Good Health and Work Skills

Pathway Overview

The Pathway to Good Health and Work Skills provides each learner with an individualised curriculum that meets their needs set out in their Education Health Care Plan (EHCP). The pathway focuses on supporting learners to gain employability skills and work experience, to enable them to gain paid employment or a voluntary position. This pathway also incorporates developing life skills, understanding and developing relationships, communication skills and social skills within the weekly timetable. The individual curriculum will ensure all learners’ individual needs are met and the learners will have access to our Therapy provision if and when required. Each learner within the pathway has an Individual Learning Plan (ILP). This is based on baseline assessment information and will include long and short term outcomes, and individual objectives that are specific, meaningful and relevant to each individual.

Pathway Intent

To use the Preparation for Adulthood (PfA) Framework to offer a person centred, creative and challenging curriculum that is co-produced with the learner. To embed English, maths and ICT, British Values, Prevent and Safeguarding through-out the curriculum. The curriculum strands from the PfA that this pathway focuses on are:

Good Health

Health
Wellbeing
Mental Health
Diet
Sensory needs
Emotional Health
Sexual Health
Managing own Health needs

Independent Living Skills

Independent Living Skills
Personal Safety
Online Safety
Travel training
Mental capacity and choice making
Finances
Transitions
Managing own living

Employment

Careers advice and guidance
Following rules, advice and guidance
Paid employment
Voluntary work
Enterprise
Understanding benefits
Accessing support from the JobCentre
Planning for further education
Employability skills
Qualifications

Pathway Implementation

Learners in this pathway have the correct staffing ratio that is relevant to their needs
Learners have termly objectives that are worked on weekly, and are linked to their short and long term EHCP outcomes. Their objectives will be displayed at all times in the classroom, and in their work books.
Learners will engage in both individual and group work
Learners will access the community and other pathways where relevant
Learners will have various voluntary/paid work opportunities linked to their ambition and interests
Learners will work with therapists where relevant
Individual Learning Plans will detail the implementation for each learner termly
The learners in this pathway will complete activities that are meaningful to them and their individual lives
Each learner has a timetable that meets their individual needs and covers the four areas of the PfA framework. This timetable will include the objectives they are working on for the lesson
Learner objectives will be displayed in the classroom alongside the timetable
At the beginning of each session or activity, the learner will be told the objective they are working on. They will review the same objective at the end of the session or activity and provide feedback through their individual means of communication
Teaching and support staff will also provide the learner with written or verbal feedback
Learners will be stretched and challenged at every relevant opportunity, details of how each individual is being stretched and challenged will be in their ILP
Learning will be sequenced to ensure each learner can build upon previous knowledge and skills. This will be evident in the planning on their ILP
Differentiation will be evident and will be dependent upon learner needs. The differentiation will ensure that all sessions and activities are accessible and achievable to all learners
Teaching will be adapted where necessary, to provide differentiated approaches to ensure all learners can access activities and sessions
Resources will be prepared in advance and adapted to meet individual and communication needs
British Values, Prevent and Safeguarding will be embedded into the curriculum. Evidence of embedded content can be found on the ILP
Learners will have access to maths and English lessons if relevant to their needs and outcomes

Pathway Impact

Learners will make progress towards their individual objectives, short and long term outcomes on their EHCP
AQA Unit Award Scheme
Progress will be monitored through Databridge, written and verbal feedback following the ‘what went well, even better if’ feedback system
Individual Learning Plans will be updated with progress for each learner termly
Work Experience diaries will be completed daily and work placement observations will be completed termly.

Pathway Destinations

Voluntary work
Paid employment
Supported Living