A six-week course aimed to enhance your personal, social, as well as your living skills, by providing you with all the knowledge and abilities required to help you live as comfortably and happily as possible.
Who is the course aimed at?
The course is aimed at Staffordshire residents aged 19+ who live in a Staffordshire not Stoke-on-Trent postcode. The course aims to encourage learners to develop their key skills to help them to be more independent in everyday life.
Entry Requirements
There are no entry requirements but learners should be prepared to try new things and learn in different environments. Potential learners must be willing to commit to all course sessions and be willing to work towards the course learning aims and complete a learner journal.
Course Content
This course will cover developing self-awareness and skills to live independently – travel training, how to use bus and train timetables, use of technology – online shopping, understanding bills and what you are paying for, how to install and use online apps – such as booking online hospital and doctors’ appointments. Explore one-pot cooking, healthy eating on a budget and how to look after yourself. The course will aim to promote your self-confidence and communication skills. The course is underpinned by the Five Ways to Well Being to encourage and promote your own well-being and personal development.
Learning Methods
Face to face learning in a classroom or outdoor learning environment, using a variety of learning styles and activities by a friendly and experienced tutor.
Learner Support
Learning support is offered throughout the course to meet learners’ needs, whether it be a scribe, a reading pen, an Ipad or a person to build confidence and point learners in the right direction. Sessions ensure your tutor can provide you with the help and support you need to enable you to confidently access the class learning materials. Individual specific needs will be discussed at the start of the course.
Course assessment
Learners will be reviewed at the start, middle and end of the course. Learners will be given the opportunity each week to review their learning and identify where they may need extra support to enable their full participation and enjoyment of their course or to pursue additional areas of interest.
Course Materials
Please bring yourself, appropriate clothing for the course you will be participating in and a packed lunch. All materials needed for the course will be supplied.
What can learners do next/progress onto?
Learners can progress onto any listed course at UMRA: Gardening with Seasons, English for the Workplace, Cooking with Numbers and Live Well for Less, Wonderful Woodwork and Tree science, Volunteering and You. Outside of UMRA learners could progress onto any Multiply or Community Learning programmes.
Dates and times
08/01/2024 – 12/02/2024, 10am-3pm, Mondays
Where?
Upper Moreton Farm, Wolseley Bridge, Stafford, ST18 0XD
Are there any fees?
There are no course fees.
Who delivers this course?
Upper Moreton Rural Activities
How to enrol on this course and find out more?
Open to all, potential learners will be invited to a taster session to assess suitability to the programme.
Carol Carney
Telephone 07814 237211
