Our 16 to 19 year old students experience a longer school day, incorporating timetabled lessons, craft and pre-vocational workshops and life and independence skills activities, including accessing opportunities in the local community. The objective is to promote greater independence through a focus on practical and life skills in addition to the necessary key skills. Students follow individual timetables which take them through different learning settings on a daily basis—classroom, workshops, house-based independence skills, and off-site trips. Students have the opportunity to engage in community service activities at the school, and experience integrated activities with their peers from a local school.

Our workshops include green woodwork, gardening, estate and woodland care, felting, weaving, basket, candle and paper making. In addition to this we have developed a shop workshop, for meeting the needs of the school community, including vegetable and dairy produce deliveries. Elements of the curriculum are accredited through the EQUALS Moving On and AQA awards and learning steps are recognised through termly award presentations.

Each house community has a week-long residential experience week during the summer. Recent destinations have included Cornwall, Dartmoor, Italy, the Lake District and Wales.