A THURROCK school has been offering ICT sessions to mature students in a bid to promote lifelong learning.The Grays School Media Arts College has played host to students from the Thurrock group, University of the “Third Age” (U3A).
The students, who are all over 60, attended the after school hours sessions and learnt a range of skills depending on previous experience.
U3A organiser, Maggie Whitbread, said: “Our students were very grateful, some of them just needed the confidence to know they wouldn’t break the PC by using it, whereas others wanted more advanced skills like website design and video/picture editing.”
The course was divided into three levels of experience, beginners, intermediate and advanced, with over 70 students attending the nine week course.
Further sessions are planned for next year.
The workshops were provided as part of an ongoing community programme supported by the schools specialist college status.
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