The Pathway Centre

The College’s specialist centre, based at the Southgate Campus in Enfield, provides a new and improved learning environment for disabled students and those with learning difficulties.

The challenges that these students face throughout their lives are complex and demanding, but one critical factor is the need for an educational environment that helps each individual reach his or her potential in life.

Students benefit from...

• A vibrant and bustling college environment
• A progressive curriculum linked to students’ aspirations and goals
• Open plan social space for lunch and breaks
• Training café where students make and serve snacks and lunch to students and staff.
• Opportunities to access main campus provision including shared canteen and Learning Resource Centre and open air social space shared with students on a range of vocational programmes.
• Internal and external off-site work experiences supported by job coaches
• Performing Arts students teaching delivery weekly in community theatre
• Transition Plan to wider main college provision.

The Pathway Centre provides this very place allowing students to learn in a safe environment entirely tailored to their needs. The Centre makes a life-changing difference to 200 students each year.

The inspirational building and facilities help them develop vital communication, independent living and work skills to equip them with the best chance of being economically active and building a life in their local communities.

Our SEND provision benefits greatly from our state-of-the-art centre that incorporates a great setting with facilities appropriate to a wide range of specific educational needs.

We aim to provide a friendly learning environment that matches individual needs. Every learner has a personal tutor to give individual advice, monitor progress and help identify suitable progression routes.

All places in the Centre are allocated through local authority consultations and referrals.

Students have the support they need to realise their potential; learning through practical and vocational learning and therapies that develop living, working and communication skills enhanced by the superb facilities that include a:

• Hydrotherapy pool
• Sensory Room
• Physiotherapy facility
• Rebound room and specialist sports equipment
• Range of specialist classrooms and accessible facilities with ceiling tracking
• Mini sports hall
• Media suite
• Catering Café
• Domestic Kitchen
• Drama Room with staging, lighting and specialist equipment
• Sensory and recreational garden
• Range of art and craft rooms