Extra Curricular
Extra Curricular Activities
Just Learn works in partnership with the following organisations to provide extra-curricular activities for our students:
The Social Switch (Catch 22)
Where antisocial behaviour was once mostly limited to a physical audience, harmful content is now rapidly shared online, resulting in retaliation and feeding gang violence. The Social Switch Project is training professionals who are directly engaged with young people, at risk of being impacted by youth violence online and offline. The training will use youth workers’ existing knowledge and best practice to enable them to understand the significance of issues faced online, to openly talk about the challenges, and to be able to navigate young people towards more productive and creative online activity. The Social Switch Project is delivering a training course for young people to channel their creative skills towards positive outcomes. We are working to get them work experience and long-term employment with leading organisations across London.
The Prince’s Trust
We believe every young person should be given the chance to flourish. Our community of staff, volunteers and partners are continuously motivated to empower them to break down their barriers to change their futures no matter their background or circumstances.
Just Learn Student Charity
Just Learn charity is dedicated to students that has been established in 2018. We support learners including post 16 and NEETs with the following:
- Careers Advice
- CV Writing / Mock Interviews
- Personal Statements / College Applications
- Mentoring / Workshops
- Parent / Student Surgeries
RugbyWorks
RugbyWorks is an intensive, long-term skills development programme based on the values of rugby, through which we aim to get teenagers outside of mainstream education into sustained education, employment or training.
Each year on average 2,200*1 young people between the ages of 14-16 are excluded from mainstream education in the UK. That’s 12 exclusions every school day. Excluded children are the most vulnerable; twice as likely to be in the care of the state, four times more likely to have grown up in poverty, seven times more likely to have a special educational need and ten times more likely to suffer recognised mental health problems.
Most have no hope of getting out of a system they fell in often through no fault of their own. Is this right? Some say it’s about giving them a second chance, but with our young people, it’s often their first chance.
At Dallaglio Rugby Works, we want to change this. We get to work right at the heart of the system. We place our coaches in local Alternative Provision, where we work hand in hand with local teaching staff, using the values of rugby to help develop a wide range of essential skills for these permanently excluded teenagers. We provide structure and support, and a pathway to the future.
Our results are significant, a young person on our programme is 3 times more likely to pass a Maths & English Level 2 and twice as likely to still be in education, employment or training 12 months after leaving school. Both significant predictors of future employability and ability to support themselves and their families to build a better life.
These are some of the hardest young people to reach, but our programme is working.
Jack Petchey
The Jack Petchey Foundation was set up to inspire and motivate young people across London and Essex by providing exciting projects and programmes for them to get involved in. We also recognise the outstanding achievements of today’s young people by awarding them for their hard work and positive impact in their community.