General Interest
Card Making
Design cards on computer with photos or ClipArt. Use creativity and number skills to make Iris and teabag cards. Write verses for your cards.
Scrapbooking and Journaling
Get started in the addictive art of scrapbooking. Use photos and embellishments to create your pages. Improve your writing by adding journals to your scrapbook.
Creative Writing
Read and discuss writing by different authors. Write your own pieces, which express feelings, explore different viewpoints and describe relationships. Opportunity to achieve SQA accreditation.
History: An Introduction
Introduction to local history in your area. Introduction to the academic study of history. Opportunity to examine historical sources.
Family History Research
Delve deeper into family history! Build skills in reading BMD certificates and finding clues from memorabilia. Use Internet resources and visit local history/archival organisations.
Digital Family Trees
Create a photographic family tree. Produce effective written records and portraits of family members. Become confident in scanning and working with image files.
Shetland Archaeology: An Introduction
By Video Conference. An introduction to Shetland archaeology from the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers at the end of the last Ice Age to the crofters of the 19th century.
Roman Archaeology: An Introduction
By Video Conference. Using archaeological evidence from across the Empire to explore aspects of Roman culture such as the military, homes, daily life, religion and identity.
Early Humans: Meet the Ancestors
By Video Conference. An introduction to human evolution, how we left the trees, became big brained and migrated throughout the world.
Psychology: An Introduction
Aimed at all levels. Course gives a broad overview of psychology. Key studies and theorists will be highlighted. Classroom debate/discussion encouraged.
Family Learning
How to make a number box, how to search the web for information for homework and how to make a photo story to record your children growing up.
