hour sessions will introduce you to
using the Internet, how to set up an email account,
Word Processing and other software packages.
ITQ 2
If you have already mastered basic IT skills, this
course will provide scope for you to improve and achieve
a higher level IT NVQ.
These courses run regularly and are available to join at
any time. EVENING CLASSES AVAILABLE.
Website Design
Are you new to Web design and want to learn how to
design and build simple websites using Dreamweaver
software?
This course will give you the skills needed to set up a
website.