News

Visit by Permanent Secretary to Work Based learning

The top Civil Servant from the newly formed Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, Ian Watmore visited the LB Waltham Forest Community Learning and Skills Service (CLaSS) on Tuesday 26 February.

Find out more about the visit here.

Obituary

We would like to remember Zainab Ibrahim who died on Sunday, February 17th. Zainab had been teaching ESOL with CLaSS since January 2006. She was a warm, lively person whose infectious enthusiasm and lively teaching endeared her to both learners and lecturers alike. Zainab had, as usual, been teaching at The Link on Saturday, February 16th and had been looking forward both to her daughter returning from a school trip on the Sunday and to a well-earned rest during half-term.

Zainab is survived by her husband and four children, the youngest of whom is still at school. Our thoughts are with her husband and four children.

Childcare financial support while you study – for parents on low-income

The Childcare Affordability Programme (CAP) is funded by the London Development Agency. This programme provides parents on low-income access to flexible quality childcare whilst they are attending a training course that will improve work skills or employment prospects. Each application is assessed against certain criteria. Successful applicant’s childcare costs are either subsidized or paid in full to the childcare provider. This funding is available until the end of 2008.

For further information about this financial support programme, please contact The Children Information Service on 020 8496 3565/6.

Entry to Employment (E2E)

Are you aged 16 – 18? Have you decided what you job or training you want to take up?

If you haven’t decided yet, come along and find out more about our Entry to Employment (E2E) programme. You can try out a range of ‘tasters’ in different subjects, have a work placement to get some experience of working life and get qualifications in English and Maths if you don’t have them already.

The programme is for at least 16 hours each week and lasts for a minimum of 16 weeks. It can go on for longer if you need more time. At the end of the programme, you will have advice and support to help you to move on to work, an Apprenticeship programme or other training.

Contact Farook Looch on 020 8520 9430 or speak to your Connexions adviser to make an appointment

Waltham Forest Libraries

Are you making best use of Waltham Forest Libraries? There are ten libraries across Waltham Forest which stock a wide selection of fiction and non-fiction books as well as DVDs and CDs. Membership is free to all, with one form of identification being required to join. You can take out up to 15 items on loan at any one time.

Find out more about library facilities here.

Events

'My Endz' Project

'My Endz' is a training project held at Leyton Cyber Link in partnership with CLaSS, with further support from London & Quadrant and Team Leyton. Leyton Cyber Link is part of the Better Neighbourhoods Initiative.

The training was in Digital Photography & Photoshop and over 30 pieces of artwork have been professionally printed and mounted. CLaSS tutor Emma Barnard, an established artist in her own right, taught the course. The exhibition is being curated and organised by Emma, and Jane Brueseke, the Cyber Link project officer.

Find out more about the project here.

CLaSS Celebration of Achievement Event

The CLaSS annual celebration of achievement evening for over 350 learners and their families was held at the Walthamstow Assembly Hall on Wednesday 6th February 2008.

Angela Eusebe, a learner who has attended Family Learning and other classes spoke eloquently about the support that CLaSS had given her, which meant that she had achieved so much and she urged everybody to join a course and continue learning.

Find out more about the Celebration of achievement here.