Humanities
Religious Education at The Orchard Centre is designed to provoke challenging questions about the ultimate meaning and purpose of life, beliefs about God, the self and the nature of reality, issues of right and wrong and what it means to be human.
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It offers opportunities for personal reflection and spiritual development. It enhances students’ awareness and understanding of religions and beliefs, teachings, practices and forms of expression, as well as of the influence of religion on individuals, families, communities and cultures.
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RE has an important role in preparing young people
for adult life, employment and lifelong learning.
It enables students to develop respect for
and sensitivity to others, in particular those
whose faiths and beliefs are different from their own.
It promotes discernment and enables students to combat prejudice.
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At KS4, students follow the AQA GCSE in Religious Studies (Specification A), studying units on:
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Christianity
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Sikhism
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Relationships and families
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Religion and life
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Religion, crime and punishment
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Religion, human rights and social justice
Lawnswood Campus
The Orchard Centre
Lawnswood Campus
Nightingale Home and Hospital Service
Information for Young People Parents & Carers
Values and Ethos
The Orchard Centre aims to provide an educational experience which will enhance and support a return to mainstream education where appropriate
The Orchard Centre seeks to achieve these aims by:
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• Creating a meaningful, caring, stimulating and safe environment which will enable students to address their particular issues.
• Providing a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum with particular emphasis on literacy and numeracy.
• Providing individual learning programmes according to students’ needs, in order to enable a return to mainstream education or to another educational establishment which would better cater for their particular needs.
• Encouraging students to raise their self-esteem, and to value themselves and others, fostering the values of friendship and determination.
• Providing assessment opportunities where they can evaluate their progress against national norms and that of their peers.
• Encouraging students to take increasing responsibility for their own actions and for their learning and their futures.
• Working closely with parents/carers, schools and support agencies to ensure the students are given every opportunity to succeed.
• Promoting a positive and responsible attitude towards our community, the wider local community and that of society in general.
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We seek to minimise the disruption to our students’ education and offer an enriching and enjoyable experience, helping to reduce anxiety about school work.
Who we provide for
Full Time Placements
The expectation is that all students who attend The Orchard Centre attend full-time. During the initial meeting with parents and appropriate professionals an individual plan is agreed to integrate the student into the Centre. This is then reviewed after four weeks. Students are expected to follow a full timetable and to be part of a form group.
Re-Integration Timetables
Careers Information, Guidance, Advice & Connexions
CAREERS INFORMATION, ADVICE & GUIDANCE
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Lisa Selvey is our personal Connexions advisor at the Centre. She is available to guidance and advice about careers and applications.
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Alternatively, you can contact Connexions
Tel. Office: 01902 773040
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Lisa.Selvey@wolverhampton.gov.uk
Connexions Wolverhampton
118 Salop Street
Wolverhampton
WV3 0RX
Connexions can help you and give you friendly, practical support to:
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· Improve qualifications
· Learn new skills
· Find job vacancies
· Apply for College, Apprenticeships and Traineeships
· Write a CV
· Help with job interviews
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Find out more at www.connexionswolverhampton.co.uk
College links
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Access to Music
http://www.accesstomusic.co.uk/
Birmingham Met College
BOA
Bournville College
Dudley College
Halesowen College
New College, Telford
Sandwell College
South & the City College
South Staffs College
Walsall College
https://www.walsallcollege.ac.uk/
WMPTC (Military College)
Wolverhampton City College
Wolverhampton Vocational Training Centre
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Apprenticeships links
The Apprenticeship Centre (Construction)
http://www.apprenticeship-centre.co.uk/
3AAA
Babcock Training
https://www.babcockinternational.com/What-We-Do/Training/Vocational-and-Apprenticeship-Training
CITB (Construction)
http://www.citb.co.uk/citb-apprenticeships/
EEF (Engineering)
https://www.eef.org.uk/apprentices
GTG (Motor Vehicle)
HIT (Catering & Hospitality)
Jaguar/Land Rover (Motor Vehicle)
www.jaguarlandrovercareers.com
http://www.jaguardealerapprenticeships.com/
JTL (Construction & Engineering)
Juniper Training
Kaplan (Accountancy & Finance)
https://kaplan.co.uk/apprenticeships-and-internships/
Ladder for the Black Country
http://www.ladderfortheblackcountry.co.uk/
LEMA (Engineering)
Mercia Management (Business & Engineering)
NHS
http://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/work-with-us/apprenticeships/
NOVA Training
http://www.novatraining.co.uk/
Performance Through People
http://www.ptp-training.co.uk/
Peter Pyne Training (Hair & Beauty)
http://www.peterpynetraining.co.uk/
Princes Trust
https://www.princes-trust.org.uk/
Reflections Training Academy (Hair & Beauty)
Skills Training UK
http://www.skillstraininguk.com/
Succeed
Walsall Training Centre (Construction)
http://www.walsalltraining.com/
Wolverhampton Homes (Construction)
https://www.wolverhamptonhomes.org.uk/aboutus/working-for-us/get-into-work/leap
A few useful links
About Youth (What’s on in Wolverhampton)
Aim Higher
Base 25
Kic FM (Youth & Community Radio)
The Way (Youth Zone)
http://www.thewayyouthzone.org/
World of Work (Labour Market Information)
WWFC Community Trust
http://wolvescommunitytrust.org.uk/
YEAR 10 WORK EXPERIENCE
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As part of our programme we expect all our students to undertake high quality work placements.
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The Education Business Partnership provides a range of services to employers and schools in order to support learners undertaking quality work experience/work based learning activities.
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EBP
Wolverhampton Education Business Partnership
Ground Floor, Civic Centre
St. Peter’s Square
Wolverhampton
WV1 1RR
01902 555277
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