14-16 Skills Centre
The John White Skills Centre
Our purpose built centre represents a major new facility for hundreds of Key Stage 4 pupils around North Lincolnshire. Furthermore, it firmly signals our intent to continue building links with the secondary and special schools around the area.
"School pupils attend the college's specialist purpose built skills centre for vocational courses in many areas of learning…. Provision for 14-16 year olds is exemplary. The college has been particularly successful in transforming the lives and prospects of many young people through its innovative and highly successful work with local schools." OfSTED 2007
The John White Skills Centre is housed inside The Kingsway Centre, our corporate training facility, and provides dedicated classrooms, vocational training areas, ICT facilities and an outside recreational area.
We currently have in excess of 400 Key Stage 4 pupils enrolled on our vocational courses, all of whom benefit from our 30 years of experience in providing specially designed programmes for learners aged under 16. From September 2010 we will be extending our provision as we staff the brand new rural skills centre that is currently under construction in Barton upon Humber.
The skills centre enables schools to offer an extended curriculum choice at Key Stage 4 for their learners. The programmes of study within the centre are timetabled alongside that of each participating school.
Programmes of study
Every student who attends the skills centre has the opportunity to study for an industry recognised qualification. Within the centre we deliver courses in Motor Vehicle Studies, Construction Hair and Beauty and IT. In addition to these, students have access to and extended range of courses on the main college campus. These qualifications support a seamless transition into post 16 education and training.
Extended skills centre activities
In addition to the Key Stage 4 vocational curriculum offer, the skills centre supports schools in many different ways.
Primary STEM – The centre is proud of the support it offers to our local primary schools. We have developed a range of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) activities that support the curriculum delivery at Key Stages 1 and 2.
Transition Work – The skills centre supports local schools with the transition from primary education to secondary and from secondary to post 16.
International Partnerships – The skills centre has hosted two successful transatlantic partnership projects between schools in North Lincolnshire and schools in California USA. These projects have culminated in cultural exchange visits to Los Angeles for our students and return visits for the students from the USA.
