(Please note this is just the proposed draft curriculum (updated May 2022)-to give prospective learners an idea of what is planned)
What Learners can expect:
- To choose from a broad offering of subjects so each learner can develop their own curriculum to meet their developing needs.
- To develop living skills and independence through a practical and community based curriculum, designed to build confidence in a manner of settings
- To develop functional communication skills
- To develop a sense of self and how interpersonal skills can be developed with successful community living and working in mind
- To be challenged in the pursuit of personal growth
- To be encouraged to become active participants
- To become equipped with the most appropriate, relevant and recognized accreditations
- To enjoy a host of enrichment activities and therapies where appropriate
Core curriculum
The Learning2Live curriculum is built around three key areas.
- Personal Development
- Further Education and Accreditation
- Work experience & Employability
These themes are woven into all three years of the course, yet each aspect receives a sharper focus as leaners progress through the course on an annual themed basis. The course has been specifically designed in terms of size and family feel to allow a smooth transition onto the course and to ensure each learner receives as much support as possible across all fronts.
This is achieved through around the clock care to facilitate and support personal development, through the introduction of suitably qualified and experienced academic tutors to ensure choice and flexibility through an academic pathway. And through the highly regarded and well-established employability and work experience channels that R2W have developed so successfully.
The Open Award Scheme has been specifically chosen as our academic pathway for a number of reasons but most notably due to their relevance to our learners needs, due to their accreditation status from an employers perspective and due to the flexibility and choice it allows our tutors and therefore leaners as they navigate through a bespoke academic program both in terms of level and content.
The Open Awards
YEAR 1 – A Smooth Transition towards Living Independently
The Learning2Live team’s primary objective will be to ensure the transition onto the course is as smooth and successful as possible. The focus on Living Independently will allow our pastoral team to acclimatize our learner to their new environment and first-rate facilities whilst introducing a choice of enrichment and therapeutic options as appropriate. It also allows our tutors ample time to begin relevant work around Living Independently through our Open Award Scheme.
Year 1 Independent Living
Internal accreditation by R2W
Focus: Living Independently
Example Topics :
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- Looking After Yourself and Home
- Personal Care & Hygiene
- Food & Drink Preparation
- Using Domestic Appliances
- Living in the Community
- Knowing your local area
- Getting about safely
- Hobbies
- 125 Learning Hours
- Internally Accredited
- Learner Diaries
- Staff – evidencing outcome
YEAR 2 – The Exciting Possibilities of Employment
As our Learners become more settled both in their environment and with their tutors, they can further explore their own aspirations. This includes continued progress through the academic Open Awards pathway, gaining further accreditation as a level best suited to the learner, whilst beginning to explore the possibilities of employment. This might be the beginnings of a better understanding of what employment might entail or require or it may well be a leap straight onto a supported internship and the exciting pathways The R2W scheme already has in place.
Year 2 Open Awards Entry Level 3
Accreditation: Extended Certificate for Further Learning and Employment
Focus: Employability
The Year 2 content will be structured, delivered and accredited through The Open Awards. Focussed on employability and pitched at entry level 3. We have chosen the, “Employability and Professional Development,” award, with learners gaining sufficient credits to be accredited at the “certificate,” level.
- Curriculum Vitae writing
- Job Applications
- Job Search
- Preparing for a Recruitment Interview
- Problem Solving Skills for Work
- Speaking and Listening at Work
- Dealing with Difficult situations at work `
- Understanding Professional Relationships
The above will require approximately 130 learning hours, matching the requirement of year 1 (Note- It is a draft proposal and there are other unit options). The Open Awards detail a list of specific learning outcomes which need to be evidenced for each unit. How these are to be achieved is down to the discretion of our tutors.
YEAR 3 – Choices, choices, choices; Higher Education or continued Employment
In their final year, learners will be continuing their personal development in terms of living independently and having established a better understanding of their community and how they can best become a part of it. They will have also built the necessary skills and support to seek, secure and successfully contribute to the world of employment. At this stage they, alongside their pastoral and academic support teams, they are set to decide for themselves whether they would like to focus their final year efforts on further education or further employment.
Year 3 -Open Awards Level 1
Accreditation: Certificate
Focus: Bespoke to the Learner
Example Topics:
- Developing Own Interpersonal Skills
- Specific courses under the following areas
- Employability / Health & Wellbeing / Literacy, Numeracy & ICT
- Animal Care / Building & Construction / Business Admin
- Catering & Hospitality / Customer Service / Digital Skills / Hair & Beauty
To discuss any of the above drop James an email james.wright@right2work.org.uk
