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- 14/12/22
Self-employment
Elaine from Job centre plus came to visit us once again - this time to talk about self-employment. She and the learners discussed how the North-East is a great area for self-employment. The amount of small enterprises has risen since lockdown, because people had lots of ideas and took a risk.Read Full Story - 14/12/22
Growing Independence
Learners are making incredible progress on their road to achieving EHCP outcomes and Preparing for Adulthood. All learners are working on the NOCN Certificate in Independent Living.Read Full Story - 05/12/22
Violence Reduction Unit: “We aren’t here to judge- we’re here to get people on the right path”
Of all recorded homicides in the year ending June 2022, the proportion of homicides where a knife or sharp instrument was the method of killing was 38%. (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingjune2022)Read Full Story - 14/11/22
“Lest we forget”
For Remembrance Day 2022 our learners made a ‘Remembrance Box’, where learners and staff could post the name of a lost loved one inside.Read Full Story - 11/11/22
Employer talk - Geoff Scott: Keepmoat Homes
During enrichment, we had the pleasure of a visit from Geoff Scott, Social Value Manager at Keepmoat Homes. Geoff gave our learners helpful advice on how to approach a job interview, telling them to “walk through the door feeling positive”.Read Full Story - 10/11/22
Learning about the Labour Market
The learners enjoyed a meeting with Elaine from the Job Centre, where they gained insight on Labour Market Information. The group learned how to look for jobs and how to apply, as well as how many job roles are available to them.Read Full Story - 20/10/22
Our Helpful Communities
In this final week of our first half term, Trinity Post 16 Solutions Ltd put their early travel training lessons into practice. So far we have looked at road safety, what we should do and what we should not do to stay safe.Read Full Story - 19/10/22
Counting the benefits of employment skills
Trinity Post 16 Solutions Ltd (TPSL) operates a tuck shop selling drinks and snacks to learners and staff. TPSL learners are responsible for all aspects of running the enterprise.Read Full Story - 19/10/22
Benefits of working
Trinity Post 16 Solutions Ltd (TPSL) are delighted to continue their working relationship with Project Choice. Project Choice not only offers progression opportunities through their Supported Internship Programme but also provide work placements.Read Full Story - 18/10/22
Keep calm and save a life
One of the four preparing for adulthood areas learners with EHCP’s work towards is how to remain healthy. Whilst looking after your own heath is very important you may find yourself at work or in the community faced with looking after the health of someone else. Trinity Post 16 Solutions Ltd...Read Full Story - 17/10/22
Order, order
Like it or not, politics controls and influences everything we do. Using ‘Votes for Schools’ in our enrichment session we reflected on previous Prime Ministers (of which learners had an impressive knowledge of!!) Some Trinity Post 16 learners are of legal age to vote with others fast app...Read Full Story - 17/10/22
Taking Stock
Running the tuck shop means taking stock of what items we have to sell and what needs reordered. Learners count items weekly and highlight. They organise into item type and count in multiples of 5. Jake started to estimate how many crisps or chocolate bars he thought were in a box then counted the a...Read Full Story