Coleg Gwent hosts annual ILS Christmas Fayre

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Coleg Gwent’s Torfaen Learning Zone is playing host to their annual Christmas Fayre. All organised and executed by their ILS learners. ILS independent learning skills helps people with different disabilities into the next stage of their life and their Christmas Fayre is a great opportunity to learn skills like crafting, sourcing materials, and selling.

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00:00We have a specialist department which is for students that have difficulties, disabilities

00:07or diagnosis that might mean that they need specialist provision. In our department our

00:14courses are about life skills so we have four pillars, independence, health and well-being,

00:19community and employability and all students have individual targets and a person-centred

00:24journey. We look at where they're planning to go after ILS, whether that's on to further

00:29study or whether it's out into employment or to volunteering or day opportunities and

00:35we're always looking at how we can support students towards their target and making activities

00:42and experiences for them that can help them develop their independence not just on site

00:46here but also when they're at home as well. The independent living skills department of

00:51Coleg Gwent is so important to so many students and things like their Christmas fair gives

00:56them a real opportunity to experience real life business, social and manual skills that

01:00they can use again and again in the future. We have the ILS which stands for independent

01:07living skills Christmas fair today which the students have been very busy sourcing and

01:12making lots of items ready for sale and working very hard as well as costing and planning

01:20all of the activities they've also been selling now today and it's a great opportunity for

01:25us to have some in-house work experience for our current students but we also invite feeder

01:30schools and potential students that are thinking about coming to join us to the event so that

01:35they have an idea about what they might be doing next academic year. It's a great opportunity

01:40for people to share how different people are getting on, great opportunity for our current

01:46parents and carers to network with other people as well because we like any sort of connections

01:50that we make in college to go beyond because lots of people stay in these areas and they

01:55can make connections with people that can go on for the rest of their days really.

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