Alternative Provision Learning Centre

Our Offer

The New Leaf Centre takes learners aged 11-17 and provides personalised alternative provision to holistically support students with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) or Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties (SEMH), for a maximum of 17 hours a week. Some students find they are unable to reach their potential in a mainstream setting and simply cannot cope in a classroom environment. The use of successful alternative provisions find that these students thrive in more therapeutic surroundings and benefit from participating in animal assisted projects.

Services

Mentoring and therapeutic support is provided on a one to one basis to inspire and support disengaged young people to build foundations and make their first steps to embrace opportunities, build strong relationships and build the confidence and self-esteem they need to become successful learners.

Each learner has their own personalised curriculum built around their specific needs and interests, this will be constantly assessed to ensure that there is a correct balance of nurture, support and challenge.

Personal Development Programmes

Engaging in therapeutic activities is an essential part of our approach. By incorporating nature-based and animal-assisted interventions, we create a nurturing environment where children and young people can thrive.

As an ASDAN registered centre, we use the highly successful Personal Development Programmes (PDP: Bronze, Silver and Gold) which offer imaginative ways of developing, recording and certificating a wide range of young people’s personal qualities, abilities and achievements, as well as introducing them to new activities and challenges. All the programmes link to nationally recognised qualifications and have been successfully used by centres for more than 20 years.

SHORT COURSES

We offer a whole range of ASDAN short courses which are flexible, portfolio-based programmes which accredits activity and skills development across a range of topics and curriculum areas.

Below is a small example of the courses on offer:

Animal Care, Environmental, Gardening
English, Mathematics, Science
PHSE, Citizenship, Personal Finance
Computing, Hospitality
Enterprise, Leadership
Sports and Fitness, Activities and Peer Tutoring

Functional Skills

COMING SOON

As an organisation, we continually strive to improve the services we offer. We will soon be offering functional skills (English and Mathematics)