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Foundations for Learning & Life – Adults

Duration

1 year

Location

Rush Green Campus

Starting

Sept 2024

Audience

Adult 19+

Careers

Horizons

This course is designed for learners to gain further employment opportunities within the community.

Our delivery focuses on the practical element by empowering you to take part in different community activities.

You may have special educational needs and disabilities such as behaviour emotional and social difficulties (BESD) Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), mild learning difficulties (MLD) and moderate learning difficulties (MLD) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and opposition defiant disorder (ODD).

The course prepares learners to have an awareness of being able to work towards independent life skills. Focusing on planning, budgeting, money management, building social skills and forming links with the wider community. Work related projects that learners part-take in are linked with the community, offering opportunities in voluntary work along with the benefit of travel experience.

Life skills such as cooking focuses on building on embedded literacy and numeracy skills with topics such as writing shopping lists, planning routes, weighing ingredients, purchasing ingredients.

On this course, you will learn:

  • Communication
  • Number Skills
  • Work Experience
  • Life Skills
  • Community Engagement

Your Individual Learning Plan will be designed to meet your needs and develop the skills that will help you make progress towards your future goals.

This course is designed for young people from ages from 25+.

Please note that all applicants go through an assessment/interview process to ensure that they are offered the course that is best suited to them

On completion of this course, you will be able to progress onto a higher-level qualification.

Where it can lead to
You could progress to the following courses
Career progression

There are number of routes you can take following successful completion of a course. Further study can include Higher Education courses or a Higher Apprenticeship where you will expand your skills through study whilst earning a wage. Or you may choose to move directly into employment.

Contact our careers team for further guidance.