Pathway 2 - Personal and Social Development and Introduction to Employment
- Ammanford Campus
This is an entry level programme designed for learners who may find a typical classroom environment challenging.
It is an introductory course designed to encompass each learner’s individual needs, in a safe and nurturing environment.
The course will develop learners’ independent skills, encourage positive health and wellbeing, provide employability skills and community volunteering opportunities and is designed to help build confidence in everyday living.
Course details
- Full time
What you will learn
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Programme features
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Programme content
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Progression and employment
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Method of assessment
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Entry requirements
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Additional costs
Personal and Social Development
This course is based mainly around the idea of work, volunteering, home and the community.
As well as a diverse range of independent living skills, learners will undertake a programme involving the Four Pillars of Learning. This programme is designed based on a person-centred approach to meet individual needs.
Based mainly around the idea of the home, leisure and community, learners will be looking into skills needed to run a successful home and will carry out work/volunteering. They will need to demonstrate a more independent approach to learning as part of this course.
Skills will be based around cooking, cleaning, ironing, presentation (personal and home), budgeting, types of contact, safety, shopping (food and household).
The community aspect will examine each learner’s local community and their individual needs. Sessions will focus on facilities (local, county, further if needed), transport, travel based on social reasons and personal choice, safe use of ICT based technologies.
Introduction to Employment
This course will follow the directives of the Introduction to Employment Pathway 1 course to ensure continued upskilling. The main focus will be skills needed to carry out effective employment and learners will be expected to demonstrate a more independent approach to learning.
Learners will examine the various employment opportunities in their local area, transport, training and costs associated with starting employment. The employment cycle will be within the community or based onsite. These opportunities will give realistic practical sessions and embed what has been taught within the teaching sessions into ‘real life’ situations.
By studying on this programme, learners will:
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Take part in person centred planning of their individual programme, identifying their existing strengths and areas for relevant skills development within the four pillars framework.
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Agree realistic individual targets for their programme of learning.
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Engage in practical learning activities within each of the areas of the four pillars framework
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Work to make progress on their individual targets through learning activities that are relevant to their current lives, their transition to adulthood and their aspirations for the future.
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Work to make progress on individual targets that maintain, develop and improve communication skills, numeracy skills and digital literacy skills through activities embedded within the four pillars framework
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Take part in person centred reviews of their learning, identifying progress made against individual targets and agreeing next steps
Courses have been designed to be based around the four pillars which are:-
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Independent Living Skills
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Health and Wellbeing
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Community
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Employability
Communication, numeracy and digital skills support will be embedded into the sessions.
Following completion of this course learners could stay on Pathway 2, internally progress onto Pathway 3 or move on to external agencies.
There will be a system for setting clear, individual, SMART targets and for monitoring and reviewing progress against these targets using the RARPA approach (Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement).
Programmes will also be flexible enough to adjust targets and activities where this is necessary. Learners will be supported to collect evidence in different ways, to demonstrate and assess their progress against their targets within the four pillars.
Regular reviews against set targets will be undertaken with each learner to look at this progress and to set new targets where necessary.
Whilst programmes may include a small amount of accreditation where appropriate for the learner, the main focus will be on providing activities which reflect individual learners’ needs.
There are no formal entry requirements however an offer of a place on this course is subject to a successful outcome from a series of transition meetings and a referral from Social Services, School Additional Needs Coordinator, Special schools, Independent specialist schools and colleges and Careers Wales.
Learners will also under-take a baseline assessment.
All learners are required to pay an administration fee of £25 prior to enrolment.
You will need to provide your own stationery and may also incur costs if the department arranges educational visits.