Education - Local, TV & Online
The education facilities detailed below are links to external websites. These links will typically open in a new tab. Helmdon Parish Council cannot accept any responsibility for the information or web links provided by external websites.
Click on blue text below for more information for each topic. For local education facilities please scroll down or click here.
TV Learning
BBC TV programs - From January 2021 new BBC educational programs are as follows:
- CBBC - 9am to midday weekdays - primary school ages
- BBC 2 - 1pm to 3pm* weeekdays - secondary school ages 11-14. * Hours may increase as programs develop.
BBC Bitesize - Many lessons for each school year. Available online (see below) or via the red button on your TV remote from BBC channnels.
Online Learning
BBC Bitesize - 'Learning at Home' covering a wide age range. Click here to get started.
BBC Teach - Free primary and secondary school teaching resources. Click here for more information.
BBC iPlayer Lockdown Learning channel allows access to many BBC educational programs.
OpenLearn - Why not trying one of OPEN UNIVERSITY's free courses https://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue
FutureLearn - Choose from hundreds of online courses from top universities and specialist organisations (online courses, some with chargeable extensions) https://www.futurelearn.com
Pre-School
Primary Schools
For information about other local primary schools use a web search, or try https://www.schoolguide.co.uk/primary-schools/Brackley - note that this external website contains advertisements.
Secondary Schools
- Chenderit School (Middleton Cheney)
- Magdalen College School (Brackley)
- Sponne School (Towcester)
- The Buckingham School (Sports College, Buckingham)
- The Royal Latin Grammar School (Buckingham)
For information about other local secondary schools use a web search, or try https://www.schoolguide.co.uk/secondary-schools/Brackley - note that this external website contains advertisements.
Further Education / Higher Education / Adult Education
- Oxford Brookes University
- Moulton College
- Northampton College
- Silverstone University Technical College (UTC)
- The Open University (OU)
- University of Buckingham
- University of Northampton
The above are a selection of local providers. For information about other providers please use a web search.
Adult Education - including courses not for qualifications
- Brackley & District U3A
- Northamptonshire County Council - Adult Learning Courses
Evening, weekend and daytime - "For life, for work, for wellbeing"
- Northamptonshire County Council - Learn 2 b
Learn2b courses are free of charge to anyone who is currently experiencing any form of mental health distress.
- Other Wellbeing Services
- Worker's Educational Association (WEA)
WEA National website