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Alternative route to qualifications

Living skills for those not in formal education

At Creative in Excellence, students are able to select a wide range of modules to match their interests, hobbies and abilities. These could include food technology and outdoor education (Agored Cymru qualifications).

By building up a range of unit credits, students can soon access qualifications that are equivalent to GCSEs. Learning and achieving through this medium is fun and accessible to all learners.

Some subject areas include:

  • literacy skills
  • employability skills
  • essential skills for work & life
  • application of number
  • communication
  • independent living skills
  • I.T user skills
  • bullying
  • anger management
  • money
  • self confidence
  • skills for independence
  • work related education participation
  • a range of specific career focused units are also available.

Additional activities:

At Creative in Excellence, we can ‘mix and match’ core subjects and qualifications with a range of other ‘softer’ activities to meet the learners learning style, including:

  • Duke of Edinburgh
  • gym sessions
  • outdoor education activities
  • Forest School
  • Woodland Skills
  • art workshops
  • drama
  • public speaking
  • life skills
  • CV writing
  • mock interviews
  • confidence building workshops
  • first aid
  • food hygeine
  • staying safe online

Benefits

Students will:

  • form positive relationships based on mutual respect
  • demonstrate effort and empathy by adopting differing roles within a team
  • be confident to communicate and express their ideas and emotions
  • trust in themselves and others
    show determination to identify and grasp opportunities
  • show persevereance to think creatively to reframe and solve problems

This will suit…

Students who:

  • suffer with anxiety, health problems, poor communication skills, confidence issues, anger management issues
  • find the constraints of main stream education challenging

Outdoor education

At Creative in Excellence, we recognise the power and impact that team work challenges can offer. By offering small (max 8 pupils) team work activities via outdoor education, young people can suddenly develop skills relating to numeracy, navigation, health & safety, leadership, communication, first aid, health & wellbeing, and self-belief.

All activities are offered via trained and fully qualified instructors. Activities may go on to include Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award.