Welcome to Keats Engineering & Education Ltd
Creating a brighter future for all
We are specialist educators in engineering, construction, sports coaching 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 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 and apprenticeships. We currently support football scholarship/coaching post 16 courses at Pontefract Collieries FC and now have our own accreditation with City and Guilds. Through funding from SENART at Wakefield Council we provide children and young people with EHCPs (Education Health Care Plans), with Post 16 courses including a Level 1 and 2 Certificate in Engineering that could lead to a Level 3 Diploma in Engineering. We also offer Level 1 and 2 courses in WeIding, again through our City and Guilds accreditation. In September 2023 we started our first Preparing for Adulthood cohort where we prepare our learners for their next steps into adulthood by focusing on four pathways which help young people to achieve their best outcome in:
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Higher education or employment;
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Independent living and housing options;
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Participating in the local community and society, and having positive relationships;
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Good health.
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We also offer young people the chance to enter the workplace through apprenticeships in sports coaching and engineering.
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
