Safety on Facebook

 


A useful video from Solihull Advocacy
The tips they cover are:

Making The Most of It.

This photo is called Making The Most of It.It was taken during a wild and windy October day. It wasn't quite so wet as the recent weather! I think making the most of it is what I want to do this year:  Work as hard as I can for my students and try and develop the skills they need for their next step in life .But  I want to achieve this and do things for myself as well !   I'd like to get better at Photography,improve my running: Parkrun is a great safe and social way to run. I'm also starting a course at college on using Social Media,so I may be blogging a bit more to practice some of my new skills! I've written 23 posts this year, most have been linked to subjects I am teaching . Since September I have been teaching Personal Safety including Road Safety,a gardening enterprise, ICT safety, Community Action,Recycling and  Maths and English. We still use the OCR qualification : Life and Living and Employability but are exploring the opportunities offered by using RARPA,especially with students working at Milestone 8 or below. My college is now  in its third year of waiting for OFSTED but  it should be over by February as this is the end of the legal time limit . It was with dismay that I read the recent Guardian article: Further education became Ofsted's new punchbag I wish you a Happy New Year, sucess with your students and a good work life balance Here are a list of my top ten posts from the last 5 years: Electrical Safety
Healthy Eating 1
Dangers in the Kitchen
Classroom timers for the Interactive whiteboard
Health and Safety
Food Hygiene
Resources for teaching adults with a learning disability
World War 2
Looking at Hazards
Makaton for Christmas

Mencap Easy Read Guide to Hate Crime

Mencap Easy Read Guide to Hate Crime

A gardening resource

This resource can be used for OCR entry 3 Horticulture units.

Gardening

Last autumn I posted  on "what to plant now " (read by clicking on this link)

I have found some new things to add which can be found by clicking on the link below:

The Organic gardener catalogue

Cutting can also be taken now:

September semi ripe cuttings  

 from Video jug:

How to take semi ripe cutting video

Cuttings can be taken from:

Lavender, 

Rosemary,

Thyme

Bay,

Sage,

Ceanothus

Fuschia

Wigela

 

Personal Safety Using a Cash Machine

This video from Gwent police is a clear and simple presentation on using the cash point safely.


Use in conjunction with

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•  Keeping Safe : Cash Machine 
•  page 20-23 of the London Transport Guide
   
  which you will find a link to on my blog entry:  Be Safe when you are out     
  
  
  
• page 11 (18,19) of Keep Safe guide from the home office available on the Well aware website 
  
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The Reason Why I Jump - Book of the week

 Radio 4 is featuring this extraordinary book by a Japanese teenager with severe autism.
You can listen to it via the  BBC website  -The first  15 minute episode is  only available until 31st July(4 days). There are 5 episodes in total.

Learning to be Financially Capable Bank Statements

An example bank statement,wage slip,cheque and debit card can be found in the
 OCR Employability support pack Entry3

Module 2  
Guide to financial capability

An old resource which I shall be using to revise
 top, middle, bottom, left and right for OCR Entry 1 Functional Skills.It is an open ended resource. The pictures generate a number- You decide the question...

Easter

My enterprise students have been taking photos in preparation for making Easter cards.I thought their photos were great.They were creative,beautiful and sometimes funny!