Life Skills Options

All Petty Pool students have a life skills session each week. The sessions help us to develop our independent living skills.

Once a week we have our ‘Life Skills Options’. We decide what we want to learn in these sessions. At the start of the year we set ourselves targets in our Individual learning Plans.

This might be that you want to book a hairdressers’ appointment, make your own lunch, buy magazines from the shops or use public transport. Anything you want to learn. Some students have even joined the gym this year as part of their life skills sessions. During the year our tutors help us develop these skills.

We work for one morning or afternoon a week and we can use our Independent Living Skills Lodge to improve our domestic skills. It has a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living room just like at home.