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Classes for Adults September 2021 to July 2022
www.letchworthsettlement.org.uk
01462 682828 info@letchworthsettlement.org.uk
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General Information
Building Opening We would recommend that where Settlement
possible students lift share to ease
Times the pressure on car parking space.
Team
The buildings are open from 9am Additional parking is available at Sally Rogers
on weekdays. We ask students not the Open Air Swimming Pool on
to arrive before this time unless by Jacqui Black
Norton Way North (5 minute walk)
prior arrangement. Groups and or the Bowling and Tennis Court
students are asked to leave the car park on Icknield Way
building by 10pm during the week. Settlement
(3 minute walk).
Weekend opening is made by
Officers
It is important that students and
special arrangement. members respect the Tutor, Chairman:
Disabled and Staff parking spaces. Hilary Kemp
Failure to do so may result in being Secretary:
Settlement Opening no longer permitted to park on the Marian Adams
The Settlement mainly follows the premises.
academic calendar. Courses Treasurer:
generally run for 10 or 12 weeks, Alan Higbey
5 or 6 weeks for short courses. Accuracy of
We are open during half-terms for Information
any classes or groups that wish to Whilst every effort has been
Office Hours
meet plus workshops but the office made to ensure the accuracy of (Term time only)
may not be open full time. information in this brochure, Monday to Thursday
The Settlement will be closed for Letchworth Settlement reserves 9.00am – 4.00pm
specific weeks during the the right to cancel, reschedule
Christmas, Easter and summer or amend courses and other Friday
holidays. Please see term dates for details after publication. In any 9.00am – 12.30pm
details. event, courses are subject to the
regulations applicable to each
particular course.
Mobile Phones
The use of mobile phones is not Data
permitted during classes and
meetings, therefore we ask that We keep your information in a
they are turned off during these database to enable us to process
times. your enrolment and administer
courses. For further information on
Data Protection please see our
Car Parking Privacy Policy on our website.
There is free parking along the
side and to the rear of the Hearing Loops
buildings. We cannot guarantee
parking for everyone at busy There are hearing loops
times. If you need to double park, available in the Brunt Room and
notices are available in each the Hall. Please ask if you need
classroom for you to display in assistance with these.
your car.
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Foreword
I am honoured – and a little Thank you to Settlement
relieved – to be writing this members and supporters, North
introduction to the Letchworth Herts District Council, Letchworth
Settlement 2021-22 course Civic Trust, The Heritage
brochure. Foundation and the National
Heritage Memorial Fund.
Many hours of careful planning and skilled
organisation have gone into the year’s This brochure for the 2021-22 educational
programme, against a background of the year is testament to how your generous
pandemic and its unpredictable moves. It’s donations and grants have enabled the staff
still keeping us on our toes… but we’ve got at the Settlement to continue working on the
adept at flexing with each new set of many changes to courses needed
circumstances, and in using technology to throughout the pandemic. The monies have
support the Settlement community too. allowed the Settlement to organise the 20-21
programme with confidence knowing we
We’re delighted to be making use of our have sufficient funds to survive. Also during
historic building and bringing people lockdown under the terms of our lease the
together here once again. But you’ve helped external fabric of the building has been
us to see that virtual classes can also work redecorated, new lighting has been installed
well. So we hope that in the 2021-22 within the art rooms and an improved WiFi
academic year we can offer you choices of system will be operational. All ready for the
format as well as course content, and full programme in the autumn.
provide an even richer experience than
before. So thank you again for your generosity in
keeping this much loved institution afloat!
Please read this course brochure, share it,
and talk to your friends about it. We’re
bringing you a whole year of tempting Nigel Carrick
courses led by expert tutors… some of whom
you may know, others that are new to the
Settlement. And we’d like to welcome you
back… or invite you to join us for the first IMPORTANT
time. Becoming a member of the Settlement –
with access to all it can offer – is a way of NOTE:
sharing in Letchworth community life. Whilst every effort has been
made to ensure the accuracy of
Despite everything that’s happened over the information in this brochure,
last year, we’re still going strong and our please note that due to the unusual
ethos and motto is comfortingly familiar: conditions in which this brochure
was prepared, there may be
Meet. Learn. Create. significant alterations and
additions to the timetable and
Hilary Kemp courses offered. Letchworth
Settlement reserves the right to
Chair
cancel, reschedule or amend
courses.
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Enrolment & Fees
All postal enrolments must be Methods of Payment
accompanied by an enrolment We accept payment by cash, cheque (made payable
form found in the centre of this to ‘Letchworth Settlement’) and debit and credit cards.
If enrolling by post please include your card details
brochure or available from the
on the enrolment form or enclose a cheque.
Settlement office.
Please note, we do not accept American Express,
Enrolment Opening Diners Club or Corporate Credit Cards.
Due to the ongoing situation with Covid we cannot
give you an enrolment date at present but please Class Refunds
check the website or contact the Office for further Once a course has begun, refunds will only be given
information. in exceptional circumstances and subject to a £10
administration fee. All refund requests must be made
Online Enrolments in writing. If you are refunded during the course of the
Existing members will be able to enrol on courses term your place is then cancelled and offered to the
and renew their membership online. next person on the waiting list. Priority status is then
transferred to them.
It is not possible to join as a member of the Settlement
online. New joiners will need to enrol by post or in Workshop Refunds
person. We would encourage current members to We will only give a refund for cancellations more than
enrol online where possible. 7 days ahead of the workshop date. No refunds can
be made after the 7 day deadline. If the workshop is
Enrolment by post not viable due to insufficient numbers we will issue a
Places are available on a first come, first served full refund.
basis. Postal enrolments are dealt with in strict date
received order, including over the summer. Re-enrolment Policy
Please note the Settlement closes for the summer For ongoing language, art and creative writing
break on 16 July 2021 but enrolments may still be courses, once students have a place in the autumn
posted after that (see above). term they have priority re-enrolment for the next two
terms, providing payment is made by the penultimate
Enrolment in person or by phone week of each course. After that time any spare places
Students may enrol in person at the Settlement or over will be offered to those on the waiting list.
the phone. Please note the office and phone line are
likely to be very busy so do consider completing and Concessions Policy
leaving your enrolment form or enrolling online. To extend participation in Settlement courses a small
fund exists to help support students who can provide
Fees evidence of financial hardship. Discounted fees may
Enrolments for September courses must be be available to Settlement members for one course
accompanied by payment (cash, cheque or each term. Concession application forms are
debit/credit card). available from the Settlement office.
Applications will be reviewed by the manager. During
If you wish to enrol on a course in the spring or term time applications will be processed and
summer terms, please let the office know your name responded to within 7 working days.
and contact details as soon as possible. You will be
enrolled but payment will only be required towards Class Numbers
the end of the previous term. We require a minimum number of students for most
Annual Settlement membership is payable by all courses. Generally speaking, we require a minimum
students at the time of enrolment. of 10 students for Special Interest courses and 8 for
other courses.
Course fees can be found in this brochure under the
description for each course.
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Contents
2 General Information 23 Fitness
3 Foreword 24-34 Special Interest Courses
4 Enrolment & Fees 35 Workshops & Lectures
5 Settlement Membership 36-37 Settlement Groups
6-7 Daily Diary of Courses & 37 Other Clubs & Organisations
Activities at the Settlement
8-16 Arts & Crafts 37 Making Contact
10 Gift Vouchers 38-39 Associated Organisations
17-21 Languages 40 Lettings Charges
21 Friends of the Settlement 41 Term Dates
22 Creative Writing 41 Honorary Fellowships
Enrolment Form 42 How To Find Us
(centre pull-out)
43 The Settlement Story
Settlement Membership
All students on Settlement courses
and members of ‘Settlement Groups’ Discounts available
are required to be Settlement to members
members.
Members benefit from a great range
Members have full voting rights at the AGM and of discounts which are available at
enjoy the benefits listed below. The annual fee local shops and businesses but at the
for 2021-2022 remains at £18 (£13 concession time of print our discount partners are
for age 60+). Payments by Standing Order currently under review. More details
and through Gift Aid are greatly encouraged. can be found on our website or by
A signed Gift Aid declaration (on the enrolment contacting the Office for further
form) will allow the Settlement to collect from information.
H M Revenue & Customs an additional 25% of
the value of the annual membership fee and any
donations made.
All Members receive the following benefits:
• Regular email newsletters and a Settlement
brochure
• Discounts, which are available at many local
shops and businesses
Please address membership enquiries to
the Settlement office.
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Daily Diary of Courses & Act
Brusho – Animals 13
MONDAY TUESDAY
Introduction to Fused Glass 15
Morning Morning Simply Sewing –
ReClothing the Past 24 50+ Exercise to Music 23 A Focus on Technique 15
Developing a Keep Fit 23 Chinese Brush Painting –
Photographer’s Eye 29 Still Life 13
The Story of the Earth from
Get Writing for All 22 the Big Bang to the Present Chinese Brush Painting –
Day 24 Landscape Composition 13
Wicked Ways With
Watercolours 8 Experiments that Changed Chinese Brush Painting –
the Course of Science 29 Lingnan Landscape 13
Upholstery 11
Patchwork and Quilting 10 Drawing for Beginners –
Italian – Intermediate 3 17
Botanical Art – ONLINE COURSE 14
Letchworth Art & Leisure Christmas Cards 14
Group (LALG) 37 Drawing for Beginners –
Fundamentals of EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE
Successful Travel Writing 29 COURSE 14
Afternoon Five Economic Events that Italian – Beginners 18
Food in Fiction 29 Shook the World –
ONLINE COURSE 24 The Music of Disney 26
Fairy Tales: Classic and Popular Culture in Britain,
Modern 33 Italian – Improvers 17
1945-55 30
Abstract Painting 8 Italian – Advanced
Conversation 18 The Golden Age of the
Upholstery 11 MGM Musical 34
Spanish – Improvers 20
Simply Sewing 10 Dance Steps Academy 38
Spanish – Beginners 20
German – Improvers 20
German – Beginners 21 Evening
Afternoon
Italian – Beginners Plus 17 Italian – Intermediate 18
Light & Shadow:
Italian – Advanced 1 17 Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina 25 Still Life & Life Drawing 8
French – Beginners Plus 18 The Long View by Letchworth Art Society 36
Elizabeth Jane Howard 25
Get Writing for All – Letchworth Natural
ONLINE COURSE 22 Amazing Gods & History Society 38
Goddesses of the
First Garden City Ladies’ Middle East 33
Group 38
Managing Photos on a
Dance Steps Academy 38 Tablet Computer 25
Taming the Titans of
WEDNESDAY
Evening Home Computing 25
Morning
Upholstery 11 Almost Always Summer:
E.M. Forster’s A Room with The Moon Landing, 1969 26
Settlement Players Theatre a View 30
Group 37 The Art of the Cote d’Azur 30
In a Foreign Country: The
Dance Steps Academy 38 Go-Between by L.P. Hartley 30 Cake Decorating &
Sugarcraft 11
Settlement Table Tennis Sacred & Profane:
Group 37 Brideshead Revisited by It’s in the Post: Reading
Evelyn Waugh 33 Greek & Latin Letters 26
Letchworth & Hitchin
Chess Club 37 Script Reading Shakespeare: Love in Classical Literature 26
Letchworth Garden City A Midsummer Night’s Dream 33 Two Ancient Historians:
Society 38 Acrylic Painting 14 Herodotus and Thucydides 31
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ctivities
Film Music in Britain and Get Writing for All 22 Poetry ID Group 39
Europe 31
Sugarcraft: Private Tutored North Herts Guild of
Expressive Watercolours 8 Group 11 Spinners, Weavers and
Get Writing for All 22 Dyers 39
Introduction to Still Life 16
Walking with History 34 Letchworth Camera Club 39
Mixing it Up – Fun with
Daytime Art Club 36 Mixed Media 16
Russian – Beginners 21 Experimental Drawing 16
French – Intermediate 19 French – Intermediate 3 19 FRIDAY
French – Advanced French – Beginners 19
Conversation 19 Morning
Spanish – Advanced 20
Lipreading 28
Afternoon Art of the Landscape 9
Afternoon
Amazing Scientists of the Cut Flowers for All 12
St. Paul & Christianity 27
Middle East 27
Louis MacNeice’s Autumn
Life Drawing 9 Journal 28 Evening
Daytime Art Club 36 The Philosophy of Royal Society for the
Developing Jacobean Wittgenstein 32 Protection of Birds 39
Crewelwork Embroidery – The Moon & Sixpence and
ONLINE COURSE 15 L.A.L.G. Wine Appreciation
Gauguin 32 Group 38
French – Advanced
Conversation 19 Freud: ‘A Case Hysteria’ 34 L.A.L.G. Wine Discovery
Group 38
DNA: The Secret of Life 31 The Life & Art of Artemisia
Gentileschi (1593 – 1656) 34 Letchworth Recorded
Music Society 38
Oil Painting 9
Evening ‘Bobbin’ Along’ 36
Simply Sewing 10
Get Writing for All 22
Art History & Contextual
Life Drawing 9 Studies 16 SATURDAY
Patchwork & Quilting 10 A Brief History of the
English Garden – Dance Steps Academy 38
Simply Sewing 10
ONLINE COURSE 27
HUE 36
Building an Art Portfolio 15
Royal Gardens –
Dance Steps Academy 38 ONLINE COURSE 32
Settlement Players Theatre From Kaisers to Cold War:
Group 37 Germany’s Story at the SUNDAY
Heart of World History –
ONLINE COURSE 28 Settlement Players Theatre
Rehearsal for World War Two: Group 37
THURSDAY Spain’s Civil War 1936-39 –
ONLINE COURSE 32
Letchworth Sinfonia 39
Morning
25 Club 39 Evening
Rooms are available
The Many Masterpieces Wired and Unwired Sugar
of Christopher Wren 27 Flowers for All Occasions 12 for hire.
“We are Making a New Hatha Yoga – Beginners 23 Please enquire in
World”: Foundations of the
Modern World, 1917-23 31 Hatha Yoga – Advanced 23 the office.
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Arts & Crafts ONGOING COURSES
MONDAYS • 9.30am to 12 noon TUESDAYS • 7.00pm to 9.00pm
Wicked Ways With Watercolours Still Life & Life Drawing
Tutor: Fiona Pruden Tutor: Collette Hoefkens
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 12 13 Sep £150 Autumn term 8 ?? ??
Spring term 10 10 Jan £125 Spring term 8 ?? ??
Summer term 10 25 Apr £125 Summer term 8 ?? ??
This course is ideal for Joining this positive and
anyone who wants to be a supportive group gives
bit adventurous in painting you the opportunity to
with watercolours, even if focus on developing your
you haven’t ever tried it observation and drawing
before. With a combination skills. Each week you will
of demonstration and work directly from life or
discussion, including secondary sources and
composition and some drawing skills, these will be encouraged to explore different
classes will take you through the basic skills you aspects and disciplines to create a successful
need to start painting, using the characteristics drawing. On alternate weeks you will work
of this much loved medium: clear and directly from the life model. Guidance will be
transparent but full of light and colour. Subjects given on colour and using different media.
vary widely from sea and landscapes, people, Beginners and improvers welcome.
pets and portraits, still-life, flowers etc., Please contact Collette for more details on
journeying from a basic palette to including less 07942 893457. Fees paid direct to tutor, in
familiar paints and mediums. advance of term.
MONDAYS • 1.30pm to 3.30pm WEDNESDAYS • 10.00am to 12.30pm
Abstract Painting Expressive Watercolours
Tutor: Chantelle Stephenson Tutor: Suzy Drake
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 12 13 Sep £120 Autumn term 11 15 Sep £138
Spring term 10 10 Jan £100 Spring term 10 12 Jan £125
Summer term 10 25 Apr £100 Summer term 10 27 Apr £125
Each lesson begins with Watercolour is an exciting
an approachable practical and versatile medium.
experiment that is later During this course we aim
developed using various to explore this versatility
materials such as acrylic playing with colour and a
paints, watercolours, pen host of different
and ink and collage. All techniques such as laying
will be demonstrated to washes, wet-in-wet,
understand how the materials can be used in sponging. We will also look at how to put a
each session and constant guidance will be successful picture together through a range of
given throughout the course. different subjects from flowers to landscapes
Contemporary artists are introduced and with the aim of producing pictures we can
discussed each week to aid as reference enjoy creating and be proud of!
material. This course is ideal for beginners
and amateur artists who want to experiment
with materials and ideas further.
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‘Another great course. Looking
forward to next term.’
WEDNESDAYS • 1.30pm to 3.30pm THURSDAYS • 1.00pm to 3.30pm
Life Drawing Oil Painting
Tutor: Suzy Drake Tutor: Chantelle Stephenson
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 11 15 Sep £145 Autumn term 12 16 Sep £150
Spring term 10 12 Jan £130 Spring term 10 13 Jan £125
Summer term 10 27 Apr £130 Summer term 10 28 Apr £125
Drawing the human body The afternoon Thursday
is a wonderful way for oil painting group is a
anyone, from beginner to lively, approachable and
the more experienced, to unique class. Students are
improve their drawing encouraged to build and
skills. Using short and respond to their own
long poses, and a variety natural strengths and
of media and materials we focus on developing their
will explore the visual potential of the human own unique style within the painting process.
form to create exciting images. Each student will shape a diverse narrative
Course fee includes model fee. from their own sources of inspiration, from
their own sketches, photography and still life.
Current and past painters will be discussed in
class also for inspiration.
WEDNESDAYS • 7.00pm to 9.00pm FRIDAYS • 9.30am to 12 noon
Life Drawing Art of the Landscape
Tutor: Collette Hoefkens Tutor: Mike Rollins
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 8 ?? ?? Autumn term 10 24 Sep £125
Spring term 8 ?? ?? Spring term 10 14 Jan £125
Summer term 8 ?? ?? Summer term 10 29 Apr £125
An excellent opportunity to Artists have been painting
work in a friendly and the landscape since
diverse group. Working ancient times to try and
directly with the model you understand and celebrate
will be able to develop and the world around them.
explore your own unique In this class for
style. From beginners to beginners and improvers,
professional artists and students will learn,
illustrators, these sessions are structured to through demonstration and practice, how to
enable you to practice and experiment, allowing use composition, colour and texture to tackle
you to broaden your creative potential. Support a variety of landscape and urban scenes.
and guidance is available in using a range of Whilst inspiration will be gained by
media including charcoal, pencil and oils. informal discussion of artists and their
Beginners and experienced artists are welcome. environment, students will be encouraged to
Please contact Collette for more details on develop their own style using photographic
07942 893457. Fees paid direct to tutor, in reference and a variety of different mediums,
advance of term. including watercolour, acrylic and pastels.
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Arts & Crafts ONGOING COURSES
TUESDAYS • 9.45am to 12.15pm WEDNESDAYS • 7.15pm to 9.15pm
WEDNESDAYS • 7.00pm to 9.30pm THURSDAYS • 4.15pm to 6.15pm
Patchwork & Quilting Simply Sewing
Tutor: Sheena Roberts Tutor: Jane Neesam
TUE Weeks Starts Fees per term WEDS Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 12 14 Sep £150 Autumn term 12 8 Sep £120
Spring term 10 11 Jan £125 Spring term 10 12 Jan £100
Summer term 10 19 Apr £125 Summer term 10 20 Apr £100
WEDS Weeks Starts Fees per term THUR Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 12 15 Sep £150 Autumn term 12 9 Sep £120
Spring term 10 12 Jan £125 Spring term 10 13 Jan £100
Summer term 10 20 Apr £125 Summer term 10 21 Apr £100
A relaxed, informal class to Construct an item of
learn the skills of machine clothing with a commercial
patchwork and quilting and pattern and gain confidence
add a little design pizazz to enjoy sewing in a group
along the way! A range of and at home on your own.
techniques will be covered Lots of support provided by
including rotary cutting, the tutor for you to develop
getting the best from your your sewing skills to achieve
sewing machine, colour choices, machine a professional finish with zips, facings, hems,
piecing and quilting and basic construction gathers, darts, pressing and more. Come with a
methods. A fresh project will be developed each project ready to sew or seek help before getting
term which can be used to make a quilt, started on one.
wallhanging or smaller project of your choice. All Whether you are making your first skirt or
levels of experience are welcome. progressing to something more advanced, all
levels of experience are welcome.
For more information, please contact Jane
Neesam on 07742 292405 or jane@neesam.com
Gift Vouchers
Why not give the gift of
learning to someone you know?
We now offer Gift vouchers in £20, £10 and
£5 denominations, along with a choice of two
very attractive gift cards.
The vouchers are valid for one year from
date of issue. They have to be presented at
the time of booking a course so cannot be
used for telephone bookings or online. No
cash will be given in exchange for vouchers.
If you order these over the phone we will
post them to you by Royal Mail 1st Class, to
be signed for and there will be a £2.00
postal charge.
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‘Excellent course, great tutor!’
MONDAYS • 9.30am to 12.30pm WEDNESDAYS • 9.30am to 11.30am
MONDAYS • 1.30pm to 4.30pm
Cake Decorating & Sugarcraft
Upholstery Tutor: Celia Hasan
Tutor: Janet Capstick Weeks Starts Fees per term
Weeks Starts Fees per term Autumn term 10 8 Sep £100
Autumn term 12 13 Sep £180 Spring term 10 12 Jan £100
Spring term 10 10 Jan £150 Summer term 10 20 Apr £100
Summer term 10 25 Apr £150 Develop your cake
decorating skills by
MONDAYS • 6.30pm to 9.00pm exploring modern and
traditional cake design,
Weeks Starts Fees per term using a range of sugars.
Autumn term 12 13 Sep £150 This will involve the use of
Spring term 10 10 Jan £125 texture, colour co-
ordination, figure
Summer term 10 25 Apr £125 modelling and flower
Learn upholstery skills in a making. By using royal icing, sugarpaste,
friendly and informal pastillage, flower paste and buttercream, you
setting. Whether you are a will experience different techniques in this
diverse subject, and become proficient in the
beginner or have more skills of the professional cake decorator.
experience, these classes Demonstrations and group discussions about
provide the ideal coursework assist skill development in a
environment to work at friendly environment, where students can
your own pace on your work at their own speed. A tutorial sheet
own project with the support and guidance of accompanies each lesson to assist learning.
an experienced upholsterer. The course is suitable for mixed abilities.
Advice will be given about suitability of
projects based on experience, as well as the
materials and tools required to complete them.
There are no storage facilities, so projects must
be easily transportable to and from each class.
For more information, please contact Janet
Capstick on 07957 390294 or email THURSDAYS • 9.30am to 12 noon
janet@highcroftinteriors.co.uk
Sugarcraft: Private Tutored
Group
‘The tutor’s Tutor: Celia Hasan
Weeks Starts Fees per term
enthusiasm for her Autumn term 10 9 Sep
subject is infectious! Spring term 10 13 Jan
A wonderful presenter Summer term 10 21 Apr
with amazingly This is an established
extensive knowledge.’ small class that is run as a
workshop, which
To find out more about our tutors go occasionally has
vacancies.
to the biographies section on our
website: For more information,
www.letchworthsettlement.org.uk please contact Celia
Hasan on 01462 456429
/courses/tutor-biographies or celiahasan@btinternet.com
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Arts & Crafts ONGOING COURSES
THURSDAYS • 7.15pm to 9.15pm FRIDAYS • 10.00am to 12 noon
Wired and Unwired Sugar Cut Flowers for All
Flowers for All Occasions Tutor: Helen Allen
Tutor: Celia Hasan Weeks Starts Fees per term
Weeks Starts Fees per term Autumn term 10 10 Sep £100
Autumn term 10 9 Sep £100 Spring term 10 14 Jan £100
Spring term 10 13 Jan £100 Summer term 10 22 Apr £100
Summer term 10 21 Apr £100 Create wonderful,
Learners will develop the seasonal floral designs
skills to make flowers to a and learn tips to get the
professional standard, or best from your cut stems.
just for pleasure. Both With a range of floral
botanical and stylised designs from vintage to
flowers will be studied. It is contemporary you will try
an ideal opportunity to something different each
perfect modelling skills week to enjoy fresh for the weekend.
and, at the same time, learn shortcuts to Beginner to intermediate level (not absolute
achieve excellent results; or to explore the beginner). Starter pack of containers and
delicate make-up of a flower and its foliage. equipment available. You will provide your
Flowers made from sugar are a beautiful own plant material each week. Tutor can also
adornment on a cake, or as a centrepiece for provide some.
an occasion. Flowers will be made, using
cutters and by the pulling method. The course This course may also be taught via Zoom.
is suitable for all abilities. A tutorial sheet
accompanies each flower that is studied.
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SHORT COURSES
TUESDAYS • 1.00pm to 3.00pm TUESDAYS • 1.00pm to 3.30pm
Brusho – Animals Chinese Brush Painting –
Tutor: Sally Taylor Landscape Composition
Weeks Starts Fees per term Tutor: Marion Dearlove
Summer term 6 6 Jun £80 Weeks Starts Fees per term
Learn how to create Spring term 5 22 Feb £63
beautiful animal paintings Suitable for beginners and
using Brusho Crystal improvers. The Chinese
Pigments. The course have developed a very
includes big cats as well different approach to
as a horse, gorilla and an landscape painting to that
owl - one animal each adopted by the west. In
week. Learn how to apply this module we will look at
Brusho, use bleach and wax resist and add Chinese landscape
texture for hair or fur. A fun class where you compositions and how they differ from
can master techniques in a fun and friendly Western landscapes. We will learn some of
environment. the methods used to represent rocks, trees,
water, mist, cloud and landscape elements.
TUESDAYS • 1.00pm to 3.30pm TUESDAYS • 1.00pm to 3.30pm
Chinese Brush Painting – Chinese Brush Painting –
Still Life Lingnan Landscape
Tutor: Marion Dearlove Tutor: Marion Dearlove
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Spring term 5 11 Jan £63 Summer term 5 26 Apr £63
Suitable for beginners and Suitable for beginners and
improvers. The Chinese improvers. The Lingnan
still life compositions school was influenced by
include flowers, pots, the Japanese and the
vegetables, fish, shellfish West. Much of the work
and found objects. We will was originally developed
be looking at various for export to the West
compositions and the from Shanghai. The style
techniques used to develop them. uses far more colour in their compositions.
We will be looking at the techniques used and
the use of colour.
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Arts & Crafts SHORT COURSES
TUESDAYS • 9.30am to 12.30pm TUESDAYS
Botanical Art – EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE
Christmas Cards COURSE
Tutor: Jill Winch Drawing for Beginners
Weeks Starts Fees per term Tutor: Suzy Drake
Autumn term 5 2 Nov £80 Weeks Starts Fees per term
Using coloured pencils or Autumn term 10 7 Sep £70
watercolour, your tutor This beginners course is
will guide you through the based over 10 weeks and
process of producing a will take you through the
Christmas card. Working basics of learning how to
with cones, berries, draw. The aim is to give
leaves, fruits and all things you the basic tools with
Christmassy. Jill will make which to practise and
suggestions as to how best produce a progress your drawing.
composition that will be best for producing a Your Tutor will send you information and a
Christmas card. This course is suitable for all video tutorial on the Tuesday and completed
levels of abilities from the beginner to the artwork should be photographed and
more experienced. The tutor will also give returned prior to the next week’s lesson for
guidance on getting artwork printed. feedback given in video format.
TUESDAYS • 2.00pm to 4.00pm TUESDAYS • 1.15pm to 3.45pm
ONLINE COURSE Acrylic Painting
Drawing for Beginners Tutor: Mike Rollins
Tutor: Suzy Drake Weeks Starts Fees per term
Weeks Starts Fees per term Autumn term 5 2 Nov £70
Autumn term 10 7 Sep £100 Spring term 5 22 Feb £70
Discover the joy of Acrylic paint is one of the
drawing and learn how to most exciting and versatile
express yourself through mediums for creating art. In
mark-making and this course, suitable for
drawing. We will learn beginners and improvers,
basic drawing skills and students will explore a
practice those already variety of techniques and
gained, explore materials methods of application
and mark-making techniques with the aim of through tutor demonstration and practice.
dispelling the fears when faced with a blank Throughout the course, students will be
sheet of paper. encouraged to experiment and develop their
This course will be held online. own personal style of painting culminating in a
final piece of artwork that draws on what they
have learned.
Fees include some materials costs.
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‘The tutor has a great way with the class and is
keen to ensure we all learn and enjoy ourselves.’
TUESDAYS • 1.30pm to 3.30pm WEDNESDAYS • 1.00pm to 3.00pm
Introduction to Fused Glass ONLINE COURSE
Tutor: Jane Ducarreaux Developing Jacobean
Weeks Starts Fees per term Crewelwork Embroidery
Autumn term 6 7 Sep £125 Tutor: Sara Rickards
This course provides an Weeks Starts Fees per term
introduction to the basics of
glass fusing. Over the weeks Autumn term 10 29 Sep £100
you will learn about glass Design your own
and its infinite possibilities; Jacobean crewelwork
be taught to cut; how to plan from scratch or use a
a project and the different selection of pre-drawn
finishes that can be motifs to create your own
achieved using a variety of techniques, before design. Pick colours and
realising a number of projects including a wall decide on stitch
panel, a coral bowl, a suite of jewellery or Xmas placement to create a
decorations, and a decorative bowl and coasters. balanced design. Then learn how to work a
Fees include all materials costs. wide variety of surface stitches, including
satin stitch, long and short, burden, block
shading, closed fly, fishbone, Vandyke and
many others to complete your design.
This course will be held online.
TUESDAYS • 1.15pm to 3.45pm WEDNESDAYS • 7.00pm to 9.00pm
Simply Sewing – Building an Art Portfolio
A Focus on Technique Tutor: Stuart Jones
Tutor: Jane Neesam Weeks Starts Fees per term
Weeks Starts Fees per term Autumn term 12 15 Sep £120
Autumn term 5 2 Nov £63 Build and develop an art
Summer term 5 26 Apr £63 portfolio by exploring a
range of drawing, collage
In this short course we will and painting techniques
develop our construction and processes through
skills and sewing processes mark-making, gesture,
through making small and colour and scale. Push
jolly projects in a workshop your skills and ideas to
style. Your tutor will be create a body of experimental artwork. This
including skills such as body of work can then be used to create an
topstitching, trimming and art portfolio for applying to Further or Higher
layering seams, making binding, perfect zips, Education courses.
pressing and finishing to complete gorgeous
things such as gift bags, make up purses, bunting
and bags. (Perfect for Christmas and Summer
prep!)
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Arts & Crafts SHORT COURSES
THURSDAYS • 10.00am to 12 noon THURSDAYS • 10.30am to 12.30pm
Introduction to Still Life Experimental Drawing
Tutor: Louise Lahive Tutor: Stuart Jones
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 10 16 Sep £100 Autumn term 12 16 Sep £120
An excellent class for An intense and fast paced
anyone interested in an course designed to
observational and introduce you to a range
meditative approach to of drawing techniques
drawing and painting. and processes. Starting
You’ll be encouraged to with sketchbook practice
slow down and observe through to development
what is in front of you in a strategies and into a
relaxing, supportive environment. Using still finished piece. You will explore traditional and
lifes and the class environment we’ll develop untraditional approaches to drawing
drawing and painting techniques, look at how experimenting with collage, ink, graphite
to start off a drawing or painting, how to mix stick, charcoal and other materials and
paint from using primary colours and how to
processes. Develop your skills, experiment
overcome problems in the compositions. This
class is suitable for beginners or anyone who with new techniques and create exciting
wants to have a go at observational drawing artwork.
and painting, it is also a good steppingstone
for those who don’t want to try life drawing
straight away or those who want to try
painting with acrylics for the first time.
THURSDAYS • 10.00am to 12 noon THURDAYS • 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Mixing it Up – Fun with Mixed Art History & Contextual
Media Studies
Tutor: Louise Lahive Tutor: Stuart Jones
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Spring term 10 13 Jan £100 Autumn term 12 16 Sep £120
This class will be Learn about a range of
excellent for anyone who historical and
wants to try something a contemporary artists and
bit different. We will be art movements. Within this
making images by course we will discuss
combining materials such and debate a range of
as inks, acrylic paint, artists’ ideas, ways of
pencils and pastels. Each working, art history
week we’ll experiment with mark making and themes and approaches to art and how their
layering by using different surfaces and art practices relate to or connect to wider
techniques. Students will be given fun society and culture. Within the sessions you
exercises and projects that are suitable for will also be able to engage in practical
beginners as well as more experienced activities related to art movements and
students, everyone is welcome to work at individual artists that we discuss.
their own level and pace. Students will be
asked to bring their own basic materials of
paper, paint, pens and pencils as well as other
inexpensive materials as we go along.
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Languages
MONDAYS • 9.30am to 11.30pm MONDAYS • 2.00pm to 3.30pm
Italian – Intermediate 3 Italian – Advanced 1
Tutor: Ada Marini Tutor: Ada Marini
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 12 13 Sep £120 Autumn term 12 13 Sep £90
Spring term 10 10 Jan £100 Spring term 10 10 Jan £75
Summer term 10 25 Apr £100 Summer term 10 25 Apr £75
A friendly class for A lively class for students
students who already who want to practice the
have a few years of language and improve
learning and a good their fluency. This is
grasp of the language. achieved by making use
Plenty of opportunity to of a variety of resources
practice and enhance including magazines,
spoken Italian, listening to newspapers and a
authentic recordings as well as working on textbook. Student chosen themes are also
elements of grammar. A good textbook and encouraged to facilitate general
various other material will be used to conversational skills. Topics covered in class
facilitate and build language confidence. A will be about Italian current affairs, traditions,
variety of topics will be covered such as history and culture together with some
Italian history, culture and society with the aim elements of grammar.
to make learning more engaging and fun.
MONDAYS • 12 noon to 1.30pm TUESDAYS • 10.00am to 12 noon
Italian – Beginners Plus Italian – Improvers
Tutor: Ada Marini Tutor: Ada Marini
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 12 13 Sep £90 Autumn term 12 14 Sep £120
Spring term 10 10 Jan £75 Spring term 10 11 Jan £100
Summer term 10 25 Apr £75 Summer term 11 26 Apr £110
A welcoming class for A friendly and engaging
students with a basic class for students who
knowledge of Italian who already have a good
are looking at progressing general knowledge of the
to a higher level and language and wish to
becoming more confident improve and progress to
speakers. The aim is to higher level. Developing
improve vocabulary, skills greater language skills,
such as listening, reading and grammar in building confidence in the spoken Italian, with
order to gain greater speaking abilities as a focus on listening comprehension,
well as language and cultural understanding. conversation, vocabulary and use of
grammar. We will be working through a text
book supplemented with a variety of extra
activities, recordings, videos, games and
engaging and informative topics.
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Languages
TUESDAYS • 12.30pm to 2.00pm TUESDAYS • 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Italian – Advanced Italian – Intermediate
Conversation Tutor: Ada Marini
Tutor: Ada Marini Weeks Starts Fees per term
Weeks Starts Fees per term Autumn term 12 14 Sep £90
Autumn term 12 14 Sep £90 Spring term 10 11 Jan £75
Spring term 10 11 Jan £75 Summer term 11 26 Apr £82
Summer term 11 26 Apr £82 A friendly class where
An enjoyable and students can naturally
motivated class for progress from previous
students who are studies and experience,
confident in Italian and developing greater
require the opportunity to language skills and
practice and improve their building confidence in the
fluency. A number of spoken language with a
resources will be used focus on listening comprehension,
such as text books, articles, newspapers, conversation, vocabulary as well as grammar.
recordings, videos and games in order to We will be working through a text book
encourage conversation and further develop supplemented with a variety of activities,
vocabulary and language eloquence. Topics recordings, videos, games and engaging and
covered in class will be Italian current affairs, informative topics.
history, culture, music and more.
TUESDAYS • 2.30pm to 4.00pm MONDAYS • 2.00pm to 3.30pm
Italian – Beginners French – Beginners Plus
Tutor: Ada Marini Tutor: Marine Boulter
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 12 14 Sep £90 Autumn term 12 13 Sep £90
Spring term 10 11 Jan £75 Spring term 10 10 Jan £75
Summer term 11 26 Apr £82 Summer term 10 25 Apr £75
Are you a beginner or This class is for students
have little Italian who have a basic
knowledge? Come and knowledge of French. The
join this friendly class aim of the course is to
where you will gain a extend vocabulary as well
good basic understanding as grammar to develop
of the Italian language in further the experience of
everyday situations the language, alongside
through interactive and engaging activities the discovery of French culture and traditions.
such as listening, speaking, writing and
reading skills which are an integral part of this
course as well as basic grammar and
additional material to reinforce weekly lessons.
Due to the continued progression of this
course during the year, absolute beginners
cannot join it after the Autumn term.
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‘Amazing, interesting and very friendly
group all making great progress!’
WEDNESDAYS • 10.00am to 11.30am THURSDAYS • 9.30am to 11.30am
French – Intermediate French – Intermediate 3
Tutor: Marine Boulter Tutor: Marine Boulter
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 12 15 Sep £90 Autumn term 12 16 Sep £120
Spring term 10 12 Jan £75 Spring term 10 13 Jan £100
Summer term 11 27 Apr £82 Summer term 11 28 Apr £110
A very friendly class for This is a friendly
those who wish to focus stimulating class working
on improving their on conversational skills by
conversation skills, we sharing interests and
work on vocab and ideas on all sorts of topics.
grammar as well as using Working through texts,
texts, articles, videos and videos and different
quizzes which give us an activities to reinforce
opportunity to cover a wide range of topics in grammar, develop vocabulary and discover
current affairs, French culture and traditions. week after week a bit more about French
culture.
WEDNESDAYS • 11.45am to 1.15pm THURSDAYS • 11.45am to 1.15pm
• 1.30pm to 3.00pm
French – Beginners
French – Advanced Tutor: Marine Boulter
Conversation Weeks Starts Fees per term
Tutor: Marine Boulter Autumn term 12 16 Sep £90
Weeks Starts Fees per term Spring term 10 13 Jan £75
Autumn term 12 15 Sep £90 Summer term 11 28 Apr £82
Spring term 10 12 Jan £75 This class is for complete
Summer term 11 27 Apr £82 beginners with no or little
Come and join us in an knowledge of French or
informal friendly lively for those who would like
group of students to to go back to the basis.
converse with ease about The course uses audio
a wide range of topics, visual interactive activities
sample and share French which makes learning a
language and culture. language a fun and enjoyable experience.
Due to the continued progression of this
course during the year, absolute beginners
cannot join it after the Autumn term.
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Languages
TUESDAYS • 9.45am to 11.15am THURSDAYS • 11.45am to 1.15pm
Spanish – Improvers Spanish – Advanced
Tutor: Maria Perez Luis Tutor: Maria Perez Luis
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 12 14 Sep £90 Autumn term 12 16 Sep £90
Spring term 10 11 Jan £75 Spring term 10 13 Jan £75
Summer term 11 26 Apr £82 Summer term 11 28 Apr £82
This is a friendly class for This is a friendly class for
students who already students who have studied
have a basic knowledge Spanish for several years
of Spanish. We will be and therefore have a
covering further significant knowledge of
vocabulary topics as well vocabulary and grammar.
as grammatical points. In our lessons we will be
Students will also have the practising the four skills
opportunity to explore Spanish and Latin (speaking, listening, reading and writing) as
American culture and traditions through texts, well as exploring the culture of different
discussions, recordings and videos. Spanish-speaking countries.
TUESDAYS • 11.30am to 1.00pm MONDAYS • 2.00pm to 3.30pm
Spanish – Beginners German – Improvers
Tutor: Maria Perez Luis Tutor: Abigail Huffer
Weeks Starts Fees per term Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 12 14 Sep £90 Autumn term 12 13 Sep £90
Spring term 10 11 Jan £75 Spring term 10 10 Jan £75
Summer term 11 26 Apr £82 Summer term 10 25 Apr £75
This class is for complete This is a class for those
beginners who have no or who have a knowledge of
very little knowledge of German and are familiar
Spanish. We will be with the present, past and
covering common future tenses and talking
expressions used in about themselves and
everyday situations as their daily life. Using a
well as the basics of course book and
Spanish grammar. Speaking and listening additional materials, we will continue to work
skills will be emphasized in a relaxed and on all four skills and start to look at more
friendly atmosphere. advanced sentence structures and grammar
Due to the continued progression of this to be able to communicate effectively in
course during the year, absolute beginners Germany, Austria or Switzerland.
cannot join it after the Autumn term.
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MONDAYS • 3.45pm to 5.15pm
German – Beginners
Tutor: Abigail Huffer
Friends
Autumn term
Weeks Starts
12 13 Sep £90
Fees per term
of the
Spring term
Summer term
10 10 Jan £75
10 25 Apr £75 Settlement
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are learning German from The Settlement has a long
scratch, or who want to go tradition as a self-sustaining,
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the skills to be able to As such it values the work of volunteers in
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everyday life, working on reading, writing, Committee; organising outings; helping at
listening and speaking skills, as well as learning fund raising events, delivery of brochures;
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information about everyday life and celebrations decorating. If you have some time to
in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. spare and would like to be added to our
Due to the continued progression of this list of ‘friends’ please speak to the Office
course during the year, absolute beginners or a member of the Management
cannot join it after the Autumn term. Committee. You are not committed to
anything by doing so but you would
occasionally be asked if you could help,
WEDNESDAYS • 10.30am to 12.30pm e.g. with an event.
Russian – Beginners
Tutor:Vitali Vitaliev
Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 10 22 Sep £100
Spring term 10 12 Jan £100
Summer term 10 20 Apr £100
Aimed at complete
beginners with interest in
the Russian language and
culture, this highly
interactive and immersive
course will focus on
conversational everyday
Russian, with games,
dialogues and role-playing as main teaching
methods.
Due to the continued progression of this
course during the year, absolute beginners
cannot join it after the Autumn term.
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Creative Writing
THURSDAYS • 10.00am to 12 noon
Get Writing for All
Tutor: Elizabeth Barber Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 6 9 Sep £60
MONDAYS • 10.00am to 12 noon Autumn term 6 4 Nov £60
Weeks Starts Fees per term
Autumn term 6 6 Sep £60
Spring term 5 13 Jan £50
Autumn term 6 1 Nov £60
Spring term 5 24 Feb £50
Spring term 5 10 Jan £50
Summer term 6 21 Apr £60
Spring term 5 21 Feb £50
Summer term 6 9 Jun £60
These classes are ideal for
Summer term 4 25 Apr £40 anyone who enjoys writing
Summer term 6 6 Jun £60 or would like to start. No
experience is necessary.
The emphasis is on having
MONDAYS • 2.00pm to 4.00pm fun and through a
combination of reference to
ONLINE COURSE published texts, writing and
Weeks Starts Fees per term listening, confidence is built
in writing fiction and non-fiction. Short, optional
Autumn term 6 6 Sep £60 homework exercises are set weekly with
Autumn term 6 1 Nov £60 supportive feedback from the group for those who
find this helpful. Students can enrol at any half
Spring term 5 10 Jan £50 term, with most students continuing throughout the
Spring term 5 21 Feb £50 year.
Summer term 4 25 Apr £40
Summer term 6 6 Jun £60
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Fitness
TUESDAYS • 9.45am to 10.45am THURSDAYS • 6.30pm to 8.00pm
50+ Exercise to Music Hatha Yoga – Beginners
Tutor: Claire Smith Tutor: Pat Castell
Terms Weeks Starts Fees per class
This class will provide you
with one day’s worth of 3 10 16 Sep £6
the recommended 30
minutes’ moderate The practice of postures
aerobic exercise, in a fun to strengthen the body
and interesting workout to and increase flexibility,
music. A range of music concentrating on correct
styles is used to add positioning of the body
variety and motivation. Floor work is included and self-awareness within
– with standing or seated alternatives offered the postures.
– to work on muscular strength, endurance Please contact Pat Castell for further
and flexibility, important elements of exercise information on 01462 631676.
to aid daily tasks and maintaining Fees £6.00 per class, payable termly in
independence. This class is designed for advance, direct to tutor.
active “older” adults and has a wide age
range from late 50s to early 80s!
Please contact Claire on 07760 666594 to
check for spaces and dates.
TUESDAYS • 11.15am to 12.15pm THURSDAYS • 8.10pm to 9.40pm
Keep Fit Hatha Yoga – Advanced
Tutor: Jan Grimsey Tutor: Pat Castell
Terms Weeks Starts Fees per term Terms Weeks Starts Fees per class
3 12* 7 Sep £30** 3 10 16 Sep £6
A gentle/medium paced The practice, with
class of exercise to music, awareness, of precise
aiming to move and alignment and refinement
stretch the whole body. in all postures from basic
Some seated exercise is to the more difficult.
included, either on a chair
or a mat on the floor, if
preferred. To make the
class more varied, some weeks we use Please contact Pat Castell for further
stretchy bands or homemade “weights” for a information on 01462 631676.
small part of the session. The music is varied Fees £6.00 per class, payable termly in
and the main purpose of the hour is to have advance, direct to tutor.
fun and enjoy exercising. All ages and abilities
are welcome.
Please contact Jan on 01462 642248 for
more information. Fees paid termly directly
to the tutor.
* Approximately 12 weeks per term
** Approximate cost for 12 weeks
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