Laura's Story
South Park Enterprise College, North Lincolnshire
South Park Enterprise College provides an alternative educational programme for those students who are at risk of exclusion due to their challenging behaviour. The curriculum is tailored to the individual needs of students, with an emphasis on personal development in order to develop skills for employability in adult life. The curriculum is predominantly educational, vocational and business-linked and this enables students to make progress both academically and in the personal qualities needed to meet the demands of adult life.
Laura's Story
The Deputy Head of a local secondary school approached the college because they wanted to involve one of their students in our work-related learning programme, whilst also allowing the student to continue with some of their GCSE work back at their mainstream school. The father of the student in question had a very negative opinion of our work-related learning programme and activity related curriculum. The college agreed to support the student by establishing a work placement programme for them in child care work, which would run part time on days when the student was not attending her mainstream school. Unfortunately the pupil’s behaviour deteriorated and she had to be placed in the college full time. Her work placement programme continued in a nursery and she began a Diploma in child care to support this. At the end of the year Laura was offered a job at the nursery because of her success. Laura’s father admitted that, although he had originally had reservations about the curriculum offered by the college, he could now see why it was so successful in engaging the 'hard to engage'. The Deputy Head of the school Laura had originally attended stated that, “if Laura had stayed with us she would have been permanently excluded and would have achieved nothing.” Today, Laura is choosing between applying to train as a primary school teacher or as a speech therapist for children at the University of Lincoln .
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