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Our mission at WM College is to provide diverse, enriching, and enjoyable lifelong learning, including skills for work, in a supportive environment for adults in Camden and the local area.
The Multiply maths scheme is the perfect example of how we achieve this. The programme provides regular FREE maths workshops held at the College as well as within the community to help adults improve their understanding of numbers and numeracy for everyday life.
Recently, the WM College Multiply team ran a series of workshops at called ‘Eat Well, Pay Less’ which aimed to help participants gain numeracy skills to plan shopping budgets, measure ingredients, and control portion sizes to support healthy eating for the whole family.听
We met up with Felicia, a WM College Multiply Learner, to hear about her experiences and how taking the time to invest in herself has opened up more doors.
I enrolled on the course to help with my obesity and general bad food habits.听My local council-run gyms recently became privatised which meant I was no longer able to access nutritional and fitness advice as easily.
Measurement mostly. I didn’t have the knowledge of what 10g actually looks like or general cooking knowledge like how big a teaspoon measurement is.听When we used the scales, I saw 3.6g and realised that I don鈥檛 know what that looks like.听 I needed to learn more about portion sizes as well.听
Having completed the course at Castlehaven I felt more confident and inspired to听visit WM College.听I鈥檓 proud to say that I鈥檝e just started a maths course at the College, through the Multiply scheme, which will prepare me to move on to a GCSE maths course. Not having a maths qualification has held me back in lots of ways in life.
Yes!听It was brilliant to have the link with Castlehaven, having done the course there it really encouraged me to push myself a bit further. In the past it鈥檚 been too big a step. I鈥檝e tried lots of times to enrol but decided it鈥檚 not for people like me. Having had bad experiences of education in the past I was put off going back into it and it鈥檚 affected lots of things in my life such as looking for work, so it鈥檚 brilliant now that I鈥檓 here and I shall encourage others to do the same.
If you鈥檝e ever struggled with maths or want to improve your numeracy skills for life and work, WM College Multiply team can help. All the courses are free to London residents who do not have the basic UK maths qualifications that most employers require.鈥疌lick here for more information or contact Peter Whitehead at鈥�peterw@wmcollege.ac.uk.听
