What we get up to?

Independence

From cooking and using appliances and utensils to getting about safely we work on lots of skills to enable our learners to become as independent as they can be.

Learning new skills together
Preparing soup
student setting the timers on a microwave in the kitchen. Preparing for adulthood means knowing your way around the appliances in your kitchen.
Independence skills to use kitchen appliances
More dishes!
Lots of herb and veg prepping
Checking our supplies
Making soup
learner placing banana bread mix in the oven to cook. Independent living skills in knowing how to cook as well as use ovens is extremely important.
Using the oven and developing our independence skills.
Sweeping up
Making our first cup of tea and coffee
young man reading shopping list in b&m
checking our shopping list
Chopping for soup making
Chopping skills
Hoovering
Peeling Veggies
Doing dishes together with friends
Keeping your home clean
Putting out the bins
Shopping
Having fun
Ordering and paying for our own lunch

What do we get up to in the classroom?

learner sat at desk in classroom with blank picture of a clock and whiteboard pen to write the time on the clock after picking up a digital time on a piece of card. Telling the time digitally is easy, but we encourage learners to expand their knowledge and look at analogue time too.
Learning about time
Tea breaks
young man sitting at table completing a matching exercise from analogue to digital time. Telling the time is part of preparing for adulthood.
Analogue to Digital
Work, work, work
learner standing in front of very large machinery that used to be used in mining at Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen. Enrichment activities include exploring local history
Exploring local history
More teambuilding
happy smiling student at costa with coffee and cake. This allows him to be part of the local community whilst practising his money skills
Using Money Skills in everyday life
student practicing his dance skills
Arts Awards dancing
2 students and teacher raising their hands in the air, saying 'yes'
celebrations during Arts Awards
young man in white t-shirt pretending to start a car
Acting skills
Matching exercises
The teaching and learning wall
Wordsearches for fun
two students and teacher standing and talking
Arts Award practice
Making learning fun
Working together with peers
learner sitting at desk in a classroom taking part in a 'what's the time?' game. We encourage learning through fun and embed functional maths and english rather than formal qualifications in this area. This image also shows you what we get up to
Time games
Teambuilding
young lady sat at blue table doing a matching exercise of analogue clocks to digital clocks. Telling time is part of maths/numeracy and we embed this into our programme.
Digital to Analogue
Learning doesn’t always take place sitting down!
Communication and fun for our Arts Award
Making our own recycling station
Learning about recycling

Our classroom and lots of outside space

  • log cabin classroom with lots of windows and pot plants outside. Our classroom is not quite the traditional classroom, it is our beautiful log cabin. Lots of wood and a homely feel bursting with lots of fun, support and confidence building.
    Learn2 Cornwall classroom
  • picnic area with gardens
    Picnic area
  • grassed picnic area with benches and wooden swing. Lots of outdoor places to eat our lunch and take time out to enjoy some downtime.
    More picnic areas with a swing that we can enjoy whilst having some downtime.
  • large grass area with far reaching rural views of fields. In the foreground pictures of fencing and a wooden swing. Having lots of outdoor space to explore and take time out. It is great for those who may suffer from anxiety to be out in the country with peace and quiet.
    Rural views with a calm and tranquil environment.
  • picnics
  • blackberry picking
  • blackberries
  • blackberries
  • blackberries
  • Making friends
  • Simply enjoying being outside