- Our Mission: To enrich, to educate and to inspire young adults to flourish, empowering them to create their own futures.
Our Vision: A world of bright futures and exciting opportunities for people with SEND.
Sedgwick College (based within the Penn Hall Mansion in Wolverhampton) proposes to provide an exciting, inspirational and professional educational route of progression for 14-19-year-old students with special educational needs and disabilities from early entry level 1 through to level 2 and beyond.
Offering a varied and individualised curriculum with high quality teaching and learning, students will have the opportunity to specialise in a variety of different career pathways in practical and vocational settings both within and outside of the college, developing in skill sets and knowledge that enables independence and effectiveness in life, learning and work.
At the heart of the vision, we will ensure students are nurtured and given ample opportunities to flourish vocationally, becoming well equipped and prepared for independence and meaningful, paid employment in their future lives.
Sedgwick College Proposal
Students at Sedgwick College will enjoy a high-quality education in which they will develop their Literacy and Numeracy skills; personal character; social and emotional management; life skills; as well as the knowledge and skills in a specialist career pathway course. The curriculum pathway will be individualised and matched carefully to each student’s needs and ambitions for the future and will be offered from entry level 1 through to Level 2. The planned specialist career pathway courses on offer for years 1-5 are:
- Retail & Enterprise
- Hospitality & Catering
- Horticulture & Floristry
- Creative & Performing Arts
- Animal Care
- Media & Technology
Creating lasting change in the employability of special needs/disabled people, the college will give students access to practical and vocational experiences across the wide range of specialist career pathways, providing innovative skills-based training and well-preparing students for the workplace.
By developing exciting work experience settings within the College that will be open to the public such as a charity clothes boutique; tea room and café; vegetable allotment; florist; animal husbandry; Garden Centre; and a technology studio, students will develop their knowledge and skills rapidly, putting them into practice daily. Paired with a plethora of business links and relationships, a wide variety of employment and apprenticeship opportunities will grow and students will have ample opportunities to work with the wider community and develop their social skills and interaction.
How will we use money raised?
The Sedgwick College provision is proposing to be housed within Penn Hall Mansion on the Penn Hall School grounds. The college, whilst retaining the beautiful architecture and history of the building, will offer high quality and accessible teaching and communal spaces, as well as work experience rooms and facilities spread throughout the ground floor and external grounds.
Projected costs to develop the building and grounds are £400,000 and so all money raised will go towards this and additional resources needed to make our vision a reality for the future of our students!