Maidenhead & Windsor

Learn new skills at the new Windsor and Maidenhead Woodlands Park Village Centre – that’s the invitation to adults and children alike as the centre gets in on the learning act with the launch of its first evening and daytime courses.

Kick-starting the learning curve at Windsor and Maidenhead Woodlands Park are twice-weekly beginners IT classes in the centre’s new IT suite on Tuesday evening and Thursday mornings run by the Royal Borough’s Lifelong Learning team.

Aimed at people with little or no experience of using computers, the Windsor and Maidenhead classes will cover a range of skills from using a mouse and saving files to surfing the internet. The classes run every Tuesday for four weeks until December 11 from 7 – 9pm and Thursday mornings until December 13 from 9.30 – 11.30am.

Take-up for the Thursday morning class has already proved so popular that another four-week course is already lined up to start on Mondays from next week (November 26) from 9.30 – 11.30am.

Also “on the cards” are seasonal card-making classes to be run on Tuesday afternoons from 1 – 2.30pm, with the emphasis in the first course on designing and making Christmas cards using stamps, different-coloured inks and a variety of cutting techniques.

The IT and card-making classes cost £12 for a four-week course.

Also in the pipeline are mini-mover and drama classes for parents and their youngsters aged three and over organised by the borough’s family learning team.

Cllr Jesse Grey, lead member for Windsor and Maidenhead leisure and culture, said this week: “The Woodlands Park Village Centre is proving to be an exciting new facility in the heart of the Woodlands Park community.

“These new courses will provide even more opportunities for people to use the centre and help to develop the feeling of community even further. So why not sign up and learn a new skill!”

For further information about the courses – or to suggest other courses which could be held at the centre - contact Parwati Mistry of the borough’s Lifelong Learning team on 01628 796584.

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead