The BUSY School in partnership with Cardiff City FC Community Foundation offers a proven alternative education model.
Our approach provides small classes, flexible timetables and individual learning plans backed by wrap-around well-being and career support, helping to meet the unique needs of students and empowering their personal development. Integrating education, sport, employment and well-being ensuring each young person gets the bespoke support that they need.
The BUSY School Cardiff is delivered in partnership with the Cardiff City FC Community Foundation, the official charity of Cardiff City Football Club, an organisation working to change lives and transform communities in South Wales.
The programme combines the best of education, sport and well-being and is delivered over five days a week for secondary school aged students in a supportive, non-traditional alternative learning environment.
The BUSY School Cardiff is designed to build trust, encourage learning and empower previously disengaged young people who have been referred and who will stay with us until they have a positive destination to move on to.
It’s an approach designed to ensure this innovative and exciting provision will become a destination of choice for learners in South Wales.
Our trauma-informed approach provides a vocational curriculum tailored to individual learning needs and a focus on practical outcomes.
One of our students whose mainstream school attendance had dropped to 30% is now celebrating their 100% attendance record with us.
The parent of one of our learners shared a message about her son that sums up precisely what our Cardiff programme is designed to achieve, saying, “He seems like a different boy now, just so happy, calm and relieved since being with you…. He loves going there, and he’s so much more relaxed at home.”
A Different Kind of Sixth Form
An integral part of our Cardiff programme is the delivery of the BTEC Level 1 Award in Sport, delivered by a qualified sports coach. The award allows students to explore different styles of coaching, teamwork and motivation as well as practical ways to stay healthy and active.
As an approved Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Centre, the programme also enables learners to work towards their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award through volunteering, physical activity, skill-building and expedition experiences. To mark the programme’s accreditation as an Award Centre, our staff and learners were invited to the Senedd to be formally presented with their Duke of Edinburgh registration certificate where they had the opportunity to meet HRH Prince Edward who took the time to speak with our group about the Cardiff provision.
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