Welcome to Keats Engineering & Education Ltd
Creating a brighter future for all
We are specialist educators in engineering, construction, sports coaching, motor mechanics and preparing for adulthood.
Giving young people an alternative to mainstream education.
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Based in Pontefract, West Yorkshire.
In proud partnership with Pontefract Collieries FC & Keats Site Services LTD.
Genuine career pathways through excellent curricula and pastoral care
Keats Engineering & Education Limited in partnership with Pontefract Collieries Football Club opened our Alternative Provision for pupils in Years 6-11 in September 2021. Since then, we have worked with pupils who struggle to access mainstream education and our students and ourselves have gone from strength to strength.
We are specialist educators in engineering, construction, motor mechanics and sports coaching who provide an alternative to mainstream education. Our staff have a wealth of experience of helping young people realise their career goals and we also offer 1 to 1 football coaching to build young people's confidence.
We offer genuine pathways for the children when they reach 16 and finish High School in study programmes. Through funding from the Local Authorities we work with we provide children and young people with EHCPs (Education Health Care Plans) with post 16 courses that prepare them for next steps and employment.
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To see all the Post 16 courses we offer please have a look at our Post 16 Specialist Provision section on our website.
Curriculum Intent
The intent of our curriculum is to prepare young people for the world
of work.
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Young people who struggle with mainstream education need help to
develop an awareness and understand what types of behaviour are
and are not acceptable in the workplace. Young people need the
opportunity to develop and deepen their understanding of these
behaviours through first-hand experience. They must be given the
time, space and understanding to make mistakes so that we through
therapeutic techniques can guide them to make the right decisions
underpinned by a growth mindset.
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We want to excite them through their passion of engineering,
construction or sports to have something to look forward to after
high school. If they have an end goal that they can truly look forward
to, preparing them to return to mainstream education and their
next steps will become much more manageable, attainable and
enjoyable.
Curriculum Implementation
We will prepare young people for the world of work by facilitating the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to succeed in a career in engineering, construction or sports. KSBs underpin all the new apprenticeship standards and are key to an apprentice successfully passing their work-based course.
Our learners will be taught key engineering, construction or sports skills through a thematic approach. The Royal Academy of Engineers have done a lot of work around pedagogies for engineering and put simply found that we must move away from a focus on disciplinary knowledge (subjects such as mathematics and science) and develop a better understanding of how engineers think and act using engineering habits of mind.
Teaching the key subjects through a daily engineering, construction or sports skill we believe will motivate the young people more due to their already invested interest.
Curriculum Impact
Our learners will develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours
required to succeed in an engineering, construction or sports career
at their own pace and this will be enhanced by our low pupil to staff
ratio.
The basic principle common to successful alternative education
programmes is the understanding that not all students have the
same goals or the same ways of learning: “By allowing students to
work at their own pace and move on to new material once a concept
has been mastered, students are able to stay focused and learn more
than in classrooms where instruction is not taught at the appropriate
pace for the student and thus he or she becomes disengaged”
(Smith and Thompson 2014).
Our learners will have the opportunity to review their own
understanding around key engineering, construction or sports skills
and learn how to improve their understanding over time.
For more information please contact our Director Tom Wiles
Mobile- 07725369374
Email- t.wiles@keatsee.com
