Skills Development Academy

These sessions are designed to support your success within your apprenticeship and employment. It is a great way to develop your employability skills.

Core skills: Communication, teamwork and digital skills.

Personal development: Understanding your own behaviour and conflict management

Employability skills: Time management, customer service, and Microsoft 365 skills.

Check out the Skills Development Academy sessions that are available for you to book onto by emailing sda@lmc.ac.uk

Induction (February)

Delivered by: Amy Huntington and Daniel Waterhouse

Dates: 11 February 2025, 10am - 12pm

Online: 11 February 2025, 1pm-3pm

Navigating the first steps of your Apprenticeship and college journey:

Explore: Smart Assessor and Office 365 which will help you with your apprenticeship.

Understand: how you’ll work with your advisor/tutor and your employer to navigate & achieve your apprenticeship.

Visualise: Understand how you’ll work to achieve your apprenticeship.

Set goals: work out your first month’s goals.

Get ready to be fully clued up about your apprenticeship!

Contact: sda@lmc.ac.uk

Induction (March)

Delivered by: Amy Huntington and Daniel Waterhouse

Dates: 11 March 2025, 10am - 12pm

Online: 11 March 2025, 1pm-3pm

Navigating the first steps of your Apprenticeship and college journey:

Explore: Smart Assessor and Office 365 which will help you with your apprenticeship.

Understand: how you’ll work with your advisor/tutor and your employer to navigate & achieve your apprenticeship.

Visualise: Understand how you’ll work to achieve your apprenticeship.

Set goals: work out your first month’s goals.

Get ready to be fully clued up about your apprenticeship!

Contact: sda@lmc.ac.uk

Induction (April)

Delivered by: Amy Huntington and Daniel Waterhouse

Dates: 1 April 2025, 10am - 12pm & 22 April 2025, 10am - 12pm

Online: 1 April 2025, 1pm-3pm

Navigating the first steps of your Apprenticeship and college journey:

Explore: Smart Assessor and Office 365 which will help you with your apprenticeship.

Understand: how you’ll work with your advisor/tutor and your employer to navigate & achieve your apprenticeship.

Visualise: Understand how you’ll work to achieve your apprenticeship.

Set goals: work out your first month’s goals.

Get ready to be fully clued up about your apprenticeship!

Contact: sda@lmc.ac.uk

Induction (May)

Delivered by: Amy Huntington and Daniel Waterhouse

Dates: 13 May 2025, 10am - 12pm

Online: 13 May 2025, 1pm-3pm

Navigating the first steps of your Apprenticeship and college journey:

Explore: Smart Assessor and Office 365 which will help you with your apprenticeship.

Understand: how you’ll work with your advisor/tutor and your employer to navigate & achieve your apprenticeship.

Visualise: Understand how you’ll work to achieve your apprenticeship.

Set goals: work out your first month’s goals.

Get ready to be fully clued up about your apprenticeship!

Contact: sda@lmc.ac.uk

Induction (June)

Delivered by: Amy Huntington and Daniel Waterhouse

Dates: 10 June 2025, 10am - 12pm

Online: 10 June 2025, 1pm-3pm

Navigating the first steps of your Apprenticeship and college journey:

Explore: Smart Assessor and Office 365 which will help you with your apprenticeship.

Understand: how you’ll work with your advisor/tutor and your employer to navigate & achieve your apprenticeship.

Visualise: Understand how you’ll work to achieve your apprenticeship.

Set goals: work out your first month’s goals.

Get ready to be fully clued up about your apprenticeship!

Contact: sda@lmc.ac.uk

Induction (July)

Delivered by: Amy Huntington and Daniel Waterhouse

Dates: 8 July 2025, 10am - 12pm

Online: 8 July 2025, 1pm-3pm

Navigating the first steps of your Apprenticeship and college journey:

Explore: Smart Assessor and Office 365 which will help you with your apprenticeship.

Understand: how you’ll work with your advisor/tutor and your employer to navigate & achieve your apprenticeship.

Visualise: Understand how you’ll work to achieve your apprenticeship.

Set goals: work out your first month’s goals.

Get ready to be fully clued up about your apprenticeship!

Contact: sda@lmc.ac.uk

Ian Jones

Working in IT Management and Network Security for both industry and education has given me valuable knowledge within the IT sector. Over the past 20 years I have trained and mentored many IT Technicians and apprentices.

In a fast-moving sector it is important to adapt and embrace new technologies. AI is more than a sophisticated search engine and should be used to enhance teaching and learning in educational environments. This workshop aims to introduce you to AI and how to use it effectively and ethically in your work and studies.

Daniel Waterhouse

I have spent my career working in the Residential & Education childcare industry as a leader and within learning and development.

I have a keen interest in human behaviour and how this can be harnessed to support, challenge and manage individuals and teams to achieve.

I love a colorful and interactive PowerPoint presentation, and helping ignite lightbulbs above students heads!

Amy Huntington

Having started my career as a retail apprentice, moving onto study retail management, I have spent the past 10 years in the education sector. I thrive on delivering excellent customer service and my passion is to deliver training and development. I feel there is no greater sense of achievement than seeing others develop and prosper in their career.

As well as working as part of the apprenticeship team here at LMC, I also Lecture on the full time Business T-Level course.

GILLIAN NEWSHAM

I have been delivering a variety of Management and IT courses both in college and in-house for over 30 years, which gives a more flexible approach to access to training.

Having also developed my own business, I have been able to work with both small and large companies giving management support and developing their IT skills. This enables me to better tailor courses to the needs of the learners and give ‘real life’ scenarios when delivering both Management and IT courses.

I am a Microsoft Master, which gives me the opportunity to share with Microsoft my thoughts on the packages and their development for the future. I deliver Excel to Advanced Level and enjoy seeing the revelation on learners faces when they realise that Excel isn’t a mystery after all!

Andy Hall

I have spent the majority of my career in education and learning and development, focusing on business psychology, leadership development and experiential learning.

I have worked at all levels with some national and international companies but more recently have been focusing on smaller businesses within Lancashire, working with apprentices and T Level students.

I aim to make my sessions informative, engaging and interactive to maximise the benefit to learners.

Contact Us

Get in touch to suggest a new skills session or to find out more information by contacting sda@lmc.ac.uk