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Aims & Objectives

Deliberately different, deliberately relevant

Summit AP exists to offer alternative provision that responds to the real experiences of young people today through practical, safeguarding led and relationship based education.
Why this matters now

Progress under pressure

We are working with young people, in particular Black young people, at a time when progress that took years to build is under real pressure. The wider social and political climate has, in places, moved backwards rather than forwards.

Alternative provision cannot respond to this moment with a conventional offer. It needs to be deliberately different, and deliberately relevant to the young people it serves.

Our approach to engagement

Engagement is a response to relevance

Traditional classroom delivery does not reach every young person, and for many of the young people referred to Summit AP, it hasn't.

What we've found is that engagement isn't a fixed trait, it's a response to relevance. A young person who won't settle into a formal English lesson will readily plan a protein rich weekly menu to support their own training in our on site gym.

That single task produces evidence across English (planning, literacy), Maths (nutritional values, portioning), PSHE and health education, not as a workaround, but as a genuine, mappable route to the same outcomes.

What this looks like in practice

  • Gym and nutrition sessions mapped to core curriculum outcomes
  • Hands-on making and design activities that build confidence
  • Real evidence recorded for every learner, every placement
  • A relationship based approach that starts with the young person
Our aims

What Summit AP is working towards

Respond to the moment

Provide alternative provision that responds directly to the current climate facing young people, with particular attention to the experiences of young Black people.

Challenge low expectations

Demonstrate, through evidence, what young people are capable of when engagement is built around relevance rather than convention.

Deliver core outcomes differently

Deliver English, Maths and PSHE outcomes through practical, physical and creative activity, including fitness, nutrition and hands on making, as legitimate, evidenced routes to learning.

Generate trusted evidence

Ensure every placement generates real, cross curricular evidence of progress that schools and commissioners can trust.

Stay responsive

Keep our provision responsive, reviewing and adapting our offer as the needs of young people and the wider climate change.
Our objectives

How we put our aims into practice

  • Use gym based and nutrition focused activity as a structured route to English, Maths and PSHE outcomes, with evidence mapped and recorded for each learner.
  • Build referral and partnership relationships with schools and commissioners based on demonstrated outcomes, not just attendance figures.
  • Continue developing practical, skills based learning routes (including CAD/CAM and 3D printing) that reflect how our learners actually engage.
  • Regularly review our approach against the current needs of young people, particularly young Black people, in the current social and political climate.
  • Maintain the same safeguarding led, relationship based standards across all activity, however non traditional the format.

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