Day Opportunities - Skills 4 Life
“Attending sessions gives my son a chance to socialise with his peers, doing things that others may take for granted, such as going out to lunch and going bowling. It can be isolating to attend special provision as friends and classmates don’t necessarily live close by. But going to BOSP means he can spend time with people his own age and develop life skills and have loads of fun!”
Weekday Opportunities for 18 to 25-year-olds, from 9.30 am to 3.30 pm
Skills 4 Life is BOSP's educational weekday, daytime opportunity for young people aged 18 to 25 years. Skills 4 Life provides bespoke vital life and social skills to support transition into adulthood. Our small groups and high level of support ensures the young people grow in confidence and independence. Weekdays 9.30am to 3.30pm at BOSP's Skills for Life Centre in Wat Tyler Country Park.
A variety of fun and exciting activities are on offer each week, for example:
- Sports including trampolining, swimming, cycling/triking etc.
- Meal planning, shopping, preparing and serving
- Gardening and basic DIY
- Drama and dance
- Travel training
- Woodland/forestry skills
- Enterprise - the young people make items to sell in the park, sell donated items online or deliver afternoon tea/coffee mornings, with proceeds going toward extra whizzy days out of their choice. Previous events have included Diggerland, Shreks Adventure Show, Chessington and Jimmy’s Farm
- Personal and home-care
- Learn how to make a GP/Dentist appointment
- Quizzes, games, films and music
- Theme parks, zoos and city visits
- First aid and visits to Essex Air Ambulance, police and RNLI
- Residential holiday opportunity
- IT skills
- Volunteering
- Opportunities to gain a formal qualification
Outside of term time BOSP provides a different programme of activity for Skills 4 Life attendees, to provide variety and an opportunity to meet with other young people.
Areas of Development - Learning Outcomes
BOSP’s Skills 4 Life weekly timetable is meticulously planned to ensure all activities incorporate the following areas of development: Communication & Interaction; Social Understanding & Relationships; Sensory Processing; Interests, Routines & Processing; Emotional Understanding & Self Awareness; Learning Engagement; Healthy Living; Independence & Community Participation; Money Handling and Budgeting.
Each activity allows the young people to develop skills dependent on the particular activity. Every young person who attends Skills 4 Life builds a scrapbook with photographs of all the activities they have taken part in.
The developments and achievements of the young people are recorded in their individual scrapbooks and their outcomes are logged onto our outcome system on our bespoke database. This allows us to track the young people’s development, skills and achievements.
At the end of each term, families will receive an End of Term Report celebrating their young person’s achievements during that period. This is wonderful way to round up the term.
Please see the posters below for more information about our Skills 4 Life Service.
As with all BOSP Services, we very quickly get over subscribed, so do please get in touch with The BOSP Office on 01268 553117 or email [email protected] if you are interested in your young person attending and would like to know session fees..
NB. Transition - We recommend that you start to consider transition to post 18 services when your young person reaches 15/16 years of age due to the lengthy assessment/social care process.
