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Community Learning Courses
Community Learning Trafford (CLT), now part of Trafford College, aim to offer high quality courses for adults and families in Trafford. Courses are delivered in a friendly and comfortable atmosphere with qualified tutors who have had experience of teaching adults in local communities.
What kind of courses are available?
Free Adult Courses - free courses are available for those adults who have few or no qualifications under our First Steps programme funded by the Learning and Skills Council. These courses are available to adults with less than 5 GCSEs at grades A-C or equivalent.
These courses are for adults who want to get back into learning. They aim to help give you the confidence to increase your skills and move forward with your own personal development. Courses take place over six weeks and include:
- Beginners' computing
- Digital photography
- Money magic
- Healthy eating
- Arts and crafts courses
Open access courses for adults - courses are also available for all adults, whatever their qualifications, in a number of community venues. Courses generally take place over 10 weeks and cost £40. A remission policy is in place for those adults on certain means tested benefits. The courses include:
- Beginners digital photography
- Cake decorating
- Jewellery making
- Spanish
Family Learning Courses - these courses give you the opportunity to learn together with your child and to develop the confidence and skills to support your child through their education. Courses include:
- Keeping Up With the Children
- Playing with Language
- Family Literacy and Numeracy
- Early Start
- Toddler Gym
- Family ICT
Learner support
Are there issues which are preventing you from learning? We may be able to help you:
- Most family learning courses and some adult courses come with creche provision.
- Where appropriate we may be able to provide language support and will consider translations into other community languages.
- Our courses take place in accessible locations and wherever possible we will give tutors additional class support or specialist facilities. If necessary a group can be moved to a more user-friendly venue.
- We can provide paperwork in Braille or community languages or provide any additional equipment you may require.
- If you have a disability we will make reasonable adjustments to help you succeed in your learning such as provide a signer in your class or a portable hearing loop.
- Adults with learning difficulties are welcome to all our courses and can call on a learning mentor or support worker if needed.
Our partners
We have worked with a number of groups to provide tailored courses specific to their needs. These include:
- Sale Moor Community Learning Centre
- Sale West Community Centre
- Bluesci
- Afro-Caribbean Mental Health Group
- St John's Centre
- Trafford Carers Group
- Family Centres
- CDI
- Children's Centres
- Libraries
- Schools
How to book a course
For further information or to book on a course, please contact:
Community Learning Trafford
Room 155
Trafford College
Talbot Road
Stretford
M32 0XH
Email: natalie.gibson@trafford.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 886 7444
This page was last reviewed on 24 September 2009
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