Transcript Children`s Centres - Community Learning in Kirklees

Workers’ Educational
Association
Yorkshire & Humber Region
• National adult education charity
• Funded by SFA, Local Authorities,
funding bodies, donations
• Voluntary membership organisation
•Social purpose education
WEA work in Y&H region in partnership
• Local community centres
eg Ravensthorpe, Crosland Moor, Hill House
• Schools
eg Cawley Lane, Birkby Infants, Reinwood, Crow
Lane, Fixby J&I
•Children’s Centres
eg Batley East and Central, Rawthorpe, Dewsbury
Moor, Chickenley & Earlsheaton, Savile Town
• Workplace providers and Trade unions
• Museums and Libraries
Priorities
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Below level 2 qualifications
Disadvantaged post code areas
In receipt of means tested benefits
Mental health/ disability issues
BME communities
Progress to lit/ num/ accreditation
Building profile of social purpose education
Developing volunteers and learning champions
WEA deliver a wide variety of adult education
engagement courses in Y&H region, usually
short and unaccredited:
• Family learning
e.g., Practical Parent Helpers, Crafts for
Families, Helping in Schools NCFE L2
• Arts & crafts
e.g. Mehndi, sewing, banner making
• Health & wellbeing
e.g. Aromatherapy, Personal Well Being,
Reflexology
Skills for Life in WEA
Offer free courses to eligible learners:
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• ESOL
All accredited:
• Entry 1 to 3 City & Guilds
• Level 1 & 2 OCR
Course length usually 20 – 40 hours per
term
Skills for Life in WEA
Courses currently offered in Kirklees at:
 Staincliffe Children’s Centre, Batley: Literacy
 Batley Children’s Centre: Literacy &
Numeracy
 Ravensthorpe Community Centre,
Dewsbury: Literacy & Numeracy
 Support to Recovery, Dewsbury: Literacy
 Crosland Moor Community Centre, Hudd:
Literacy
 Birkby Infants, Hudd: Numeracy
Skills for Life in WEA
ESOL courses currently offered in Kirklees at:
• Hillhouse Community Resource Centre,
Birkby
• Reinwood Infants, Huddersfield
• Cawley Lane Junior School, Heckmondwike
• Taleem Centre, Dewsbury
• Crossland Moor Children’s Centre (January)
• Soothilll Coomunity Centre (November)
• Batley Central Children’s Centre
(November)
‘ACTION for ESOL’ PROTEST
Parkinson Lane School, Halifax
They say cut
back, we say
FIGHT
BACK!!!
What Learners Did
Organised a protest against the ESOL
Funding Cuts:
• Learnt about the issues
• Wrote to their MP
• Organised a Protest
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‘real life’ opportunity to practise English
chance for collaborative group learning
autonomy
independence
CONFIDENCE
knowledge that they can make a difference
(Government U-turn)
‘ACTION for ESOL’ PROTEST
Parkinson Lane School, Halifax
They say cut
back, we say
FIGHT
BACK!!!
Contacts
• Dory Glynn
Organiser (Skills for Life) & South Kirklees
T: 01422 884 018
M: 07966 254 324 E: [email protected]
• Rose Farrar
Organiser (Family Learning) & North Kirklees
M: 07880 565 459 E: [email protected]