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Skills for Life and Family Learning Team

 Learn @ St. Anns, Burlington Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 9LX
 0161 343 8889

The Skills for Life and Family Learning Team are a friendly team of adult learning specialists who work across communities in Tameside in a number of venues, including schools, to help people develop their English, mathematics and spoken English language skills (ESOL).

We offer a variety of courses to meet the needs of our learners in community venues that are accessible and at times that fit in with the learners' other commitments. We work in partnership with community and voluntary agencies and with schools so that we can offer courses that reflect the interests and needs of local communities and that offer parents the skills to support their children.

We can help you to gain the skills for employment or to get yourself a better job. If you have not got GCSE English or Mathematics, we can offer you an equivalent nationally recognised qualification aimed exclusively at adults.

What can we do for you?

• We adapt provision according to local need
• We offer workshops and taught sessions in a variety of venues and at different times of the day and evening.
• We assess your current skills and advise you in your learning, guiding you on the correct level of Literacy and Numeracy to help you work towards the National Certificated in Adult Literacy and Numeracy level 1 and 2 (the equivalent to GCSE).
• Help you develop your skills for employment.
• Family learning - where you can learn alongside your children and develop the skills to support your children through SAT's and GCSEs.
• We can help you increase your confidence, realise your potential and develop your personal skills.

The way we work

• We first talk to you about what you want or need to learn
• We then assess your current skills in a way which suits you.
• We then develop an individual learning plan. This is done with you and your tutor together.
• Your course of learning starts.
• Whilst you are on your course your learning is discussed with you on a regular basis with your tutor so that both you and your tutor know where you are in your learning.

What courses are on offer?

The following courses are offered for Free:

• Driving theory preparation - A computer based package to help you develop skills. This is an excellent course for helping to improve English language skills.
  
  
• Move on! - Brush up your English and Maths skills and achieve a Level 2 National Certificate in Adult Literacy or Numeracy (equivalent to GCSE).
  
  
• Volunteer Readers - Support your child's reading and be able to offer your services in school.
  
  
• Community Volunteering - Develop skills in volunteering for working with voluntary organisations.
  
  
• Imperial to Metric - Conversions made easy. Helps you develop measuring accuracy for DIY, cooking, shopping and supporting your child's learning.
  
  
• Literacy Workshop - Update your skills in writing and reading and improve your spelling, punctuation and grammar.
  
  
• Numeracy Workshop - Update your skills in numeracy to improve your accuracy and confidence in using numbers.
  
  
• English language sessions (ESOL) - Improve your conversation, reading and writing in English. Based on everyday language used at the doctors, schools and in shops.
  
  
• Skills for work - Improve your job prospects and enhance your C.V. We can help you with application forms, application letters, personal statements and interview techniques.
  
  
• Keeping up with the kids! - We work with parents of children aged 0-16. Call us to see what we are doing at your child's school. We can help you to become a School Governor giving you confidence and understanding of the requirements of the role.
  
  
• Personal Skills - Confidence building and assertiveness. Managing stress. Committee Skills. Presentation Skills. Women-only classes
  
  
• Healthy Living - Calorie counting and developing awareness of how to live a healthier lifestyle.

For more information about our service contact our Student Support Services on 0161 343 8899/Mobile: 07974 111 676 (Gillian Rees) or ring the Skills for Life and Family Learning Team on 0161 343 8889.

Our courses are Fun, Free and Forever!

Learning can be fun and Lifelong