Platinum Class is our post 16 class with students aged 16 to 19. The focus is on preparing for adulthood and developing independence. Our students are accredited for what they achieve through ASDAN. We value the importance of the transition for our students moving from school into adulthood. We aim to nurture our student’s ambitions and aspirations with real life experiences that aim to support their development and skillsets so they are able to fulfil their potential.

Our Post 16 setting was created for all of our students with the intention of developing their life skills and employability skills, whilst also providing an environment for physiotherapy and sensory based learning to take place.

Post 16 follow a three step programme that allows our students to experience the transition from being a student to learning and understanding the responsibilities and skills required as they move into adulthood.

Parent Partnership: We work in partnership with parents and carers to support your child’s development and enable you to feel fully involved in your child’s learning / next steps. All parents are invited to Education, Health and Care Plan reviews and we hold a parents’ evening in the year. We report progress towards EHCP outcomes throughout the year using learning outcome grids.

Learning Activities: Core skills such as English and Maths continue in a traditional classroom environment.

Preparation for adulthood takes place in our life skills area with a full kitchen, washing machine and dryer. Students learn to budget, shop in the community and on-line, cook and clear up.

We have a bedsit room where our students learn to make beds, keep a space clean, iron and relax. This includes an X-box, where they learn to game responsibly and share with peers.

Most of the learning takes place outside the classroom in a variety of work experience placements. Students swim once a week and built in to their learning in the community is a programme of travel training, so they learn how to get around the local area to access shops, leisure facilities and community services.

Platinum Class is our post 16 class with students aged 16 to 19. The focus is on preparing for adulthood and developing independence. Our students are accredited for what they achieve through ASDAN. We value the importance of the transition for our students moving from school into adulthood. We aim to nurture our student’s ambitions and aspirations with real life experiences that aim to support their development and skillsets so they are able to fulfil their potential.

Our Post 16 setting was created for all of our students with the intention of developing their life skills and employability skills, whilst also providing an environment for physiotherapy and sensory based learning to take place.

Post 16 follow a three step programme that allows our students to experience the transition from being a student to learning and understanding the responsibilities and skills required as they move into adulthood.

Parent Partnership: We work in partnership with parents and carers to support your child’s development and enable you to feel fully involved in your child’s learning / next steps. All parents are invited to Education, Health and Care Plan reviews and we hold a parents’ evening in the year. We report progress towards EHCP outcomes throughout the year using learning outcome grids.

Learning Activities: Core skills such as English and Maths continue in a traditional classroom environment.

Preparation for adulthood takes place in our life skills area with a full kitchen, washing machine and dryer. Students learn to budget, shop in the community and on-line, cook and clear up.

We have a bedsit room where our students learn to make beds, keep a space clean, iron and relax. This includes an X-box, where they learn to game responsibly and share with peers.

Most of the learning takes place outside the classroom in a variety of work experience placements. Students swim once a week and built in to their learning in the community is a programme of travel training, so they learn how to get around the local area to access shops, leisure facilities and community services.

One of our former pupils went onto City College and is now working one day a week as a volunteer on our primary site as a class assistant and one day at another school in the catering department. She has also taken part in the TRAX social Enterprise getting paid work in the hospitality and Catering area.

One of our pupils left Post 16 in Year 14 and moved onto Abingdon and Whitney College and began a ‘Pathway 1’ course, developing her sensory and communication skills

We have recently had one student who moved into supported accommodation with Style Acre and works one day a week at their charity shop whilst continuing her ASDAN studies further.

A student is undertaking a supported internship with Farm Ability to develop their horse care skills over the course of 3 months; once this has finished they will then be supported for 6 months, in a job that they have applied and be successful at getting, whilst they settle into their new role of employment.