CERTIFICATE IN PERSONAL PROGRESS

This course is designed specifically for students with moderate to severe learning difficulties who may also have disabilities. It supports students to develop the skills needed to live a more independent life and to move on to a further appropriate course. If you would like to learn more skills in a supported environment, then this course might suit you.

Sessions are delivered by specialist SEND teachers who differentiate learning to suit individual needs. All classes are small and well supported. The college Learning Support Practitioners will be on hand to provide group support during lesson time and breaks and where necessary they will be able to take care of any personal needs. You may also need to consider your arrangements for getting to and from college and discuss this with your careers advisor.

Applications to the course must be made with the assistance of your careers adviser and school and be supported by an Education Health & Care Plan (EHCP).

Key topics

• communication

• setting and achieving goals

• practical skills and creative activities

• personal, social and health education

• communicating with others 

• independent and group project work

You will

• take part in cookery, shopping, gardening  and other practical life skills

• improve your skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT

• develop your social skills and skills for supported employment

• learn how to stay safe out in the community

• design and make your own pieces of art

• take part in a social enterprise project selling goods you have produced

• choose from a range of extracurricular activities including sport, football and dance with some public performances