Animal Care

Providing a comprehensive introduction to animal care. Students benefit from a practical course to learn to understand the care needs and habitats of farm animals that is supported by theory that embeds skills for life.

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Programme of study

Course Outline

We use the Awarding Organisation Skills and Education Group for our accreditations. All our courses are based on project-based learning with six projects taking place across the year. The projects build on prior knowledge, skills and behaviours and work towards producing a product or feature.

Our Animal Care team are Qualified and very experienced with the farm animals being based at Stourside Farm. There are a wide range of small to larger animals which students work with and learn how to look after.

We have an array of employers that we work with who get involved in our projects and support relevant external work experience for our learners. Many of our students go onto work for local farms in Kent and the surrounding areas.

Levels

The Animal Care Qualifications are available from Entry Level to Level 2.

We support our learners in 3 Pathways to ensure that students are successful throughout their time with us. This way learners can work towards a qualification through RARPA (Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement) if they are not yet able to access a unit accreditation, creating a supportive learning environment for all.

Site

Stourside Farm offers a nurturing industry-based work environment for students to complete a Vocational Qualifications in Animal Care, alongside Mathematics and English.

Stourside Farm
Great Chart Bypass,
Ashford
TN23 4ER

Key Skill Development

Personal Development

Provides students with key skills needed to thrive both now and in their future. Student benefit from the Personal Development Curriculum to support them in Preparing for Adulthood with focussed sessions exploring three key areas: Myself, Community and Independence.

Interventions

These daily sessions, develops students personal areas of needs. We have found that the outcomes within most EHCp are often vast and can be daunting for students to access them and achieve. Students benefit from them to be broken down into manageable chunks and set as SMART targets. These targets are worked on regularly through bespoke interventions and reviewed regularly alongside students to encourage reflective thinking and progress.

Enrichment

Supports students in expanding their horizons by providing opportunities to engage in outings to cinemas, beaches, and museums, as well as hosting guest speakers to discuss local community opportunities and connections to local services, thus facilitating exploration of talents and interests.

Route of study

At Craftworks College, we are aware that all our students progress at their own rate and our routes of study have adopted the waves model of intervention into our Student Pathways to inspire success for all through an inclusive and fair learning environment. Students capable of achieving a full qualification follow the Universal Pathway.
Student that need their learning broken into smaller steps follow the Targeted Pathway, here they focus upon one unit at a time and achieve Unit Accreditation.
Students that require our Specialist Pathway which breaks learning done into even small steps to ensure that they are able to achieve at their own specific level.

Course Testimonials

We see our Student Voice as imperative as it inspires and motivates active change and development within the Craftwork College Community. We are proud of what our students say about their course and their time with us.