The course  will allow learners to develop confident, effective communication skills across Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening applied in real-life work or every day scenarios. The course is designed to help learners progress from basic literacy skills to higher competence, preparing them for further study, Employment or practical daily activities.

Learners can gain transferable skills that are applicable in the work place for communication, official documentation and understanding texts in a variety of contexts.

Learning outcomes include:

1. Speaking, Listening and Communication:

• Contribute to discussions and make presentations in varied and unfamiliar contexts
• Present information persuasively, adapt communication to purpose and audience, and support discussion development.

2. Reading:

• Select and analyse texts from multiple sources to gather relevant information, ideas, arguments, and opinions.
• Identify audience, purpose, points of view, bias, and implicit meaning; compare and summarise effectively.

3. Writing:

• Produce extended written documents conveying information, ideas, and opinions clearly and persuasively.
• Use a range of styles, structures, and sentence forms (including complex sentences and paragraphs).
•  Apply accurate spelling, punctuation (including commas, apostrophes, inverted commas), and grammar, ensuring work is fit for purpose and audience.

This course will take place on Fridays– 25th September 2026 – 18th December 2026

This course is open to learners with few or no qualifications aged 19 years plus (in August ’26) working at Entry 1 – Entry 3

To enrol or for further information,  please contact Carol Griffiths on 07341 882755 or email carol.griffiths@bristol.gov.uk

Further info : Parking is limited so may need park on main road