Skills for Life
The College is firmly committed to promoting Scope’s core value of equality. One of the ways we are achieving this is by adopting a Whole Organisation approach to Skills for Life.
Our aim is to support learners to develop and consolidate their existing skills to use in a variety of situations. Skills for Life goals are embedded within Creative Arts and Personal Development activities, although opportunities for discrete skills development are available if necessary with Skills for Life specialists.
Each Learner has these fundamental independence skills (communication, literacy, numeracy and ICT) embedded as progressive learning targets in all aspects of his/her Individual Learning Programme. All taught sessions and all the other events of everyday life are focused and integrated as high-motivation activities around the achievement of these goals.
Learners have access to Skills for Life specialist coaching for ‘brushing up’ their skills as required. This can be discrete support or support offered within sessions such as ‘Powerful Voices’ where learners write and publish articles for the college newsletter and blog (our online version of the newsletter).
Learners have the opportunity to develop skills for literacy, numeracy and ICT and work towards gaining a Functional Skills certificate in some or all of these subjects.
Having a ‘Whole Organisation Approach’ means that staff are also encouraged and enabled to raise their own Skills for Life standards, making us a highly competent workforce for supporting our Learners in every aspect of their College career.
