Education and Learning

View article Free Festive Skills Bootcamps this weekend

Free Festive Skills Bootcamps this weekend

Hull Training and Adult Education (HTAE) is urging residents to boost their careers and unlock their potential this festive season with upcoming Skills Bootcamps. The team will be hosting something magical at The Freedom Centre on Preston Road next weekend, with a visit from Santa and Mrs Christmas, as well as themed workshops and crafts. […]

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View article Improvements on the way for children and young people in north Hull

Improvements on the way for children and young people in north Hull

Children, young people and families on Orchard Park will soon be able to access further support thanks to significant investment. Hull City Council is using £525,000 of government funding to enable the refurbishment and expanded use of the former Courts Community building within the grounds of the Parks Family Hub on the estate. The project […]

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View article Young people to design Hull City Council’s Christmas card

Young people to design Hull City Council’s Christmas card

School children in Hull have been invited to create a design for Hull City Council’s official Christmas e-card. Posters are going up in primary and secondary schools, asking pupils to design a card with the theme of ‘Hull at Christmas’. Young people are being asked to come up with an entry that could, for example, […]

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View article HTAE learners hear of One Punch impact from survivor

HTAE learners hear of One Punch impact from survivor

Hull Training and Adult Education (HTAE) learners welcomed Paul Spence from Hull-based charity P.A.U.L For Brain Recovery during a series of inspirational talks. Paul, CEO and founder of the charity, delivered his ‘One Punch’ and ‘Rock Bottom’ talks to HTAE learners across the service’s training centres. Having suffered life-threatening injuries in 2012 due to a […]

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View article Remodelling works create SEND provision at Dorchester Primary

Remodelling works create SEND provision at Dorchester Primary

Remodelling of classrooms at Dorchester Primary School to accommodate Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) pupils have now been completed. The Bransholme school was subject to significant development which has created an additional 20 places for pupils with SEND. Remodelling took place over the summer holidays and were completed in time for the new school […]

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View article Frog bikes presented to Hull school students following safety campaign

Frog bikes presented to Hull school students following safety campaign

Hull City Council has presented four Frog Bikes to pupils at four schools, as awards in a competition held as part of the recent ‘Kid Alert’ programme. Kid Alert takes place each summer, with the aim of helping support pupils with the transition from Year 6 to Year 7. The event, which is administered and […]

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View article The Apprentice star delivers motivational afternoon to HTAE learners

The Apprentice star delivers motivational afternoon to HTAE learners

Hull Training and Adult Education (HTAE) learners were given the opportunity to pick the brains of Hull-based entrepreneur Megan Hornby during a recent motivational afternoon. Megan, who appeared on BBC’s ‘The Apprentice’, owns The Candy Shop on Newland Avenue and shared her experiences with Business, Creative and Digital apprentices at HTAE’s Craven Park Enterprise & […]

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View article Hull celebrates remarkable success with Multiply scheme

Hull celebrates remarkable success with Multiply scheme

Hull City Council is celebrating the success of a programme aimed at improving adult’s numeracy skills. The Multiply programme has dramatically surpassed expectations in its second year, highlighting its effectiveness and impact. Designed to enhance numeracy skills among adults, the programme significantly exceeded the original aims by 338% on learners participating in substantive learning, funded […]

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View article Open a book, open a world: children’s reading conference set to ignite curiosity

Open a book, open a world: children’s reading conference set to ignite curiosity

A conference dedicated to children’s reading will take place in Hull next week. The James Reckitt Reading Conference has been launched in conjunction with the year’s celebrations, commemorating 100 years since Sir James Reckitt died, in March 1924. The conference is aimed at a range of professionals involved in young people’s reading; including teachers and […]

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View article The Step in the Right Direction Hull Blog – Make May ‘a Month of Movement’

The Step in the Right Direction Hull Blog – Make May ‘a Month of Movement’

In his third post for ‘The Step in the Right Direction Hull Blog’, Paul Schofield, a tour guide in the city for more than 30 years, talks about how you can improve your health and wellbeing by taking a few small steps each day. May is very much the month of movement. With the weather […]

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View article Hull City Council offering cash bonus to new childcare practitioners

Hull City Council offering cash bonus to new childcare practitioners

Hull City Council has been chosen to take part in a new pilot scheme that offers a cash incentive to newly qualified or returning childcare practitioners. Back in March 2023, the government announced transformative reforms in childcare for working parents, expanding the offer of free childcare to more working parents. As a result, all local […]

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