Beatrice Tate School is committed to Work Related Learning as a means of preparing students for an effective transition from school to adult life.
The three key concepts of the Work Related Learning curriculum are:
Capability (exploring the world of work and practising work and life skills)
Exploring what it means to be enterprising.
Learning how to manage money and personal finances.
Understanding how to make creative and realistic plans for transition.
Risk (recognising the risks in some situations, making safe choices and communicating the need for, or refusal of, help)
Understanding risk in both positive and negative terms.
Understanding the need to manage risk
Taking risks and learning from mistakes.
Economic understanding (managing money and personal finances)
Understanding and accessing the local and online economic and business environment.
Understanding the functions and uses of money.
At Beatrice Tate School, Work Related Learning key concepts are taught across all Key Stages through Tutorial, PSHEE&C and Maths units and through everyday tasks, jobs and responsibilities.
In Key Stage 4 and 5 Work Related Learning is delivered as a timetabled subject through the following 3 strands:
School community work skills e.g. work and enterprise projects including paper craft, gardening (garden-to-plate programme), textile and clothing processing and manufacture.
Work and finance in the local community and online e.g. using and managing money in the community; online and market-stall marketing and retailing;
In-school and out-of-school work and community experience e.g. market-stall sessions in school and the local community; work shadowing; and/or appropriately supported work experience.
The Work Related Learning curriculum also supports and develops students’ knowledge, skills and abilities to facilitate effective transition to post-school provision such as New City College (formerly Tower Hamlets College) – Move On and Encounters programmes and Social Services day provision.
Work Related Learning is overseen by a member of the Senior Leadership Team as part of the Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHEE) curriculum team.
