About Us
Steve Ferguson - BSc (Hons) PGCE. Founder - Teacher - Mentor - Coach
Hello I'm Steve, I was motivated to start this provision due to my own personal experiences, as young person I went through School with unidentified dyslexia, which meant that my experience at School was not as enjoyable and valuable as it should have been.
I found out I was dyslexic later in life, which actually helped me a lot. I then began a career in helping and supporting young people. I began as a Mentor in a Youth Offending team, and then worked as a Boxing and Personal development Coach. Upon achieving my PGCE I became a Health and Social Care lecturer in a FE College, most recently for 4 years I was PSHE lead and Teacher in a SEND School where the majority of the Pupils in the School had an EHCP and often displayed challenging behaviours, stemming from a range of Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs.
I have been described as being Calm, Reassuring,
Non-judgemental and Northern.
I have 15 years of experience working with fantastic young people, who for a variety of reasons were not having the life experience they would like and deserve.
I know that between the ages of 11 and 25 it can very often be a sensitive and difficult chapter in a persons life.
My ambition is to help people navigate their way through this chapter by enabling and empowering them to recover, succeed and achieve their goals, prioritising health and wellbeing.
My Qualifications
PGCE in FE, Huddersfield University (Graded ‘A’ for demonstrating outstanding teaching practice) Part of the criteria needed to be met involved me researching and delivering a specialist conference which I focused upon the ‘The Gender Imbalance in Health and Social Care.
B.Sc. (Hons) 2.1 Health and Community Studies Huddersfield University. Modules studied included; Anatomy and Physiology, Sociology, Psychology, Community Health, Peer Mentoring, Health & Wellbeing Research, Public Health, Social Problems and Social Issues, Health and Social Care policy, Community and Inter agency working, and other similar modules.
Certificates, Awards and Training received
· Working with young people who have experienced ACE (adverse childhood experiences)
· SEND and SEMH awareness (ongoing training and development training undertaken)
· Level 1 Counselling certificate
· Safeguarding of children certificate (renewed annually)
· Certificate in Exercise studies
· ABAE qualified Boxing instructor
· BMABA Boxing Instructor
· Sports Leaders level 2 Award
· City and Guilds in bricklaying
· City and Guilds in Civil engineering and construction
· First Aid at work certificate (renewed annually)
· Awareness of Drugs Alcohol and Substance Misuse
· The Prevent Duty (renewed annually)
· Adhering to GDPR
· Addressing Mental wellbeing in Children and Young People
· Raising Awareness of LGBTQ+
· Preventing Bullying
· Online Safety
· Child Exploitation and CSE
Continual professional development
I continue to study vast array of topics and approaches such as, Safeguarding, SEND Teaching and Learning strategies, Mentoring and Coaching techniques, helping and supporting people with SEND, embedding Literacy, Numeracy and ICT into lessons and the Prevent strategy. I also attend numerous teaching and sharing good practice seminars.
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