Courses for Learners with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities

Our Arts and Crafts courses allow our learners to discover different types of arts and crafts, including:

• Drawing
• Painting
• Printing
• Sewing
• Creating collages
• Making Models

Our pottery course teaches learners how to create their own pottery artwork, by allowing them to discover how to:

• Construct 3D forms from clay and create a range of projects. These include looking at slab pottery, adding texture, and using different tools.
• Be creative with textiles, making cushion designs, pencil cases and aprons.
• Use recycled and found materials to make new works of art including art for garden and picture frames for the house.
• Use paintings and drawings to research and complement the work and then filling a sketchbook with ideas.

This course will benefit people who are creative and enjoy expressing themselves through art using different materials and methods. They will enjoy trying new techniques in different styles to produce a range of creative products.

Learners will learn how to:
. Draw to sketch their ideas using paintings inspired by artists and art movements
. Collage - use patterned papers they have made to create art 
. Printing - explore a variety of techniques such as creating their own printing block
. Pottery - use clay to make practical or decorative items
. Sewing simple craft projects 
. Models from paper mache.
. Learn about famous artists and use their work to inspire their own ideas. 
. Research and design a sketchbook which they can take home

All materials are provided.

Our Music and Sing course teaches learners how to read the music by following simple instructions. If they would like to, they will be encouraged to perform in front of an audience. This course also teaches learners about beats and rhythm by playing percussion instruments such as:

• Tambourine
• Drums
• Maracas

This course will benefit people who are creative and enjoy expressing themselves through words, story and performance. They will enjoy trying new techniques in different styles to produce a range of creative pieces. 

Learners will learn how to: 
. Share their thoughts, feelings and opinions with their peers to write/create a story and others in a safe and supportive environment
. Work as part of a team, listening to each other, taking turns and respecting the thoughts and feelings of others
. Feel more confident in expressing their experiences and the importance of them.
. Create and perform stories in different dramatic styles to an audience.

This course is for learners who enjoy being outside and being outside. 

Learners will learn how to:
. Identify 7 garden tools and use these safely
. Identify weeds in the garden and how to remove them manually
. Make compost
. Work in a way which encourages wildlife.
Grow vegetables and plants from seed using a vegetable grid. Possible options include beans, beetroot, carrots, lettuce, radish, cucumbers, marrows, courgettes, potatoes, kale, spring onion.

Our Literacy and Numeracy for Independence teaches our learners how to:

• Add and take away money and check change
• Write a simple sentence with good spelling
• Read from newspapers, magazines, books, and letters
• Take part in discussions and activities to learn more maths and English
• Learn how to be safe when using a computer to search on the internet

The course will benefit people who would like to build their confidence in budgeting skills and handling money when they are paying for goods and services. There will be no examinations in this course.

On this course, learners will learn how to:

. Add and subtract money and check change
. Budget and to keep within a spending limit
. Work out the unit cost of products
. Identify how to shop effectively on a budget.
. Explore offers online and how to stay safe when searching the internet.

Our Enterprise Skill course gives learners the exciting challenge of working with a team to plan, design, and sell a product. At the end of the course, all products will be donated to a charity of the group’s choice. This course explores how to:

• Work successfully within a team
• Share ideas within a group environment
• Use the computer safely for research
• Identify the resources needed for the product
• Use math to calculate the costs needed for the product
• Market and sell the finished product
• Review what went well and what changes would be made next time

We meet all new students to make sure that our courses are right for them.

We like to meet all new students to make sure our courses are right for them. Please call our Enrolment Advisors on 0116 454 1900 and ask to speak to the LLDD curriculum team.