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Our findings show that employers rate attitude and aptitude for work as the most important factors when recruiting school and college leavers. These characteristics are ranked more highly than academic grades and formal qualifications, underlining the importance for young people to develop capabilities such as resilience, critical thinking, ambition, and leadership in order to succeed in later life. The school system needs to reflect the importance of these skills, with greater focus placed on students’ personal development. There is increasing evidence that developing children’s cognitive and social skills assists them in their later learning.” This report combined with the of the Chartered Management Institute and Ernst and Young titled, An age of uncertainty are stacked with statistical evidence and reach similar conclusions.
“If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.”
Grass Routes ran our first development training for youth groups in 1985, refining our methods over three decades of practice. Today we provide a full spectrum of programmes from fully residential programmes in leadership, team work and personal development, through to work shop interventions. We are proud of our long-standing commitment to helping schools and youth groups.
All of our programmes are tailored to our client’s needs and tempered by years of experience.
We have nothing off the peg and we work hard to understand and meet your needs.
Where we use the outdoors, our experienced tutors understand that any outdoor element of a programme is only a learning vehicle for teams or individuals.
Not all classrooms have walls and taking young people out of the confines of a traditional classroom environment can have other outcomes including positive health benefits, team building through shared experiences, and most of all can help make learning fun and engaging!
Safety is our first consideration when planning any programme. For this reason, we have an unblemished safety record. We carry over £5 million in public liability insurance
All of our programmes are tailored to our client’s needs and tempered by years of experience.
We have nothing off the peg and we work hard to understand and meet your needs.
Where we use the outdoors, our experienced tutors understand that any outdoor element of a programme is only a learning vehicle for teams or individuals.
Not all classrooms have walls and taking young people out of the confines of a traditional classroom environment can have other outcomes including positive health benefits, team building through shared experiences, and most of all can help make learning fun and engaging!
Safety is our first consideration when planning any programme. For this reason, we have an unblemished safety record. We carry over £5 million in public liability insurance
The Stretch Programme
For Pre-16's
Is a personal development and leadership programme for groups of up to 25 young people from year 8 to year 10 selected by their schools as young people who would benefit from the Stretch programme.
Who is it for?
Stretch aims to provide opportunities for development and leadership for students who may in the past have lacked the confidence to push themselves forward, included in this group are students who whilst confident, would benefit from the opportunity to further develop their soft skills, we want these children to thrive in team situations and positively interact with an increased range of personalities.
The Purpose of the Stretch Programme is to:
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Why is Stretch different?
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Duration
Programme length may vary from 5 – 8 days according to what the school decide. A sample programme is set out below. We prefer to work in whole days but can in work half day sessions.
Programme length may vary from 5 – 8 days according to what the school decide. A sample programme is set out below. We prefer to work in whole days but can in work half day sessions.