Life Skills

Supporting our students to have the capacity to learn fundamental skills that will offer a better understanding of social, emotional, and cognitive capabilities, to problem solve and achieve their goals.
We focus on 5 key skills to include:

Focus and Self-Control: Students need this skill to achieve their goals, especially in a world filled with distractions and information overload. We focus on teaching them key skills including paying attention, exercising self-control, remembering the rules, and thinking flexibly.

Perspective Taking: This involves our student’s understanding of how others think and feel and forms the basis for the student’s understanding of the intentions of parents, teachers, and friends. Students are less likely to get involved in a conflict when these feelings are understood and recognised.

Communication: Being one of the most lacking in today’s society, communication is so much more than understanding language, reading, writing, and speaking. Communicating is the skill that determines what one wants to communicate and realising how it will be understood by others.

Critical Thinking: This skill supports our students to analyze and evaluate information. Students need critical thinking to make sense of the world around them and solve problems.

Self-Directed, Engaged Learning: By setting goals and strategies for learning, our students, hopefully, will become attuned and better prepared to change as the world changes. Fostering their curiosity to learn and realise their potential.

P.S.H.E.

We have now added a PSHE award. We believe this to be a very important part of our young students’ knowledge and mental health wellbeing. The world around us is changing and it’s important we offer the tools necessary for our students to feel safe, be able to move on into the wider community, and be in control of their Social and emotional wellbeing.  

What is it?

The PSHE Short Course has been updated to help provisions meet the requirements of the new statutory guidance for sex, relationships, and health education

Course Content

The Short Course is split into 11 modules:

• Emotional wellbeing
• Keeping safe and healthy
• Social media
• Alcohol
• Tobacco and drugs
• Sexual Health
• Respectful relationships
• Families and Parenting
• Financial choices
• Careers and your future
• Living in modern Britain

This course follows a curriculum suited to our learners and allows them to leave with a clearer understanding of their next steps. We offer this course to all our year 10 and above.

(Parental acceptance of this delivery will be obtained before commencing)