Young farmers, builders and chefs are being given the practical skills they need for workplace success.
Routeways is new learning scheme that offers a whole range of courses for young people who want to include more practical skills in their school timetable. On the Routeways menu of practical courses, young people can choose from hair and beauty, catering, sport, IT, gardening and construction among many others. All the courses focus on the skills young people will need in their working lives, offering an introduction to vocational study with clear paths for future development leading to apprenticeships or further training at college.
Here is a low-down of the four different programmes:
Routeways Tasters are for young people with special educational needs who may be attending local special schools. Learners can choose an area of work to explore in a hands-on taster session. Options include hair and beauty, construction, catering job skills, sport, fabrication and welding or childcare.
The Routeways Explorer courses offer students a choice from 13 skills areas. Explorer courses are ideal for learners who aren’t sure of the kind of work they are best suited to. Exciting learning options include creative media and art, ‘Help and Heal’, ‘The X Factor’, building skills, ‘Destination Hastings’ or ‘fit 4 life’. At the end of the two-year programme students get a BTEC Introductory Certificate in Vocational Studies.
Routeways Multiskills are for students who find the demands of a large secondary school hard to cope with and prefer a smaller more supportive environment. Courses on offer include Caring for Adults and Children, Garden Work and Design and Painting and Decorating.
Routeways Direct courses give learners the chance to achieve a recognised qualification in a specific vocational area by the end of a two-year programme. Art, media, engineering, hairdressing, electrics, catering, agriculture and horticulture are the options on offer for the learners.
Routeways has been designed for local young people by the secondary schools, with Hastings College of Arts and Technology, Bexhill College and Plumpton Agricultural College and Hastings Borough Council’s Tressell Training.
For more information, please contact Hastings & St Leonards Excellence Cluster on 01424 439340.
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This page last updated: 18/07/2006