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+ Adult Learnersā Week, runs from Saturday May 11 to Friday May 17.
+ It sees thousands of events nationwide celebrating adult learning and is a great opportunity for people to turn lifelong ambitions into reality.
+ Adult Learnersā Week is celebrating its āTen Years Onā anniversary in 2002 with more chances than ever to take part.
+ This year the week also leads people into a month long opportunity to take a āBite Sizeā chunk of learning through May and June.
+ There will be events in town centres, shopping centres, libraries, pubs, schools and colleges.
+ Festivals, taster classes, street theatre and roadshows will give everyone the opportunity to get a taste for learning at a time, pace and place that suits.
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See ACET website for details of Gloucestershire adult learners events. Alternatively pop into your local college, library or adult learning centre, or 0800 542 1655 to find out more.
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|  | Like most parents, 38-year-old Helen Yarworth, from Newnham, found looking after three boys more than a little stressful ā but she got some much-needed help in the form of parenting courses held at her childrenās school. "I was lucky because the headteacher knew we were having a stressful time and suggested the course - I had never heard of Parentline Plus courses before that," recalls Helen. 
All this has happened because I was a stressed-out parent and tried to do something about it.
 | | Outstanding Adult Learner award nominee Helen Yarworth |
"The courses were free, and they were local, and immediately we all felt the benefit because I got the help I needed to cope." The courses were so successful that Helen became interested in working in education and helping children. She went on to do a certificate in learning support and now works as an education leader at the local Dean Heritage Centre. At the same time she trained with Parentline Plus so that she could go on to help other families benefit from the courses. "Nobody tells you what to do, itās all about working out ways of coping with behaviour and issues so that you raise your childrenās self esteem ā that way, everyone benefits." Before having her family, Helen was a radiographer but she was not tempted to return. She says: "This is the best job for me now. It combines everything I am interested in, local history and children, and it fits into school term times. "And all this has happened because I was a stressed-out parent and tried to do something about it!" |
