What will they do at the NEST?
They will get to decide what they do each day as long as they learn something from 5 different ares:
Life skills
How to be an independent adult when the time comes including:
- Budgeting, saving and spending money appropriately
- Feeding themselves and others
- Timekeeping
- Transport confidence
- Critical skills relating to social media and persuasive speech
- Political understanding
Community skills
How to find and build safe, productive communities including:
- Finding local groups or clubs they might enjoy
- Looking after the environment and spaces
- Setting up their own business
- Building honest relationships
- Planning events
- Supporting others and asking for support
- Having difficult conversations/talking with people they disagree with productively
- Promote themselves and things they care about on social media, in person and through other methods
Self-care skills
How to support their own health, including:
- Recognising and responding to emotions safely and kindly
- Self-soothing
- Identifying and appropriately enforcing their boundaries
- Building a positive relationship with themselves
- Looking after and listening to their body
- Reviewing progress towards goals kindly and ambitiously
- Finding out what their body can do through free movement
Creative skills
How to express themselves through creative activities including:
- Exploring new creative activities
- Researching to support creative projects
- Finding inspiration in everything
- Becoming less fearful in sharing what they make
- Exploring feelings and thoughts productively
- Communicating through art and creative projects
- Problem-solveing when they hit bumps in the road
- Recieving and giving feedback kindly and politely
- Evaluating their work
Learning skills
How to learn, be informed and be critical about anything they want to know about, inlcuding:
- Researching and knowing what is reasonably believable
- Improving search engine use to get more reliable results
- Questioning what they read or hear, considering who is saying it
- Recognising learning as a thing we all do rather than something you are forced to do at school
- Numeracy
- Literacy
- IT literacy
- Passing exams more easily (if they need to)
What they do will depend on what they are interested in and what skills they need and want to develop.
At lunch they will either be part of the team making lunch or cleaning up after lunch. Please contact us if they have a food allergy or intolerance, sensory issues around food or eating issues.
At the end of the day they will look at what they have acomplished in the day and have a chat about how the day went for everyone.
Please see timetable for information on timings.
What can they wear to the NEST?
Anything they are comfortable in but we cannot guarantee that it will not get dirty or wet between art activities and outside play. In cold weather, please send them with a coat and a hat/scarf/gloves as they will wear. In hot weather please send a cap or other sunhat.
Who is at the NEST?
There are two full time staff: Aoife and Joy. Then we have staff and volunteers and up to 7 other learners.
What should they take to the NEST?
Only things that you and they are prepared to get damaged/stained/broken. If there are fidgets or support items they find helpful, feel free to bring them. You will be asked from time to time to collect specific things for them to bring in for craft projects (kitchen rolls, empty jars, egg boxes). You never have to and if it is not easy for you to collect the item, there will be spares for all learners. Please make sure they only bring in chargers that are in good order and safe.
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