Nurture programme at Derwen College

Nurture is a specially designed two-year course for students with complex learning difficulties or profound and multiple learning disabilities.
A highly personalised programme for each student, Nurture's curriculum is based around communication, social interaction, independence and wellbeing.
This pre-vocational programme is aimed at supporting young people to transition from school to adult life. Students will learn positive choice-making to increase and enhance quality of life outcomes.
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Derwen College, in Gobowen, Shropshire, is an award-winning specialist college for young adults with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
The college offers students the opportunity to learn new skills in real work environments and to learn life skills which will enable them to live as independently as possible.
Derwen College's recent awards include:
o NASEN Award 2023 FE Provision of the Year.
o Natspec Innovation Award 2023 for Partnerships Working - for partnership with Rocking Horse Media.
o Skills Competitions Advocate Award in the World Skills UK Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Heroes Awards 2023.
o Lawn Tennis Association Awards 2023 - Shropshire School of the Year.
o Charity Retail Awards Innovation Award 2022 for The Vintage Advantage.
o SEND Awards 2022 - Support into Employment.
o SEND Awards 2022 - Inclusion in Higher and Further Education.
o 2022 Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity.
The College's main campus is in Gobowen, near Oswestry, with satellite sites at Ludlow, Telford and Walford (near Shrewsbury).