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Positive feedback from our online learners
Even during lockdown, learners are enjoying our courses and staying in touch. We have recently moved many of our classes online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. New and returning learners have been logging in to our new Google Classrooms and working together....
Council apprentice shines
We have had some outstanding feedback about one of our apprentices currently working for Trading Standards and Environmental Health at Gateshead Council. Evelina Saliapina has been working as a Level 2 Business Admin apprentice for seven months and has gone above and...
Learner helps learningSkills team deliver free school meals
As our learners are staying at home during lockdown, some of the learningSkills team have been busy delivering 'free school meal' supplies. One of our learners, Lewis Walton, has been helping tutors within the Learning Difficulty and Disablities Team to send these...
Learners enjoy online courses during lockdown.
Due to the Government's advice on social distancing we have moved many of our courses online. This has not affected how much our learners enjoy these courses. Chris Myhill has moved her Family History course from Bensham Grove onto Outlook Groups. The Family through...
Online Laptop Learners celebrate VE day
Our learners have worked together online to produce some excellent work celebrating the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. Learners on the Online Laptop course have been celebrating VE Day by using their new skills to create posters. They have searched...
Deaf Awareness Week 4-10 May 2020
It's Deaf Awareness Week this week and many of our learners are researching ways in which they can raise awareness while staying at home. Deaf Awareness Week aims to raise awareness of hearing loss and deafness across the UK. The theme for 2020 is acquired deafness....
School apprentice shows promise
A young apprentice in an Early Years school has received wonderful feedback from her employer for working hard at her apprenticeship, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with school closures, the apprentices within School Workforce Development are...
The FEEL Meditation
Most of us go through life trying to get away/distracting ourselves from difficult emotions. Let's face it - who wants to feel anxiety, fear, anger, frustration? No one! The thing is emotions want to be felt. They need to be felt. They...
The learningSkills team respond to COVID-19 within the community
We’ve had some wonderful examples of how members of the learningSkills team have volunteered to help those affected by COVID-19. Victoria Lappin and Lucie Glanville have volunteered with the Virtual Wellbeing Call Centre. The Gateshead Council Virtual Wellbeing Call...