Step Up Programme - Highbury College

The Step Up Programme is to develop social and life skills to help 16 to 19 young people into work or to progress to a full-time college course. ITC, numeracy and literacy is embedded within this programme. This Programme took place at off-site venues at the Hillside Youth Centre, Paulsgrove and St. Lukes training Centre, Portsmouth.

I run this programme from April 2005 to May 2006. Students took part in designing a calendar 2006, team challenge events at Fort Purbrook and Fairthorne Manor, clay modelling, art work shops, and cookery amongst several projects.

This programme involved various units, Personal Development, Group and Teamwork, Improving Assertiveness and Decision Making, Budgeting and Money Management, Cookery, Healthy Living, Sex and Relationships,
Creative Crafts and Preparation for Work.