Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Building Better Opportunities/Better off Finance courses

  Wed 22 May 2019 Mr Youngman

  Enclosed are details of the Building Better Opportunities/Better off Finance  ‘My Turn’ courses which is open to all Knowsley Residents who are 18+ and unemployed.  The 2 day course is a great opportunity for someone to improve confidence and build on their self-motivation as well as tackle problem solving and think about behaviours.

   

  The course is delivered by our colleagues at The Womens Organisation and the Knowsley courses are being held at The Venue in Huyton (with lunch provided).  Anyone who wants to be signed up to our Better off Finance Programme can also claim back travel expenses to attend the course.

  

• Changes to universal credit

  Wed 22 May 2019 Mr Youngman

  Changes to the support available to people claiming Universal Credit will come into effect from 1^st April 2019.   From this date, Citizens Advice Knowsley will provide “Help to Claim” to people making a new claim for Universal Credit.  This support will be provided up until the first Universal Credit payment is received and will include:-

   

  ·       Universal Credit entitlement checks and support to start a claim;

  ·       Set up email and online Universal Credit accounts;

  ·       Verify identity (using the Department for Work and Pensions “Verify” system);

  ·       Referral on to longer term support (for example debt and housing); and,

  ·       Help to apply for ‘adaptions and easements’ (including direct payments to Landlords, more frequent payments and Advance Payments).

   

  Referrals to the “Help to Claim” service can be made direct by the claimant, who can ‘self-refer’, as well as by the Jobcentre, Local Authority, Housing Providers and other agencies.

   

  To access the service, residents need to call 0800 144 8 444 to arrange an appointment at a local Citizens Advice office.  As a Freephone number, the call is free from landlines and mobiles.

   

  For more information, go to the Citizens Advice Knowsley website which will be updated with details of the new service including links to the webchat service, a few days prior to launch.  

  

• Free adult short courses @ Knowsley community college

  Wed 15 May 2019 Mr Youngman
  Details of the latest free adult short courses at Knowsley community college can be found on the attached flyers.

  

• Prescot's Elizabethan fayre

  Fri 03 May 2019 Mr Youngman

  Enjoy a day of heritage entertainment at Prescot’s Elizabethan Fayre

   

  Prescot’s popular Elizabethan Fayre will return on Saturday 4th May and promises to be a great family day out with lots of new heritage attractions this year.

   

  Prescot has a unique history and heritage as it was the only place in England (outside of London) to have an indoor playhouse in Elizabethan times, and this wonderful cultural heritage will be celebrated at the fayre.

   

  A traditional parade will launch the festivities, at 11am, as the town commemorates its special history with medieval music, dance, arts and crafts in a recreation of its famous Tudor fayres.

   

  Visitors will be able to try their hand at many free traditional crafts including willow making and friendship bracelets using traditional twist cord and braid weaving. 

   

  Fayre-goers can also try their hand at wood turning and traditional pinch pot making. Children are welcome to take part in a free craft activity and make a ‘crown’ or ‘shield’ courtesy of Friends of Eaton Street Park.

   

  There will be demonstrations of traditional greenwood crafts including how to use a shave horse and draw knife and bodging on a pole lathe where visitors can have a go at helping to turn a spindle.

   

  Mucky Mountains Morris dancers will perform at different times during the day and spectators will have the chance to try out this traditional dance with some simple to follow steps from the troupe.

   

  Look out too for hilarious slapstick comedy performances from Imaginarium Youth Theatre’s masked players throughout the day. Birds of prey demonstrations and other family favourites like the circus skills workshops, exotic animals and native species for visitors to handle and face painting will be back again this year.

   

  There will also be heritage walks taking place around Prescot at 12 noon and 2pm (meet at Prescot Parish Church) with a halfway stop at the Bard for refreshments. New sponsors Armitage Construction, who are developing the Marketplace area in Prescot, will be hosting a traditional heritage trade skills stall featuring stonemasonry and joinery.

   

  Thanks to Prescot Town Council, Kier Construction, Ray’s bakers, Armitage Construction and The Deanes House pub for the different elements of the fayre they have sponsored.

   

  The Fayre will take place in and around Prescot Town Centre, Eccleston Street and Prescot Parish Church on Church Street from 11am to 4pm with free admission.

   

  The Producers’ Market and Arts, Crafts and Gift Fair will take place on the same day. 

   

  More pictures from last year’s Elizabethan Fayre are available on flickr: www.flickr.com/knowsleycouncil in our albums