Burngreave’s Learning Campaign is going all out to celebrate Adult Learners Week, starting with a Festival of Learning on 21st May (see advert on the back page). The activities continue throughout May – here are a few of the courses you can take part in…
Herbs for health
This taster course is designed to give people an insight into which plants can be used as food and even to improve health and well being.
Dandelion roots for instance are good for the liver; chick weed can add a new flavour to salads, and nettles can be brewed up into a refreshing tea. The course will explore plants people can grow in their own gardens – such as garlic, rosemary, mint and sage for herbal teas – and non-native plants, such as ginger can be added to the mix to create a range of herbal treatments. Run by a herbalist and an ecologist, the emphasis will be on the fact that many plants do have a use – and some can be an important element in holistic healing.
Native Plants of Burngreave and their Herbal Uses. Guided walk: Wednesday 18th May 2005. Meet at 6pm at Abbeyfield Park House.
Herbal Workshops: Wednesday 25th May and Wednesday 1st June 2005. Please book by 17th May 2005. Contact Burngreave Green Environment Programme on 278 9651.
Health & Beauty Day
Health and well being are also the key themes at a Health and Beauty Day for women at St Catherine’s School. Organiser, Rashida Hassanali, believes that the confidence that comes from a sense of well being is the key to looking good. She quotes the example of a woman who came to a reflexology session suffering from depression. The reflexologist identified the cause as a stomach problem and set the woman on the way to feeling better.
“We’re planning to look at a number of health issues on the day – comfort eating, body fat, and eating for well being, and offering some tasters as well – aerobics and yoga for instance,” said Rashida.
People can also find out about other courses offered St Catherine’s and at Firs Hill. They range from stress management to Tai Kwondo and from yoga to aromatherapy and reflexology.
Health and Beauty Awareness Day: Thursday 26th May 2005 at St Catherine’s School: Women only. Contact Rashida Hassanali on 0777 358 3699.
Telephone Skills
For anyone whose first language is not English, using the telephone can be daunting.
SPAT-C tutor, Pedro Fuentos, explained that when people are struggling with a foreign language they use their hands and their bodies a lot, and pick up clues through people’s body language and faces:
“When they use the telephone, none of those clues are there and they have to rely on language alone.The problem is that the telephone is increasingly the key to almost every service a refugee needs.”
Key tips on the course are:
Thursday 26th May 1.00–3.00pm.
To find out more about this and other SPAT-C courses contact Pedro Fuentes on 275 6815.
Firth Park Community Arts College presents Adult Education Classes
Mondays
Tuesdays
Yoga 4.30–5.30 pm (Free)
Pottery 5.00–6.30pm (Free)
Tae Kwondo 6.30–8.00pm (Free)
Hand and Nail Care 6.30–8.30pm
Wednesdays
Free Family Learning Day
Saturday May 14th 2005 10.00am–3.00pm
Free fun activities for all the family, lunch provided. For more information contact: Panni Poh Yoke Loh, Community Education Co-ordinator. Fircroft Avenue, Firth Park, Sheffield S5 OSD. Tel: 0114 257 4027
Learning with SCRAP
A guided tour of local recycling/ re-use groups. Friday 20th May. Meet 11am at Recycling Matters, 127 Spital Hill. Visits to: Welcome Home furniture service, Booler’s Biofuel, Sheffield Children’s Scrapstore and Green City Action’s Tool Bank, Toy Library and Biomass scheme.
Refreshments served at New Roots Café.
Car boot sale, Recycling and Compost Information Day: Sunday 22nd May. Gower Street Car Park 11am–4pm.
Silver Surfers’ Day: Friday 27th May. Drop into Recycling Matters to see what’s on offer for the over 50s.
For more information call 275 5055.