Courses for adults with learning difficulties and disabilities
CALAT has an exciting range of courses to help you work towards employment and gain qualifications, develop English, maths and creativity skills and improve your wellbeing. You’ll also make new friends and have lots of fun!
We offer courses in four areas:
This course is suitable for beginners and those with more experience, who would like to express their creativity through the art of making mosaics. Learn about colour, shape, pattern and sequence through mosaic making, and create personal mosaic projects over a longer period of time, using a range of tiles and textures – ceramic, glass, and recycled items in a workshop environment.
You will learn:
You will:
To be considered for this course you must be able to:
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Strand House
This course is for people who enjoy listening to music and would like to either sing or take part on group music-making (with voice, action or percussion).
You will:
You need no musical skill. But you need an interest in music (any type at all). We work together. An ability to use words and your voice to express is preferable, but this is a safe and comfortable learning environment and you will never be made to feel uncomfortable or be put on the spot to perform to the tutor, your classmates or to an audience. You can, should you wish, simply come along and participate in the group.
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Strand House
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Strand House
This course is for learners who would like to improve their fitness, health and wellbeing, learn more about their environment, become more confident and have fun.
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Croydon Clocktower
This course is for learners who would like to explore a wide variety of art works using different materials and techniques. Suitable for beginners and more experienced learners. Create individual artworks and work as part of a team to make a group project. Learn about different artists. Experiment with techniques such as painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, waxed papers, mindfulness in art making. Use your imagination to express yourself through a range of creative activities.
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Strand House
This course is for learners who want to get fit and have fun along the way.
To be considered for this course you, you must be able to:
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Strand House
This course is for learners who would like to explore using colour, shape and pattern with fabric, suitable for beginners and the more experienced. Learners will experiment with dyes, different print techniques, stitch, and decorative elements to create personal textile projects. Use your imagination and develop your ideas to create useful textile items and decorative art pieces.
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Strand House
This course is for learners who want to improve their confidence in managing their mental wellbeing for a healthy lifestyle.
This course is open to all learners
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
New Addington
This course is for learners who want to improve their confidence in managing their physical wellbeing for a healthy lifestyle.
This course is open to all learners
The course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
New Addington
Learners who would like to make friends, get fit, be creative and have fun by dancing with others
This course is open to all learners
The course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
New Addington
This course, suitable for all levels, is for learners who would like to improve their mental and physical wellbeing and health through gentle movements, stretching and breathing exercises. You will become more aware of your body, and work at your own pace to develop strength, flexibility and co-ordination. This short course during the summer months and lighter evenings will help you relax at the end of the day and refresh you for the following week.
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Strand House
This course is for learners that want to learn the art of nail painting!
To be considered for this course you, you must be able to:
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Strand House
This course is for learners who enjoy making and creating puzzles.
You will develop better memory skills and remember shapes, colours, positions to complete each puzzle you choose.
To be considered for this course you must be able to:
The course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan
New Addington
This short course is for learners who want to improve their confidence in talking about and managing their experience of loss and for those wishing to support others.
On this course, we will gently explore the themes of bereavement, grief and loss through a variety of practical and interactive activities. The sessions aim to support participants to understand and normalise bereavement, grief and loss in a supportive and caring environment.
On this course you will:
This course is open to all learners
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
New Addington
This course is for all learners who would like to enjoy, engage and interact with different aspects of appreciating and caring for our planet.
This course is open to all learners
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
The Wilderness Garden
This course is for learners who would like to develop confidence and communication skills through reading a series of picture books without words as a group. The books are written especially for adults as part of a wider project – See more information here: booksbeyondwords
This course is open to all learners but is particularly useful for learners that do not read words confidently
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
New Addington
This course is for all learners who would like to learn and practice a variety of everyday practical skills and develop a ‘can do’ approach to life.
Learn to work co-operatively with others in a group
Listen to and value others’ opinion in a group
Improve your ability to live independently
Improve your problem-solving, speaking and listening skills and employability skills.
This course is open to all learners
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan
Optional opportunity to complete the AQA Unit Award: Passport to Success: Confidence which will be assessed by coursework tasks and accredited by the examination board
New Addington
If you are unsure of the alphabet and how each letter sounds, then this is the course for you.
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
New Addington
This course is for learners who would like to increase their existing
reading, grammar, punctuation and writing skills.
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
New Addington
This course is for learners that love to read and enjoy taking part in discussions
To be considered for this course you, you must be able to:
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
New Addington
This course is a part-drama and part-English class, for learners (E1 literacy or above, but pre-entry learners can be included) who like stories on film and would like to write their own stories (about themselves, their lives, or things that matter to them) and turn them into films to be shown in the cinema.
Acting and Communication skills:
Writing skills:
Practical skills:
Group/teamworking skills:
We are a happy acting troupe who collaborate on stories and help each other to write our stories and film them.
How will this course benefit me?
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Strand House
This course is for learners who would like to improve their confidence and ability in speaking, listening and responding to others in discussions about current news stories. We will also focus on improving spelling.
This course is open to all learners
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Croydon Clocktower
This is for anyone who enjoys using a computer and wants to improve their Maths skills.
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Strand House
This course is for learners who would like to gain employment in the field
of hospitality, especially in catering.
You will learn how to do the following in the workplace:
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan
Strand House
This course is for learners who would like to learn to cook an exciting range of foods that they can make themselves. Learners will follow a range of recipes to make a selection of savoury dishes, whilst improving their practical maths skills.
Entry Requirements:
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Good Food Matters
This course is for learners who would like to cook and create delicious dishes from countries they have travelled to or would like to learn more about. You will cook an exciting range of dishes from all over the world, whilst improving your practical maths skills in the kitchen.
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Good Food Matters
You must be willing to develop your digital skills.
This course will be assessed by the completion of a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)
Croydon Clocktower
Courses take place at our 3 centres across Croydon: Strand House in Thornton Heath, Croydon Clocktower in Katharine Street in Central Croydon and New Addington Library.
We also deliver some classes at Thornton Heath library, Good Food Matters (New Addington) and Cherry Hub (St James’s Rd).
To apply for any of our courses email us at: independentliving@croydon.gov.uk
New learners will have an interview and assessment to find out your starting point and assess which courses best meet your needs.
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