Full-Time Education
Part-Time Education
We provide a holistic approach to part-time and full-time education. Our emotionally available learning environments enable children and young people to overcome barriers to engagement and access education.
What we provide
We provide a holistic approach to part-time and full-time education. Our emotionally available learning environments enable children and young people to overcome barriers to engagement and access education.
Our approach
We understand that children and young people who find it difficult to engage with education can struggle for a number of reasons and that hidden barriers to learning hinder their ability to fully engage.
Barriers may include:
Adverse educational histories
Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) difficulties
Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
Low-income families
Trauma or neglect
Learners in care or care leavers
Poor or inappropriate social skills
Poor or no prior attainments
Young carers
Part-time: Education Recovery Project
Our Education Recovery programmes are available across Key Stages 1-5 and provide graduated responses that are tailored to individual children and young people’s needs. They are outcome-orientated and provide the most vulnerable students with support.
What to expect from our broad and balanced curriculum:
1:1 Mentoring
Students enrolled on our Education Recovery Project receive at least two hours of 1:1 mentoring each week with an emotionally available LPW Engagement Worker. We focus on building trusted relationships, increasing the learner’s confidence and resilience, helping to tackle barriers to attendance and punctuality and healthy lifestyle choices. We achieve this by engaging students in positive activities such as forest school, art therapy or cooking. Sessions are tailored to individual children and young people’s needs and interests with the aim of breaking down barriers to education, learning and engagement using trauma-informed play and/or youth approaches.
“OMG I’m so excited about cooking and looking at recipes and cooking we can do together next time. “
— LPW Education Recovery Project student
“I really like the sessions with my Engagement Worker. I feel safe and supported by them.”
— LPW Education Recovery Project student, age 12
Life Skills
All children and young people need to find what interests them, their passion and their drive. Through small group activities at venues like Horseworld, We The Curious, Mojo Active or The Pickle Factory, children and young people participate in active learning, develop practical and emotional skills, positively interact with others and increase confidence, resilience and self-esteem.
“He [our son] made us both lunch, plated it up and everything. We’re looking forward to some more cooking that he’s learning with you. At the end of the session, one of the teachers showed him around LPW School. I think he’ll thrive at your school.”
— Parent of an Education Recovery Project student
1:1 Tuition
When children and young people have struggled in mainstream education settings, their learning may have become disrupted and/or they may have fallen behind. Others may just need a little extra support.
Our 1:1 tuition matches children and young people to our in-house tutors to ensure that students who cannot access full-time education can continue to access core curriculum subjects. This ensures that they do not fall behind in their learning and are able to integrate back into education at their highest level of achievement. Tutoring sessions are two hours long and can take place wherever best suits the student – at home, school or at our LPW Hubs.
“The support provided to young people, along with the close collaboration with school staff, has been invaluable.”
— Primary school SENCo, Bristol
“Our student has had an amazing turnaround now being able to read and write and to move on to LPW school with a really positive attitude, which is so lovely see.”
— Teacher, Soundwell Academy, South Gloucestershire
Outcome Specific Learning Groups
“LPW are supporting the integration and smooth transfer to secondary of May Park’s GRT [Gypsy, Roma and Traveller] Community.”
— DSL, May Park Primary School, Bristol
Children and young people enrolled onto the Education Recovery Project typically find classroom-based settings difficult to manage. Alongside our 1:1 tuition, we also see the importance of encouraging students to engage in larger group settings to increase their confidence when returning to school. Our outcome-specific learning groups focus on building and maintaining positive relationships with peers, while learning and working towards ASDAN qualifications. These small group sessions are held in locations across Bristol. We use games and activities to encourage a positive learning experience.
Suitable For
Recovery Project
Suitable for:
Children and young people where concerns exist about the suitability of a full-time, school based, timetable.
Focus:
Supporting students to maintain their academic focus but allowing opportunities for bespoke alternative education away from their home school.
Key features:
• Combines work in the community, home and school.
• Works with the home school to ensure staff are supported.
• An effective handover once the programme is complete.
• Allows participants to continue to access a near complete curriculum offer at their home school.
Recovery Plus+
Suitable for:
Children and young people who have previously received significant additional support, possibly including our Recovery Project, and who need ongoing, extensive support to engage with education.
Focus:
May be a final stage in a graduated response before a placement in a full-time ALP is considered.
Key features:
• Combines work in the community, LPW Hub and the home school.
• Allows for bespoke interventions to support the development of teaching, learning and communication strategies for use by staff in home school.
• Works with the home school to ensure staff are supported.
• An effective handover once the programme is complete.
• Provides the child or young person with one full day away from school to develop skills and experience a hands-on learning programme.
Got a question or how to refer?
If you would like to know more about LPW, have a question or would like to refer, please get in touch: enquiries@lpw.org.uk or call 0117 987 3700
All timetables are adapted to suit the needs of each individual child or young person referred and will be co-constructed with the learner’s home school. They may also include a combination of therapeutic work, targeted sessions on Child Criminal Exploitation or packages that support post-16 transition.
Example Time Table
FAQs
What else do you provide?
Can children or young people be referred if they have an EHCP?
Yes, absolutely. Please be aware that there may be additional charges to ensure we are able to meet an individual student’s needs. We’ll discuss this with you as part of the referral process.
I’m a parent, can I refer my child or young person?
Our Education Recovery Project are part-time education, which means your child or young person must remain on-roll at their current school setting. The school needs to make the referral. We can provide information about the process.
If your child/young person is referred and accepted on one of our programmes, our approach is to work with individual students, their parents/carer and host school setting to achieve the best possible outcomes. The aim is for them to successfully reintegrate back into their host school settings.
Where does the Education Recovery Project run?
We currently work with schools in Bristol, South Glos and North Somerset.
What is Alternative Provision?
Alternative provision (AP) is an educational arrangement for children who are unable to attend school for various reasons. AP is intended to address barriers to education and students in AP should receive the same amount of education as they would in a mainstream school. LPW provides part-time and full-time AP.
What does part-time education mean?
Often children and young people enrolled onto the Education Recovery Project find full-time and/or classroom-based settings difficult to manage. Our recovery projects provide a blended approach to learning offering a mixture of 1:1 mentoring, life-skills, tuition and outcome-focused groups (with ASDAN qualifications). This is part-time education. The aim is to work with individual students and support them to reingratiate back into mainstream education settings.
When can referrals be made?
A referral can be made at any time. Once we receive it we will be in touch to discuss the referral in more detail and assess suitability. If accepted, our start dates are on a rolling basis which we will also discuss with you. There is high demand for the programme and there may be a wait time, but we will talk you through this.
What’s the purpose of your Education Recovery Project?
We think this quote captures this well.
“This support system fosters not only intellectual growth but also emotional resilience, enabling students to overcome challenges, increase self-confidence, reach their full potential and a greater sense of personal achievement.”
— Head of Inclusion, City Academy, Bristol
What happens next?
We will be able to provide advice and guidance at each stage of individual student’s Recovery Project journey. Please get in touch if you have a question.
I’ve noticed LPW also has a school. What is this?
We provide full-time alternative learning to young people aged 14 to 16 at LPW School in Bristol. Please click here to visit the LPW School website.