Skills for Working Life

Certificate

Study mode Full time

Location Moulton

Level Entry Level 3

Start date Sept 2025

Duration 1 year

Awarding body City & Guilds of London Institute

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Designed for young people who have attended special schools or who have not attended mainstream education in the past, Supported Learning students have access to an exciting range of specialist resources at the College.

This course is the intended to help you gain skills in an area that you wish to continue your studies or to seek employment in. You will spend time in a vocational area as well as in the Supported Learning area of college studying skills for work and life.

You’ll be learning in small groups, led by a lecturer and supported in the classroom by our friendly Learning Support Assistants. You’ll get to stay in the same group for all of your subjects, apart from the vocational module, where you will be mixed with another group of students doing the same level, but still in small groups.

You will learn and develop a wide range of skills including communication skills, team building, problem solving and many more that will help you as you progress into adult life.

You will develop your English and Maths skills in a fun, interactive environment to prepare you for life after college.

Your lessons will be both in and out of the classroom. These will include: Cooking, Personal & Social Development, Preparing for Adulthood and your chosen vocational subject (Small Animal and Horse Care or Land-Based Studies including agriculture, countryside and horticulture).

As part of your PSD session you will do Travel Training in Term 1, Enrichment Activities in Term 2 and an individual Work Experience in Term 3 that relates to your vocational subject.

You will spend one day on vocational options in the various vocational areas of the college.

The other two days will be spent undertaking your Preparing for Adulthood, travel training, Maths and English, cooking and tutorials. You will spend a morning or afternoon out and about either travel training, undertaking enrichment activities or doing work experience.

Supported learning have rooms at the Pitsford and Main Site areas of college.

There is supervision at all times but students are encouraged to use the coffee shop or canteen for meals so will be in contact with other students in college.

The work you undertake within lessons will be assessed by lecturers at the time and you will be given verbal and written feedback. You may be asked to complete some work at home.

For Maths and English you will undertake Functional Skills or other appropriate written or computer based exams.

You can move to a Level 1 course in other areas of Mouton College or you can undertake a Supported Internship (if you have an EHCP).

Successful completion of the Introduction to Life and Work Skills course, or an interview to identify your skills and support needs.

During your studies you will be sustainability conscious using peat free compost to preserve peat bogs which are important to carbon sink. We will be using natural methods to control pests and disease, wash plant pots and reuse these to reduce plastic waste along with many other sustainability factors covered in the curriculum.

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