The A4e Education team at HMP Wayland and teaching staff from Poultec Training, both LSIS improvement partners from different spheres of education, are collaborating to share practice and develop the skills of staff.
As a not for profit training provider based in Doncaster town centre, we work closely with the local community offering back to work and employability programmes, including ICT training, personal money management and personal development. We have a wide learner base drawn from the unemployed; disadvantaged individuals; those not in education, employment or training and individuals with low skills and low confidence. Low levels of English and maths affect our
The company is facing the challenge of broadening the curriculum by providing English, maths and ESOL learning whilst maintaining the interest of current learners. As far as possible, this is going to be embedded into the current programme of studies. Our staff needed to develop their knowledge and understanding of embedding these subjects, and identify available resources that could be used within existing curriculums.
The priorities for our improvement project:
increase our understanding of the assessment process: both initial and diagnostic;
improve the planning of individual learning;
ensure individual learning plans are robust and truly individual;
raise awareness of individual learning needs, including dyslexia and ESOL.
Supported by new improvement partner South Sefton Development Trust (itself a voluntary organisation), the three organisations were all at different stages of development, but all shared a desire to benchmark their skills against national standards. This would enable them to demonstrate the quality of their provision more easily, to funders and learners alike.
For the learners at YOI, Ashfield we recognise that personal, learning and thinking skills must take equal weight with vocational studies and English, maths and ESOL. We needed to be able to help our staff with the transition from literacy and numeracy to
The establishment has participated in the Support Programme since 2009 and in that period the LLN team has looked at the improvement of maths teaching and learning, the introduction of Functional Skills and active learning strategies. The team identified improved behaviour management as a need within their action plan in 2010/2011.
HMP Oakwood is Britain’s newest prison. It is located next to the existing HMP Featherstone and HMP Brinsford near Wolverhampton and is named after an oak tree - the so-called ‘Royal Oak’ - thought to have been used by King Charles II to hide from Cromwell’s troops, in nearby Boscobel Wood. The prison is operated by G4S and, currently, the education contract is being managed by Milton Keynes College.
HMP North Sea Camp is currently an adult male open prison, categorised as ‘D' (the lowest security rating). Prison education is managed by Lincoln College, and classes and work related learning activities take place in the education block and in classrooms within vocational workshops. Prisoners also work on a wide variety of jobs within the prison, including kitchen, farm and buildings maintenance. Roughly 25% of the 382 prisoners currently at HMP North Sea Camp work outside the prison in paid or voluntary work.
HMP Bullwood Hall is a Category C training prison taking convicted foreign national prisoners serving four years or less, with two years or less to serve. HMP & YOI Chelmsford is a Category B male local prison taking adults and 18-21 year olds.
