Skills for the places life actually happens.
Our programme focuses on practical areas that can increase choice, participation, confidence and independence in everyday life. Activities are selected because of the skills they can develop, not simply to fill a timetable.
Cooking & Nutrition
Food preparation, kitchen safety, recognising ingredients, following familiar recipes, making choices, healthy eating, food hygiene, shopping and increasing participation in preparing meals.
Outcome examples: completing more stages of a meal, following a visual sequence, making a food choice or using equipment more safely.
Money Skills
Recognising money, understanding prices, shopping lists, budgeting, making purchases, checking change or digital transactions where appropriate, and connecting money with everyday choices.
Outcome examples: identifying a budget, locating an item, paying with reduced prompting or making a choice based on price.
Personal Care, Hygiene, Cleaning & Laundry
Personal routines, grooming, clothing, looking after belongings, sorting laundry, using household equipment, cleaning living spaces and building responsibility for everyday routines.
Outcome examples: following a hygiene sequence, organising clothing or completing more parts of a laundry routine.
Travel & Community Access
Road safety, traffic lights, public transport, journey routines, recognising landmarks, asking for help, shopping trips and becoming more confident accessing community facilities.
Outcome examples: recognising a stop, following a familiar route, waiting safely or communicating when support is needed.
Communication
Making choices, expressing needs and preferences, recognising images/objects, developing interaction, functional communication, turn-taking and using the communication approach that works for the Learner.
Outcome examples: making a consistent choice, initiating a request or using a preferred communication tool across more settings.
Digital Skills
Using everyday technology for communication, information, entertainment and independence. The focus is practical use rather than classroom-based computing.
Outcome examples: opening a preferred app, following a digital prompt, making a video call or using technology to support a routine.
Health & Wellbeing
Daily movement, cycling, tennis, nutrition, healthy routines, sensory regulation and developing confidence in physical and community activities.
Creative Expression
Music, dance, arts, crafts and supported creative activities that offer ways to communicate, participate, explore preferences and enjoy shared experiences.
Gardening & Nature
Planting, watering, growing, maintaining spaces, responsibility, teamwork, sensory engagement and understanding routines through practical horticulture.
Social & Community Participation
Group activities, games, community visits, local facilities and shared experiences that support relationships, choice, confidence, social participation and belonging.
The activity is not the outcome.
A Learner going shopping is an activity. Choosing an item, finding it, comparing prices, paying, communicating with staff and returning safely are the skills and outcomes we are interested in.
From practice to everyday life.
Where appropriate, the aim is for a skill to become useful beyond the session in which it was learned. That may mean practising a task in the Hub, rehearsing it in the Independent Living Room, then using it in a community or home context with appropriate support.
LEARN
Introduce the skill in an accessible way.
PRACTISE
Repeat it in realistic situations.
USE
Support transfer into everyday settings where possible.