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Our fast-track English and maths GCSE courses will be starting again this September from our centres in Aylesbury and High Wycombe. If you are interested in joining an English or maths GCSE course, you will need to first complete an ARE YOU READY FOR GCSE? assessment. This will be made up of online tasks and, […]
If you need to achieve a Functional Skills Level 1 or Level 2 this summer, then our intensive course could be just what you’re looking for. Find out more here
Visit our website on Thursday 9 July when we will launch our programme of Summer Schools for August 2020. We have a wide range of online and face-to-face classes in a variety of subjects including: Creative Writing, Drawing and Painting, First Aid, French, Gardening, Italian, Pottery, Pilates, Sign Language, Stained and Fused Glass, Yoga and […]
We have set up an Online Art Exhibition to showcase the excellent work our learners have created this year and during lockdown through online learning. Please do send in any photos of your work and we will add it to the exhibition. Please send the photos (with your name and course code) to: bucksadultlearningmarketing@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
Learners from our sewing courses at Highcrest Adult Learning Centre have been busy supporting health workers by making laundry bags, headbands and knitted hearts for Covid-19 patients. The knitted and crochet hearts are given to families separated by restrictions to hospital visiting during the covid crisis, one heart is given to the patient in hospital […]
Sadly, due to Covid-19 we have had to postpone the annual Adult Learning Awards celebration. We still hope to be able to do something in October to celebrate those who have really gone above and beyond this academic year. If you feel that your tutor, LSA, Assessor or Volunteer deserves to be recognised for their […]
English tutor Nick Andrews worked with other staff to create a wonderful collection of writing by some of his learners this year. Precious writes about her job as a carer during the Covid outbreak, another learner describes working in a supermarket. Elizabe describes the lower Alentejo region of Portugal in a brooding and evocative style. […]
We are conducting a survey with our previous learners to find out the value that Buckinghamshire Adult Learning has given them and how they have benefitted from their course. If you are current learner with us, you will be asked to to complete an end of course survey but if you would also like to […]
We are pleased to be able to offer you a programme of online and face-to-face, short courses this August. These courses include Indian Cookery, French for Beginners (Intensive), Drawing and Painting, Yoga and Yoga with Alexander Technique, Pilates , Pottery and Tai Chi. Missenden Abbey Walled Garden is due to open in early July and has agreed that we can offer our […]
A blended course of online and face-to-face sessions If you need to achieve English Functional Skills Level 1 or Level 2 this summer, then our intensive course could be just what you’re looking for. The course runs over four weeks from week commencing 3 August to week ending 28 August. It is free for learners […]