Glyne Gap School

Travel Training involves students learning how to use public transport within the local community, mainly on buses, sometimes walking, and occasionally on trains. Students also learn road safety and how to keep themselves safe, for example 'stranger danger' and how to use a mobile phone. Most students use Travel Training to enable them to independently get home from college or to give them the chance to get out and about with friends. Travel Training always encourages independence but also boosts confidence, provides choices and opportunities and is fun.

Work placements give students the chance to experience different types of work so that, when leaving college, they are empowered to express choices and tell people what it is they are good at and like doing. Placements range from cafes to care homes, museums, schools and shops. Students are initially supported by the Faculty work placement co‐ordinator, but soon become independent workers within the employment, learning new skills and gaining confidence whilst having the chance to be part of a work team.

Throughout the school and the faculty we aim to develop our students' independence providing them with breadth of purposeful experiences to practice functional skills that will make a real difference to future lives.

What is learned at Nursery and School is the foundation to support the next level of development at the faculty, transferring independence, autonomy and problem solving skills into real life situations. The Glyne Gap flat is an exceptional tool to support this process.