Adult education
Spring 2024
We are delighted to be relaunching our programme of adult education for January 2024! We have been working hard to refresh the programme ready for the centenary of Henry Morris’ appointment as Chief Education Officer in Cambridge. Morris wrote his famous memorandum in 1924 which led to the founding of the Village Colleges. Morris referred to ‘raising the school leaving age to 90’ , and placing the College ‘as the community centre of the neighbourhood’. We are delighted to be opening our doors again to the community and beginning to relaunch our offer.
In line with our ethos as an IB World School, our programme for the spring focuses largely on language learning, with classes in French, Portuguese, Mandarin and Italian. We will be continuing to offer pottery, yoga, ballroom dancing and adding in classes in upholstery and resin. In addition to these courses, we will be running heavily subsidised ESOL classes and functional skills maths classes.
Our classes are run by enthusiastic and experienced teachers and we are very excited to offer a unique opportunity within Cambridgeshire for families to join classes together. The programme will be open to ‘parent/carer and child’ options, where children aged 14+ will be able attend classes accompanied by their parent/carer for 50% of the full cost.
The full list of classes, days and times are here:
Creative
- NEW Indian Cookery (Mondays 6.30–8.30pm)
- NEW Indian Cookery (Wednesdays 6.30–8.30pm)
- Pottery: Beginners (Mondays 7.00-9.00pm)
- Pottery: Improvers (Wednesdays 7.00-9.00pm)
- Ballroom Dancing: Beginners (Wednesdays 8.00-9.00pm)
- Ballroom Dancing: Improvers (Wednesdays 7.00-8.00pm)
- Resin Coasters - Course 1
- Resin River Plaques - Course 2
Languages
- Portuguese for Beginners (Thursday 6.00-7.15pm)
- French for Beginners (Thursday 7.30-8.45pm)
- Mandarin for Beginners (Tuesday 6.00-7.15pm)
- Italian for Beginners (Monday 7.30pm-8.45pm)
Community Access (subsidised courses)
- English for speakers of other languages (ESOL)- Level 1 (Monday 6.00-7.15pm)
- Functional Skills Maths Level 2- preparing for Level 2/GCSE (Wednesday 6.00-7.15pm)
We are always looking to expand the programme and are keen to add more classes from April 2024. If you would be interested in running a class, please contact