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Essential Skills are the fundamental skills we all need to be successful at work and in life.
Our courses will help you to improve your communication, number, ICT, and organisational skills, to empower you to be more effective in both your personal and professional lives. Our tutors will help you learn at your own pace, practise using the skills you learn in everyday situations, and gain qualifications that employers will recognise. Courses are suitable for all ability levels. However before you can enrol onto a course, you need to complete an initial assessment. This will help us to find the right course for your skill level. To book your initial assessment, please email enquiries@lecb.ac.uk confirming your name and contact telephone number and a member of staff will contact you. Alternatively, you can call us on 020 3045 5176. |
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Essential Skills Courses
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DIGITAL SKILLS
Having good digital skills is essential to access services, look for jobs, get into employment, progress in the workplace and for daily life today.
Our digital skills courses will equip you for the digital world at home, for work and study. You will develop your skills and be able gain a qualification.
Our digital skills courses will equip you for the digital world at home, for work and study. You will develop your skills and be able gain a qualification.
EnglisH & MATHS
Many adults feel quite anxious about starting an English or Maths course. Because of this, we offer a variety of ways of learning and aim to build your
confidence and English & Maths skills in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Our courses can help you gain the skills required for employment, for continuing professional development, for further studies as well as for day to day life.
We offer:
confidence and English & Maths skills in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Our courses can help you gain the skills required for employment, for continuing professional development, for further studies as well as for day to day life.
We offer:
- Entry levels to Level 2 - Functional Skills English and Maths: courses for adults that cover essential skills & linking to real-life English and Maths.
- GCSE English Language and GCSE Mathematics: these courses will help you gain a place on a university course and improve your job prospects.
- Literacy, Numeracy, Skills Building and Build your Confidence courses: these courses will help you to start your journey in acquiring English and Maths skills or develop your skills further and prepare you for joining a course leading to a qualification.
ENGLISH FOR SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES (ESOL)
Our ESOL courses from Pre-Entry to Level 2 will support you to gain the English language skills you need to live and work in the UK and feel a part of your local community.
If you are settling or living in England, your first language is not English and you want to improve your listening, speaking, reading and writing, then these courses are for you. All our courses cover grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, reading, writing, speaking and listening skills development.
Our Speaking & Listening, Reading and Writing courses lead to a nationally recognised qualification. We offer skills building courses, which prepare you for joining a course leading to a qualification if you are in-between levels or help you to improve certain skills.
In addition, you can join Maths and ICT courses specifically aimed for ESOL learners, which will lead you to a nationally recognised qualification, or our Book Club which will help you to develop reading, communication skills and improve grammar.
Getting on the right ESOL level:
If you are settling or living in England, your first language is not English and you want to improve your listening, speaking, reading and writing, then these courses are for you. All our courses cover grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, reading, writing, speaking and listening skills development.
Our Speaking & Listening, Reading and Writing courses lead to a nationally recognised qualification. We offer skills building courses, which prepare you for joining a course leading to a qualification if you are in-between levels or help you to improve certain skills.
In addition, you can join Maths and ICT courses specifically aimed for ESOL learners, which will lead you to a nationally recognised qualification, or our Book Club which will help you to develop reading, communication skills and improve grammar.
Getting on the right ESOL level:
- ESOL Pre-Entry: You cannot speak English, or you can speak a little English but cannot read or write in English very well.
- ESOL Entry 1: You can understand some English and can give a limited basic information verbally and in writing.
- ESOL Entry 2: You can speak and write basic everyday English.
- ESOL Entry 3: You have a wider range of vocabulary, feeling comfortable in many situations and use English structures with some accuracy and fluency.
- ESOL Level 1: You can communicate effectively and fluently in most everyday situations; you are able to take part in discussions and write with greater accuracy.
- ESOL Level 2: Your spoken and written language are like that of a native speaker, but you may still struggle with sounding like a native speaker and effectively applying some grammar aspects, colloquial phrases and specialist vocabulary needed at work.
MULTIPLY
Multiply is a new government-funded programme to help adults across the UK improve their numeracy skills. If you’re a London resident, aged 19+ and do not already have a GCSE at grade C (or equivalent) in maths, Multiply is available to you.
Whether you are looking to boost your numeracy skills to progress at work or to help with daily tasks, our Multiply courses are here to help you.
Manage your money and learn how to budget with:
Increase confidence with numbers and boost your maths skills to prepare for progression at work with:
Take the first steps towards formal numeracy qualification with:
Increase your maths skills in order to support your children with their maths homework with:
Improve your maths skills in order to progress to further study or training with:
Whether you are looking to boost your numeracy skills to progress at work or to help with daily tasks, our Multiply courses are here to help you.
Manage your money and learn how to budget with:
- Budgeting
- Money Matters
Increase confidence with numbers and boost your maths skills to prepare for progression at work with:
- Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
- Data, Data, Everywhere
- Multiplication and Division
Take the first steps towards formal numeracy qualification with:
- Build you confidence for Maths
- Numeracy
Increase your maths skills in order to support your children with their maths homework with:
- Maths for Parents
- Family Maths games
Improve your maths skills in order to progress to further study or training with:
- Build your confidence for GCSE
- Specific maths units for Vocational qualifications
