The Bridge/ Y Bont

The Bridge/Y Bont is a welcoming centre, based on nurture group principles that supports learners holistically from years 7 to 11 who are struggling emotionally, socially or academically or have become disengaged with school. In our KS3 room, we work with learners to develop life skills, literacy, numeracy and social communication. We also work on confidence boosting, anger management, anxiety management and behaviour issues. These skills will help to support them in their lessons and day to day lives. At KS4, we continue to work on these skills but work more academically, with several vocational qualifications offered and support through GCSEs.

Key Stage 3

Our class offer a short-term, inclusive, focused intervention that works in the long term. Children attend the KS3 room but remain an active part of their main class group, spend appropriate times within our class according to their need and typically return full time to their own class within two to four terms. We assess learning and social and emotional needs and give the necessary help to remove the barriers to learning. As the children learn academically and socially they develop confidence, become responsive to others, learn self-respect and take pride in behaving well and in achieving.

Emotional Literacy Support

What is Emotional Literacy?

Understanding and coping with the feelings of ourselves and others
Developing high self-esteem and positive interactions with others
Being emotionally literate helps children focus better on their learning

How do we deliver Emotional Literacy?

A regular slot during the school week
In a quiet/private area
Sessions can be individual or in a small group, tailored to the child’s needs
Sessions are fun and might include role-play, puppets, board games, art and
crafts and stories

This support is delivered in a caring, relaxed, compassionate and fun way.

Art and Crafts

We use Art and Craft because:-

1. Crafting almost always provides a stable foundation for future learning.

2. One of the most important aspects of learning to craft is the self-esteem boost. To teach a child to sew, knit or draw for instance, is to teach them to create. It is about showing them they are in control of their environment. Holding a familiar tool in their hand will build a great deal of confidence.

3. Through crafts children can learn self-regulation. Projects that require drying, require also waiting. What is cool though, is that waiting will be worth it and they will be satisfied with the end result of all their efforts.

5. Crafts teach flexibility. Opposite to maths, there is no wrong way to approach crafts. They teach children that there is more than one way to utilize their creativity and talents and there are always more than one right answers. Isn't it the same in life?

6. Crafts promote bilateral coordination. This means that they use both their hands, which will be useful later in life.

7. Arts and crafts are a great platform for self-expression. Just like all of us, kids need to express themselves and as they grow their identity will be more in need of manifestation. Through arts and crafts they will be able to communicate it visually in a very healthy way.

8. It helps problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, while encountering with different challenges and projects. Solving these will teach resourcefulness.

Talk About - Well Being

Talkabout is a complete programme that develops self-esteem, social skills and friendship skills using a booklet called "Let's Talk for Teenagers"

This core talkabout practical resource is packed with activities and games for developing social skills.

Social competence is an essential key skill and this structured tool helps development of these essential skills in body language, communication and assertiveness.

This has proven to be effective at improving learners self-esteem and understanding of their emotions

Key Stage 4

Learners who attend Broadhaven for the Key Stage 4 provision are able to gain qualifications in a variety of courses and subject areas. We use small group settings and often use external providers to work with us to ensure our learners achieve their full potential.

Sweet*

Sweet PSD Qualification

Sweet* is a range of innovative resources that support learners to develop important life and employability skills, and to achieve a fully accredited Pearson Edexcel BTEC qualification in Personal and Social Development.

Sweet* BTEC Level 1 and Level 2 in Personal and Social Development

The resource combines key themes from the PSE Curriculum including:

Understanding Personal Identity

· Managing Relationships

· Healthy Living

· Moving Forward

· Money Matters

Complete teaching and learning support, and resources for the Welsh Baccalaureate Skills Challenges including Community, Enterprise and Global Citizenship are also included.

BTEC

BTEC Level 1/ Award/certificate in work skills and vocational Studies

All learners taking these qualifications will study core units that focus on key transferable skills such as research and planning, time management and working with others. Learners will also take a number of sector units. The content of the sector units allows the delivery to be practical and active in order to engage the learners. For vocational studies, the units offered are from a range of sectors and cover topics and activities such as investigating crime scene evidence, creating an animation and serving food and drink.

Entry Level Maths

Entry level maths

Our Entry Level Mathematics – Numeracy specification will assess the mathematics that learners will need in their everyday lives, in the world of work, and in other curriculum areas.

It provides learners with a broad, coherent, satisfying and worthwhile course of study.

4 practical tasks

4 In-class tests

1 External Exam

Entry Level English

Entry level English

Step up to English helps Entry Level students build basic and relevant literacy skills and is suitable for students of all ages. The specification is fully co-teachable with GCSE English Language. The assessment is on demand, with certification twice a year, so students can complete assignments when they're ready.

Component 1: Literacy topics (x2)

Component 2: Creative reading and writing (x1)

Welsh Bacc

Welsh Baccalaureate – Skills Challenge certificate

The Welsh BaccalaureateThe Welsh Baccalaureate, or Welsh Bacc for short, is unique to Wales.

It has been introduced to prepare students between the ages of 14 and 19 for employability, further study and life. A student is awarded the Welsh Bacc by completing the Skills Challenge Certificate - an innovative skills-based qualification along with achieving a specified combination of qualifications.

This specification provides learners with an opportunity to achieve two qualifications. Depending on the level of the learner, they can achieve the Foundation Skills Challenge Certificate.

The Skills Challenge Certificate is a standalone qualification. It can still be achieved and awarded even without the other qualifications that make up the Welsh Bacc. The top element of the Welsh Bacc. wheel is the Skills Challenge Certificate which has been designed to provide a vehicle for 14-16 year old learners to consolidate and develop essential and employability skills. The qualification will help learners to prepare for their future by developing skills, attributes and behaviours valued by post-16 educators and potential employers.

The Skills Challenge Certificate consists of 4 components:

Individual Project (50%)
Enterprise and Employability Challenge (20%)
Global Citizen Challenge (15%)
Community Challenge (15%)

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