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A next step: a student found work as a Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner ...

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A next step: a student found work as a Trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner ...

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... for the NHS. She will be working and studying at the same time.
Today, she also received an invite for an interview as a wellbeing practitioner for an institute.
She shared in class that the Certificate has changed her life, her private and professional life.

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Learner Feedback on what they can do now that they couldn't do before: 

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Learner Feedback on what they can do now that they couldn't do before: 

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To prepare for the end of term, I have created an activity which I'm starting with today with my Learn and Work online class.

Part 1: Learners start by discussing in pairs what they can do now that they couldn't do before.

Part 2: They are then provided with a printout of the available progression courses (Beth has added this as a spreadsheet to FS team on Teams for Edu) and discuss together what their chosen progression course could be.

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Last week, a former student visited the Certificate class to share his journey. He is now a qualified counsellor.

Today, Naz from the University of East London presented different pathways to counselling.
Thanks to Fatma for organising this.

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Students on our current super fast-tracked Certificate course

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Students on our current super fast-tracked Certificate course

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Some comments of these learners about this course in their 4th week:

"... the course helps you with life skills.."

"... the course teaches me a lot about myself..."

"... since I started this course, I have more tolerance to listen to my husband..."

"...the course teaches me skills useful in work and daily life..."

"... the course gives me confidence in communicating..."

"... the course taught me more about my personal boundaries..."

"... on the course I have learnt that things can come from other people... not only from me..."

"... the course helped me to make friends..."

"... the course has taught me that we are so different yet very connected..."

"... the group supports me..."

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All students passed (Certificate course started in January and finished in May)!

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All students passed (Certificate course started in January and finished in May)!

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Councillor Lester Buxton - Deputy Mayor of Haringey visiting the Peer to Peer Mentoring stand! 

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Councillor Lester Buxton - Deputy Mayor of Haringey visiting the Peer to Peer Mentoring stand! 

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Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Coding

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Councillor Lester Buxton, Deputy Mayor of Haringey visiting the above Hybrid Class!!

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Thanks to our colleagues Chrystella and Cristina for beautifully putting up Maths Team’s display during Haringey Learns’ launch. The main attraction of this was comments and feedback of learners who completed their Maths study with us in the last term in both evening and daytime mode. They all gave us encouraging positive comments. Thanks to all Maths tutors for helping Maths learners achieve their qualifications and giving learners an enjoyable experience in learning Maths skills. I will move this display from room-1 to Room 13.

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Introduction to Blogging - That's a Wrap!

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Introduction to Blogging - That's a Wrap!

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Another fantastic group of bloggers have just completed Introduction to Blogging!

We had a very diverse range of topics:
Art Projects for Kids, Sophrology, What Now? (after a pandemic), and Costume Design and Creation for Notting Hill Carnival.

Feedback from the group was that they find the template useful for knowing what information they need to include in a blog post. When speaking with the group about progression courses, Alfred gave a glowing recommendation for Andrew's Photoshop course, which he is just finishing and has hugely enjoyed!

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Happy to announce that all my learners from AAT Business Level 1 have passed. Some of them has progressed to Abiola AAT bookkeeping level 1. 

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Happy to announce that all my learners from AAT Business Level 1 have passed. Some of them has progressed to Abiola AAT bookkeeping level 1. 

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Learners in EDS L1 worked together on a project to create resources about Protecting Privacy and Data Online. Leaners were put into groups and provided with resources about a topic. Each group had to work together (a great way of incorporating the 5 Cs) to create a presentation on their topic.
All groups then joined a video call to present their presentation to the class, so it incorporated a communicating online element to it as well.
In completing the project, the learners created the resources for that module of the course.

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Today’s BKSB support session was attended by 6 learners; Three used BKSB Maths resource including one new learner from Joy’s class. One L1 learner, one L2 resit learner and one L2 Maths learner from evening Maths class received one-to-one support. All worked on their own pace and clearly enjoyed attending this support session. Please let your learners know about HALS’ Friday’s [1-3pm] BKSB session. This is open to Maths, English and IT learners. Thanks

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Learners number for E2/E3 Maths course has improved. This is a good news for us as for past few terms we had difficulty finding Entry level Maths learners. Hope this will continue. All Entry level Maths learners are now using BKSB Maths resources and writing 'Learning Journey' in MS Teams - this is an excellent step forward for these learners in improving their digital skills.
We have more learners in the evening mixed level Maths course through infilling - Thanks to BJ for interviewing learners ahead of lessons - it had a worrying start with few learners.
Daytime L2 course has 14 learners - at different levels of ability but level of enthusiasm for learning Maths skills and improving Maths knowledge is very high.

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One of the learners really struggled to complete the presentation as part of the portfolio. I was so impressed with his final submission. When I spoke to him, he said it took him four attempts in total. He put so much effort and thought into his coursework, I'm so inspired by his dedication to keep going in spite of finding it challenging!

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Fantastic peer in class feedback from one learner, who thanked all of the other learners for sharing their stories and experiences in volunteering. He said that it had opened a door for him and that he had learned so much through the experience.

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This week I have trialed; using channels for important things, so they don't get lost in a huge feed, used MSforms to make a quiz (not sure how to interpret the results yet!) and having the ILP as an ongoing 'assignment'. I have also made an EasyGen course of my L2 5 week skills course, for new learners, to help them catch up! Feedback has been positive so far! 🥳🙏
Finally, I have added a section to the learner diary called 'How have I applied the 5 Cs today?' So far, so good!

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All of BJ's evening L2 FM learners passed their Exam

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All of BJ's evening L2 FM learners passed their Exam

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Just received the following MS Teams msg from Christianah (BJ’s learner).
[Monday 23:34] Christianah Onifade-Carroll "Passed! Thank you for your encouragement. Thanks also for your persuasion, it was helpful and greatly appreciated. God bless you."

She had difficulty with attending at the start due to change in course timing. She was doing a teacher training course at the same time. Christianah had other difficulties to overcome. So, on some evenings she would not be able to fully focus in study. She had difficulty accessing resources in Teams for some time as well. I would receive text and phone calls from her when I was covering for BJ. But she did not drop out. She attended one lesson a week. Once BJ took over she could attend both evenings. Now she passed her exam. It gives me a great pleasure. Thank you BJ for supporting her.

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Chrystella invigilated Maths exam for BJ's evening Maths course. All learners looked confident and happy after the exam. They told Chrystella that they found exam paper easier than what they expected to see - Well done BJ for your excellent teaching.

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So proud of the group who finished this course having researched and designed their own posters about their favourite food.
Lots of new skills, including online searching, text and image formatting, working in the cloud.
Lovely end to the class with everyone sharing and learning about different foods during the poster presentation!

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2 Certificate groups will sit their External Assessments this week...

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2 Certificate groups will sit their External Assessments this week...

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Embedding ICT in English & an important visitor from The Centre For Social Justice! (click the pic to see more)

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Embedding ICT in English & an important visitor from The Centre For Social Justice! (click the pic to see more)

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Embedding IT skills in L2 English today, plus a surprise Q&A visit from Simon & Alice!
Learners typed up their persuasive speeches & learnt new skills like inserting pictures, colours and changing fonts. (I will share these later!)
Then, we had a visit from Alice, who works for the Centre For Social Justice (wow!) and is part of a Thinktank project working to promote the benefits of adult education to politicians! (double wow!)
A link to her previous paper is here The Long Game: How to reboot skills training for disadvantaged adults - The Centre for Social Justice but she's is going to develop this summary into a full report, hence her visit to us today!

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A successful “Digital Access to All” initiative enjoyed by our learners!

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Spaghetti and marshmallow challenge - an exercise in team-building and collaboration. It gave us lots to unpack: how to work as a team, how to strategise, how to deal with conflict. A great session!

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Great exam result for Evening Mixed Level (L1 & L2) Maths course

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Great exam result for Evening Mixed Level (L1 & L2) Maths course

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Eight learners set the Exam on the 10th Feb, seven passed, some with high score. Congratulations to Bheshlata.
Our next cohort will sit their exam on the 30th March - BJ is expecting a 100% pass.

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The Glam Squad (nail kits, DIY kits – glamming from home)

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The Glam Squad Video Promo presentation from workshop 2!

Workshop 1: Setting up and maintaining a website using WordPress.com

Workshop 2 - Promoting your business online – Promotional video tools

Workshop 3 - Keeping your customers updated through digital communication – YouTube and Social media; adding links to your website.

Workshop 4 – Ecommerce using WordPress - Upgrading to a Business Plan

Workshop 5 – Feedback, showcase presentations, Q & A, Progression.

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Learn and work online Essential Digital Skills

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Learn and work online Essential Digital Skills

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Their first video conference!

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Bheshlata and I visited CONEL on Thursday 10th of March for discussions around learners progression route and better work relationship. Very nice visit!

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Peer support can provide purpose both for the lower level learners and for the TLC Volunteers

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Build your online profile with WordPress

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Build your online profile with WordPress

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Wonderful group and some amazing websites created by learners looking to boost their online presence. Check out a couple of final week blog posts reflecting on their progress and new skills which will help meet future employability goals.

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Some are sitting their Level 3 exams now. Very proud of them!

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All Level 2 Certificate students passed!

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All Level 2 Certificate students passed!

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Lifelines - The online experiment for creative working continues! 

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Lifelines - The online experiment for creative working continues! 

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I've been experimenting with each Lifelines group to see what works best in terms of supporting learners to build up a portfolio of their creative development work over the six weeks. This term I'm trialing using Assignments, so setting a Word doc that each student can edit for each activity we do. This approach has been the most successful so far, and the most efficient in terms of providing formative feedback. Another great class today creating a really diverse range of characters, from grandmothers to car mechanics!

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A great achievement in the Learn and Work Online group as they practice basic text formatting and netiquette with their first posting activity.

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Learner engagement through the lens of Teams Insight

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Learner engagement through the lens of Teams Insight

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Great to see the statistics on Teams Insight:
All students were active in February
All students were active in March.

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Great to be back with a new group for L1 Award in Volunteering, and even better to be in (a slightly grubby!) Room 8! The walls are just fantastic as a collaboration tool - everyone got involved, and it gets people moving around and out of their seats. A really enjoyable first day!

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February 2022 Exam results for Functional Maths day-time online learners are out!!

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February 2022 Exam results for Functional Maths day-time online learners are out!!

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Great result for L1 learners.  8 passed and one failed by 1 mark. Most learners got high scores.

Satisfactory results for L2 FM considering challenges of online learning, child care and other issues. Five learners passed, for one result is still pending, and 3 failed. With a resit, I’m hoping they will pass. Strong learners reported after exam that they could not complete the whole paper. So, we need to focus on improving learners process skill and time management in L2 Maths exams. Also, I think, maths learners should be encouraged to attend lesson onsite.

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Thank you to Beth, Joy, Caitriona, John, and the wonderful TLC volunteers including Nicola who facilitated an excellent peer-peer support. 

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21 happy learners had the opportunity to attend the taster.

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17 learners in the ICT Workshop - Thank you Joy!!!! 

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Further Peer to Peer Support in Collaboration with ESOL 

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Further Peer to Peer Support in Collaboration with ESOL 

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Thank you Carolina!!

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Just attended a really informative CPD from ETF on deep learning for learners. Lots of tips and techniques and how to plan for Ls to retain the lessons. Will share information when I get the slides! Link to their Padlet here, hope you can see it.

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Students report changes in their lives (and this is only the 5th week they have attended their Certificate course):

"... I now let my child go through his emotions instead of pushing him to go to school... and we still get there on time!"
(The son of this student always refuses to go to school in the morning and throws a tantrum. She now gives him the space 'to be' and acknowledges how he feels.)

"I notice I listen to what my husband has to say. It registers now ..."
(This is a student who is usually not focused - distracted by her own thoughts - on the contents of her husband's stories about his work.)

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BKSB Support Workshop every Thurs & Fri from 10/3/22

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BKSB Support Workshop every Thurs & Fri from 10/3/22

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We have planned two BKSB support sessions each week, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. This is to make sure that our learners can develop their independent study skills, digital skills and mental well being by coming to HALS and getting support from HALS' volunteers /tutors. BKSB Maths resource is mapped inline with Maths (Reform) curriculum. It is progressive so learners can access Maths resources from Entry to L2. Our Schemes of work are BKSB focused from this term, so hopefully learners will see consistency in our delivery.

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Last night, we talked about how to motivate and lead people with different personality types. Here's what one of the groups came up with:

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Better Understanding of Intent statement. 

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Better Understanding of Intent statement. 

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I know have better understanding of the intent statement. I am now more confident with how it link with the 4 Strategic Priorities and how to support my learners with it.

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I have completed another maths class which initially I thought I was going to be with the learners for only 5 weeks. It was the best experience for me. The joy I have when I hear one of my learners saying to Gigi:
I have people saying how Maths is beautiful, but not for me and after her journey with HALs she says she can see herself saying Maths is beautiful in the future. This is my aim is for learners to fall in love what they are doing.

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It has been a great 5 weeks since the 2nd cohort has joined the class. One of the learner has mentioned that she was quiet unsure of having new learners in the class, but she was surprised as to how they have all been great and welcoming towards each other. The support network among the learners are just great to see. They are learners from all different part of the worlds who are determined to make a change in their life for not themselves but for their children.

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Level 1 writing exam results much better than expected!

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Level 1 writing exam results much better than expected!

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I was worried about this class as their writing mocks were quite low, however, they surprised me by getting amazing results, high scores and only 1 of 10 failed!

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Activate Your Potential: Career Development for Neurodiverse and Different Thinkers

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Activate Your Potential: Career Development for Neurodiverse and Different Thinkers

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We finished this short course today and it was really enjoyable to teach and the group were great.  Here are some of the feedback comments.
"I felt the learning environment was safe & encouraging.  I've been happy with the course & feel good in myself for engaging & participating".
"I benefitted from sharing experiences with other neurodivergent people."
"Valuable awareness and tools/materials to further develop after the course and for daily life".
"I will consider other courses at HALS to attend and apply my learning to my job search".
Some of the group want to come back and talk to the learners on the next course in May which is great!

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Maths Team had a useful meeting Gigi. Thanks to Bheshlata and BJ for their important contribution. We agreed on the structure of standardised Schemes of work for Maths team. We also agreed on updating Course Learning Objectives on ILP so that our Maths learners can easily and meaningfully self-assess their progress. We all agreed to use BKSB Maths resources to its full capacity and implement consistency across Maths courses. Fantastic progress.

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A great end to our first Introduction to Blogging course of 2022 last night. Always very inspiring to hear the writers read their work!
It was very moving to hear one learner say that what she gained from the course was the confidence to do something she never thought she could do, and now she's planning not one blog but two.
Lots of interest in progression from the group for writing and creative digital courses!

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Hybrid Team teaching: Caitriona doing a wonderful demo onsite showing how to adjust the chairs for good posture!

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Hybrid classes undoubtedly present additional challenges but they most certainly open up amazing possibilities. It was heart warming over the last couple of weeks to welcome learners online who would have had to drop out because of personal, health, work and childcare difficulties. We even had a learner join us from Italy for two weeks running. (Teaching across borders)  

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Hybrid classes undoubtedly present additional challenges but they most certainly open up amazing possibilities. It was heart warming over the last couple of weeks to welcome learners online who would have had to drop out because of personal, health, work and childcare difficulties. We even had a learner join us from Italy for two weeks running. (Teaching across borders)  

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IT Level 2 learners taking their First Exam

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IT Level 2 learners taking their First Exam

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Deidre Ray achievement for L1 IT Skills for Employment

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Deidre Ray achievement for L1 IT Skills for Employment

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Deidre Ray is a returning nurse for the NHS Barts Hospital, where she lacked the necessary skills/confidence in IT. This meant that at work she was at the forefront of office jokes and continually teased for her IT skills. That was 2 weeks ago and since then Deidre's confidence level has taken a huge boost because it was her birthday today (31st January) and she passed 2 exams for Cyber security.

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All Maths learners preparing for Feb Exam completed their mock exam onsite this week. Those who could not sit the test on the day due child care, completed by going to HALS at an agreed time. Learners kept tutors updated about their arrival time - and overall demonstrated a keen interest and eagerness to succeed in their learning journey.

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Setting up for Essential Digital Skills L1

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Setting up for Essential Digital Skills L1

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Getting reach to co-teach online and on-site. Great feedback from the learners! Even though we were hybrid, it felt like we were all in the same room.

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Great start last week with 5 women and another 2 hopefully joining tomorrow. I was not confident upon my 1st delivery but with the help of Gigi I am more confident with the 2nd delivery. Happy days

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2nd cohort started last week with 4 new learners who are ready to embark on their journey to improve their career path. 1st cohort joined the borough engagement session which was a success as well.

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This is the second week for Certificate students. First thing to start with: going through their group contract. Here is one from the evening group.

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Learner feedback on relevancy of L2 Functional Skills 

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Learner feedback on relevancy of L2 Functional Skills 

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A learner approached me in a cafe on Friday to tell me how helpful and relevant Functional Skills Level 2 was to her new level 3 course.
"So glad I did this course, as I am now not panicking about writing up my reports and doing presentations. "

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Testimonials from the Building Confidence for Women Returning to Work workshop delivered by HALS

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100% pass rate in AAT Accounting Software. 

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100% pass rate in AAT Accounting Software. 

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All except 1 progress to Level 2.

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All learners on HALS day-time L1 and L2 Maths courses have agreed to visit HALS next week to sit their mock exam. This will give them an opportunity to sit a test in exam condition. This experience is expected to improve learners confidence in dealing with Exam stress. This will also identify learners who need more support to be Exam ready in Feb.

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Confidence Building for Women Returning to Work

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Confidence Building for Women Returning to Work

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A surprisingly emotional session on communication. The learners learnt  techniques to organise their thoughts when answering questions in interviews.

During an exercise, where I asked them to use a speak on the spot structure to talk about their strength, a couple of learners struggled to come up with anything they were good at.

The group immediately gathered around them to provide support. Thanks to the peer encouragement and a bit of coaching from me, the learners in question managed to find their strength - and a way to talk about it.

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Jamboard feedback on the National Poporn Day Presentation

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QE Code to Presenatation created by Hind Al-Dulaimi – L2 ICT 

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    National Poporn Day     January 2022 

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    National Poporn Day     January 2022 

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A snapshot of some of the ideas and inspiration from our first blogging class of 2022 on what they value about blogs. 

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ELSK started yesterday thanks to a tremendous team effort to ensure sufficient numbers are enrolled. It was most humbling to hear the gratitude expressed by learners for the option to join online/Hybrid. Many would not have been able to attend in person because of medical conditions or other circumstances.

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It's been great meeting our new bloggers this month in the run up to our course starting Weds 19th (tomorrow!).

Great to see the diversity of ideas and motivations continuing into 2022!
- Sewing/fashion/sustainability
- Grassroots community groups
- Holiday destinations in the UK
- A creative space for writing, poetry, songs

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To celebrate all of the amazing work being created by the Lifelines writers, I have collated all of the stories together in a padlet. So much creative talent at HALS!
If you'd like the password to browse the new library, let me know and I'll send it to you.

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Great to see Joy leading the well-behaved group in Room 3.

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14 learners in attendance and still counting!!!!- Great start.

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It was nice to see that learners who completed Level Up Percentage & Digital Skillsbuilder course progressed to either ICT or English or Business courses at HALS. These are mostly Entry level learners who are also keen on staring a Maths course at HALS. Thanks to Bheshlate for her inspirational teaching.

Good to see all Evening Maths L1/L2 learners now fully engaged in learning FS21/8935 – thanks to BJ for contacting learners, introducing himself and getting them to collect their papers from HALS’ reception. Great work.

Good to see 12 L1/L2 learners from 8933 and 8934 attended Maths Support Workshop last Thursday. Most of the learners completed the paper before they arrived, happily dictated or wrote their answers in Chat.  They made the most of the session of feedback and stretch and challenge.

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L2 English - 100% attendance yesterday, onsite & online. Learners will be doing their first writing mock paper, next week, after only 2 weeks of intensive teaching! They ALL passed reading in December. Well done class, so hard working and dedicated.

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Most of NHS Maths learners have successfully completed HALS’ application process and now on learner-track despite working under pressure due to COVID situation. Thanks to Helen and Undeane for supporting learners who needed help and Beth for updating me on applications status – so I could chase up. Sunny

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Glad to be back in HALS after a successful surgery. My first meeting with learners was last Wednesday and I was really excited with the caliber of learners.  Thank you Sunny and Bhesh for holding forth for me. Cheers BJ

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Glad to be back in HALS after a successful surgery. My first meeting with learners was last Wednesday and I was really excited with the caliber of learners.  Thank you Sunny and Bhesh for holding forth for me. Cheers BJ

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4 Bookkeeping learners working with Faridun on Apprenticeships too!

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7 learners progressing to L2 - Looking forward to it!

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Sally and I are in the process of moving reading resources from back of OLC to the cabinet outside room 12.
They will be arranged by level and will be great for Reading challenge.
Get your reading groove on people.