Aims/Values

Safe

Ensure the safety and security of all young people by liaising with other relevant agencies and external stakeholders, and by implementing and using a number of pastoral recording and child protection frameworks;

Healthy

Improve the self-esteem and happiness of all young people and help them to plan and achieve a future in the real world, making safe and positive life choices along the way;

Achieving

Improve the literacy and numeracy of all young people using practical, realistic and relevant problem solving; increasing the potential for academic achievement in all young people, becoming Successful Learners and therefore increasing the chances of all young people entering into forward training, further or higher education;

Nurtured

Address the social, emotional and behavioural difficulties of all young people through high expectations and the provision of advice, support and appropriate role models both within CTEC and at home and in the community;

Active

Improve the health and fitness of all young people through organised sport, outdoor education activities, health education and the provision and promotion of healthy meals and a healthy lifestyle.

Respected

Enable all young people to become Confident Individuals and gain interpersonal skills necessary to succeed in the world of work and life in general; therefore increasing the chances of all young people becoming Effective Contributors and becoming involved in positive decision-making which affect them;

Responsible

Ensure the improved attendance and engagement with learning of all young people as a first priority; to take charge of their own lives and become Responsible Citizens;

Included

Reintegrate young people back into mainstream education in line with the national policy of inclusion in schools, wherever appropriate.