Life Skills
Life skills develop gradually as children learn to manage themselves, relationships, decisions and increasing independence. This section focuses on the practical skills learners need as they move through school and prepare for what comes next.
Existing content to surface: Fostering Social Skills in Neurodiverse Kids, Choosing What Comes Next, Navigating Subject Choices webinar, Tertiary Options After School webinar, Raise Thinkers, Not Just Knowers, Start Anywhere, School Setup, Subject Triage, relevant Executive Function content and Maths or Maths Lit? where relevant.
This section can be separated more clearly from School Support by keeping the emphasis on independence, everyday functioning, decision-making and transitions.
For learners who experience barriers to learning, the prospect of tertiary education can raise questions that go well beyond academic marks. Renie Sutherland, principal of The Bridge Assisted Learning School Morningside, believes that education needs to recognise the individual learner. But what does that mean when preparing young people for life after school?
Childhood friendships come with an astonishing number of unwritten rules. Adults sometimes make things harder by assuming every child should want the same kind of social life.
Meet The Bridge Morningside therapy team and see how speech, OT and psychology work together to support neurodivergent learners at school.
We say that children learn differently, then continue measuring almost all of them against the same narrow version of success.
For some learners, this works beautifully. They manage the subjects, examinations and pace of a traditional academic school route and move towards matric with a growing sense of possibility.
For twelve years, almost everything is measured.
