Education

Adventure Care is registered as an education provider to children in our care and the child's educational needs are addressed as part of their Adventure Care Placement Plan.

As in most cases young people who attend adventure care are not currently attending school, therefore we have our own teachers who provide education. This enables us to provide a very high standard of education and allow the young person the chance to maintain their education level or start to gain education they have been missing out upon.

Many of the children who come to Adventure Care have encountered barriers to their educational growth. They may have been deprived of essential psychological experiences during their early life, which make it difficult to engage in the educational task. Family breakdowns often result in disruption and lack of continuity to school life. The experience of failure within the school environment can perpetuate a cycle of inadequacy, anxiety and an inability to cope.

Education is provided within a structured weekly timetable. Additionally, homework is set, which the staff monitor under the tutor's guidance, the staff may also support extra- curricular support for example educational visits

The aims of our school are as follows.

AIMS

To develop appropriate attitudes and responses to learning situations that enables them to see education as a worthwhile process in terms of their future lives and successes.
Helping the young people to get over anxieties of doing education.
To develop Personal Education Plans that support and challenge the individual's needs in conjunction with social workers.
To provide a broad curriculum based on the national curriculum and allowing for individual needs
To build confidence and self esteem
To enable the students to resume attendance at mainstream school wherever possible.
To evaluate the student's individual needs, and progress fortnightly.
Each child is given full access to education facilities, at both school level and in further or higher education as appropriate, wherever feasible and in line with the child's age, aptitude, needs, interests and potential.
It is the responsibility of the care staff to ensure prompt readiness to engage in education, that they arrive at each education site on time. The tutor will liaise with care staff and key workers to ensure that each child/young person have all the necessary equipment/resources.
To provide a broad curriculum based on the national curriculum and allowing for individual needs

Education works alongside the outdoor education programme, so that the young people are able to build in confidence and self esteem and realize they can succeed and achieve targets and goals. This also helps to promote social development with skills such as those in teamwork and communication. Additionally, this ties in with the work being done with the young person on there personal and social education, which will include sexual and health education and teamwork skills.

Sometimes young people can be re-integrated into mainstream education at a local school or integrated onto college courses.