Unison suggests: Could you be a Catton Grove/Mile Cross Community Learning Champion (CLC)?

Are you looking for a rewarding voluntary opportunity in your local community?

Community Learning Champions are volunteers who inspire and support friends, neighbours, relatives and other people across their communities to find out about and take up learning opportunities.

 

 

What sort of things could a Champion do?

v  Inspire and support others to take up learning

v  Tell people about learning opportunities and support them to try something new.

v  Help to set up new informal learning groups in their area.

 

 

You will get the opportunity to:

v  Attend free training that could lead to a qualification

v  Gain skills and experience

v  Increase your confidence and knowledge

v  Find new friends and have the satisfaction of helping others.

 

We are building a team of volunteers to work in the Catton Grove and Mile Cross areas. If you’d like to talk to us about joining the team please email: communitychampsnorwich@gmail.com or call: 

Angela on: 07427 695160 or Rosa on: 07803 136122.

 

 

Winner of the NIACE 2011 National Community Learning Champions Award          

 

 

 

 

Unison suggests: Coursea

Coursea: Free Online Courses

Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer free courses online for anyone to take. Watch online lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises.  Available courses include: social network analysis, The Law of the European Union, Foundations of Teaching for Learning and  Introduction to Guitar plus many more.

 

Check it out the website here and start learning.

Join the Community Gardening Project at County Hall

Community Gardening Project

 

 

UNISON Lifelong Learning will be launching a community garden at County Hall at the end of July. The site will be available for Norfolk County Council staff to use to grow their own fruits, vegetables and flowers before work, during their lunch break and after work.  Unison hopes this project will provide staff with a green space where they can learn to grow their own produce, promote staff wellbeing and increase positive interaction between members of the workforce. Spaces in the community garden are limited and will be allocated to staff via a sign up list. You do not have to be a UNISON member to take part.

 

We need your old gardening tools. Please donate.

 

To make sure this project is a success UNISON is requesting donations of gardening tools, plants and seeds to give our new gardeners the best possible start.

To sign up or to donate to the project please contact Melissa Brown UNISON lifelong learning project worker at melissabrown.unison@btconnect.com or on 07717517564.

 

Unison Courses: Bicycle Maintenance and Safe Cycle Training

On Saturday August 3^rd in partnership with UNISON lifelong learning Bicycle Links will be running a two hour bicycle maintenance course from 14:00-16:00.  This course is suitable for anyone that wants a better understanding of their bike and how to keep it in good working order.  The course will cover maintenance of tyres, wheels, brakes and gears.  No previous experience working on bikes is necessary. The course will be held at the Bicycle Links’ worksite at 18 St Mary’s Works, Duke Street, Norwich, NR3 1QA. The cost of the course is £12 per person for the full two hour session.

On Tuesday August 6^th from 13:00-14:00, we will also be offering safe cycling training at County Hall and the surrounding streets. The course will be led by qualified a National Instructor trainer.  It aims to help build confidence about riding a bike or riding on the road for inexperienced bike owners. The cost of the session is £6 per person.

 

 

Places are limited, book early to avoid disappointment. To book onto either course or for more information please contact Melissa Brown UNISON lifelong learning project worker at melissabrown.unison@btconnect.com or on 07717517564.

 

 

 

 

Unison Suggests: Human Library Drop-In Event

Human Library Drop-in Event

Thursday 25^th July, 11am-2pm

Wensum Lodge, King St, Norwich. NR1 1QW

Don’t Judge Books by their Covers

 

 

In a Human Library, ‘Books’ are people who are prepared to use their personal experience to challenge stereotypes and prejudice. Come along and listen to a fascinating group of Human Library ‘Books’ telling their ‘stories’.

Where?

Wensum Lodge Reception, King Street, Norwich. NR1 1QW

When?

Thursday 25^th July, 11am-2pm

Please note: Only suitable for people aged 16 and over.

For further information, either, go to the event blog at 

http://howeychoice.blogspot.co.uk/?m=0

 

Unison suggests: Improving your English

Many people do not feel confident with their reading and writing skills. Improving this can be as simple as watching a few videos online.

 

 

English teacher Emma

5 tips to improve your writing

English Lessons for u

 

Tenses in English - Future or Present Continuous

 

Chris McKenna's Creative Writing lessons.

 

 

Creative Writing. Lesson1: Getting started

Unison suggests: Camp Nanowrimo-Write a book in the month of July

Based on November’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), Camp NaNoWriMo provides the online support, tracking tools, and hard deadline to help you write the rough draft of your novel in a month… other than November!

Camp NaNoWriMo was established in 2011 as a project of the Office of Letters and Light, the parent 501(c)(3) nonprofit to National Novel Writing Month and the Young Writers Program. 2013 Camp sessions will take place in April and July.

What: Writing a novel from scratch in one month’s time.

Who: You! (And about 20,000 other novelists around the world.) Let’s write some perhaps-awful, but definitely lengthy, prose together.

Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era’s most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from our novels at parties.

When: You can sign up anytime to add your name to the roster. Writing begins at 12:00 AM on April 1, and again on July 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach your word-count goal by 11:59 PM on the last day of the month. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins.

The Rules:

Write a 50,000-word (or longer!) novel in July.

Start from scratch. None of your own previously written prose can be included in your Camp NaNoWriMo draft (though outlines, character sketches, and research are all fine, as are citations from other people’s works).

Write a novel. We define a novel as a lengthy work of fiction. If you consider the book you’re writing a novel, we consider it a novel too!

Be the sole author of your novel. Apart from those citations mentioned two bullet-points up.

Write more than one word repeated 50,000 times.

You can be inspired by list of published NaNoWriMo authors here: http://nanowrimo.org/publishedwrimos/.

Good luck and have fun writing!