Latest News – July 2020
Learners from our sewing courses at Highcrest Adult Learning Centre have been busy supporting health workers by making laundry bags, headbands and knitted hearts for Covid-19 patients. The knitted and crochet hearts are given to families separated by restrictions to hospital visiting during the covid crisis, one heart is given to the patient in hospital […]
English tutor Nick Andrews worked with other staff to create a wonderful collection of writing by some of his learners this year. Precious writes about her job as a carer during the Covid outbreak, another learner describes working in a supermarket. Elizabe describes the lower Alentejo region of Portugal in a brooding and evocative style. […]
Creative Writing learner Jerry Bignell has won second place in a writing competition run by The Writers’ Block. Jerry has attended two of Gabrielle Mullarkey’s Creative Writing courses this year which he says have both been excellent, largely because of Gabrielle. He says, “I cannot speak highly enough of her. She was at all times, a […]