What You Will Study

Our Phoenix Purple Employment Pathway offers our autistic students the opportunity to develop the confidence, skills and experience required to begin to consider a future in employment.

You will undertake a range of mandatory subjects which help develop the core skills required for work whilst at the same time choosing from a range of optional subjects that support wider skill and knowledge development. Ypu will have the opportunity to work with Course Leaders and a Job Coach to volunteer as a group and to undertake individual work experience.

As part of your course, you will cover the following mandatory subjects:

• Planning and Progression (target setting and discussing your targets and progress)
• Communication and Confidence development
• Personal and Social Development including: Citizenship and Wellbeing
• Work Related Study (including working with a job coach, volunteering and work experience)
• Life and Independence Skills - Practical Living Skills, Cooking and Healthy Living
• Functional Skills or GCSE English and Maths, at a level that is appropriate level for you
• Travel and Independence (TITAN Travel Training)
• Wellbeing Fridays.

In addition to this you will also get to choose from a list of optional subjects to personalise your timetable and learning experience. Optional subjects on this pathway can change each year but some examples are:

• Art, Textiles and Photography
• Business of money making
• Enterprise and customer service skills
• Environmental Studies
• Film and Creative Writing
• Humanities
• Learning for Work
• Music
• Out and About- Community Access
• Performance
• Practical Budgeting
• Purple Press
• Sport and Leisure

The group size will be eight to 10 students and you will be in college for four days a week.