Scottish Charity Number: SC034859 "Providing Education and Career Pathways Across All Rural Related Businesses"
Regional outreach programme
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Introduction
The CLS Pathways to Rural Work Outreach Programme provides a diverse range of Countryside day events that support learning in the rural environment. These events vary from school careers days, hands on learning experiences and classroom speakers to facilitating placements across all aspects of rural life, helping with transition from school to further education and work. Providing information and training for educators to help improve rural knowledge and increase confidence to deliver rural issues is also a key aspect of this programme.
The programme is designed to deliver progressive opportunities throughout a young persons late primary and secondary schooling based around the creation of partnership clusters within a geographical region. Cluster hubs may be a rural estate, residential facility, college or outdoor centre depending on the current structure within the region. Cluster partners around this hub can be any organisation, centre or facility that has an interest in education in the rural environment from Recreation adventure to land management or conservation.
This initiative works hand in hand with the P2RW Residential programme where pupils who wish to follow on from day events and learn more about the countryside, training and career opportunities can engage for a longer period and begin their path into an further education and an outdoor career.
P2RW Explained
Pupils learning about estate maintenance PPE
Dundee and Angus educators rural careers day Invermark Estate
S4 pupils in the larder during a rural business studies visit to Winston Churchill venison
Current Initiatives
Tayside - over the last two years we have been piloting the P2RW initiative in the Dundee and Angus area and have now created a cluster hub at Strathmore and Glamis estates directly engaging Websters HS Kirremuir, St Pauls HS Dundee and Blairgowrie HS. We have also been promoting rural skills and careers around the area at various school careers events including Dundee, Arbroath and Carnoustie. Pupils from the area that had been involved in the classroom speaker events and careers events at Glamis Estate were booked to attend the CLS countryside awareness residential week at the Shieling Project near Inverness. Unfortunately this week had to be postponed due to the pandemic.
In addition to Tayside; we have new Regional Co-ordinators in the Cairngorms Area, the NW Highlands area and the NE Highlands area.
Helen Buchanan Glamis castle manager explains hospitality careers to St Pauls pupils
