Welcome Back! After a summer of rest I'm ready to go again and  welcome our new students on Monday. 

Scrap Coloring is a useful  site . I will be using it when we make name cards. This year I have students who can't hold a pen but can use the computer keyboard and mouse. The site does warn that better results are obtained when using FireFox rather than Internet Explorer,so worth trying it out first. Names can be printed or saved to the computer.

Wordle is also a useful whole class activity.Everyone can type their name in to the Wordle  template and  an instant class list created. Requires JAVA,so again try it out first.

Health and Safety

I will be teaching Health and Safety to my students with learning difficulties again this year. I teach Edexcel Health and Safety at Entry 1 and 2. I shall also be using some of these resources with my Milestone 8 students learning Life skills. Here are some resources available on the web to help you .

many of these resources are no longer available 2021

There is an introduction to health and safety signs  now moved Not available at Milestone 8 on the learning portal site . It is a short interactive activity that has sound and is self correcting.

Young workers website -from ROSPA has information on signs and then a quiz on the meaning of signs (E2/E3) the section :

Advice for Young People : Workplaces & Case Studies has some excellent accident stories to use .

There is a literacy and numeracy resource on the topic of health and safety on Skillsworkshop It covers covers :

rt/e1.1 follow a short narrative rt/e2.1 trace understand chronological and instructional text manual handling reading bar charts - e1/e2 understanding of directional language text comprehension and using pictures to help meaning - different level texts E1- E3

Dangers in the kitchen Sensory world has an interactive activity where students have to find the dangers in the kitchen. It has 3 levels and prints out a certificate.

Safety First  NO LONGER AVAILABLE 2021

This is a good video about safety in the home,at work and out in the community. It helps the student to think about the dangers around them. A demo is available on the website.It is available to buy from Speak up.

Filter NO LONGER AVAILABLE has a gallery of kitchen related photos showing hazards.

There is a home safety game. NO LONGER AVAILABLE on the Home Safety website .It is interactive but would need teacher input .It took me a while to work out what to do as I didn't read the instructions! It uses the 4 directional keys and the space bar.

There is a dangers in the kitchen NO LONGER AVAILABLE (page 5 of PDF) which has a picture to circle the dangers.

I have also put four powerpoints in my Box.net .Box net is on the side bar .You can download these .

If it doesn't appear straight away try refreshing the page.

Glasgow Blast and Children at work help to explain why we have have health and safety law. Safety at Work is about personal responsibility at work .

I have adapted Safety signs Quiz from a powerpoint by D O'Connor, Safety at Work is from Effective Training and Development and Children at Work has been adapted by me from a source I can no longer find on the internet! If you can help me acknowledge the source please let me know.

If you know of any good resources please leave a comment as I always find it difficult to locate good relevant resources for health and safety.

Wordle and REM

The holidays are truly over . I've had 4 weeks off this summer . In my college we have to book our holiday and spread the 37 days wisely through the year...So now its back to work on Tuesday and time to get on with some serious preparation for the start of the new academic year. I'll start with a resolution that I will have a life outside college and to show I mean business the whole family are off to see REM on Wednesday. I have the possible set list with orders from the children to have a good listen first! In preparation for this I've created a Wordle video using Movie maker. Have a watch !

I shall be using Wordle as one of my induction activities - everyone will add their name and we will display it on the whiteboard see an example below:

Have a good year, pace yourself, enjoy the company of your colleagues and most of all have fun with the students.