This workshop highlights the importance a sense of ‘belonging’ for all of our children and young people in order to ensure that they are able to engage in a purposeful, healthy and engaged lifestyle to ensure all individuals develop into successful and independent adults.
The curriculum offer for statutory aged children and young people must be able to meet the needs of all learners. In preparing each individual for future employment, the learning experience needs to emphasise and place a high value on broader life skills. The workshop outlines how vital it is that the learning programmes embrace emotional and physical literacy to complement and enhance academic progress. It will share how and why the curriculum model for the future needs to integrate the strengths from the variety of approaches that have emerged for some of our most vulnerable learners. It demonstrates how a rich cultural experience enables real, consistent relationships to be placed at the heart of education, to help model, support and include each young person.