Skills and qualities

This video from Schools World can be used to  identify some of the skills and qualities needed to work as a mechanic

 

Use this worksheet :(download from Box net)

To 

• Identify sector and transferable skills  
• Tick off the skills you see in the film.

These resources are intended for Entry 3 and link to the employability unit from OCR, Assessing myself for work.

For other resources for skills and qualities see my other blog entries

Skills and Qualities

This resource from Northern Ireland Curriculum has some good resources for understanding skills and qualities needed for work.

Introduction: Education for Employability

Also see my other posts on skills and qualities here

Entry 2/3 Functional Skills English Punctuation

Entry 2/3 Functional Skills English Punctuation

•  Why Punctuate? a 1 minute video  from  BBC Skillswise
•  Name the  Punctuation Mark  worksheet on My Box net
•  Similar resource from Skills workshop Punctuation Match

 For the interactive whiteboard :

• Match the punctuation mark game on echalk(subscription needed) 
•  Capital letters and fullstops game from echalk(subscription needed) plus worksheet
• Capital letters game from Skillswise: Blown Away

Jobs People Do

I have added a Blockbuster quiz about Job titles .The students have helped with this and provided  me with some brief job descriptions.

You can make your own on Teacher Direct 

 or play our  Quiz here

See a PowerPoint  Blockbuster work skills resources here

Health and Safety

This Quiz from BBC Northern Ireland was featured in my blog in 2008.
I use it every time I do health and safety,so thought it deserved another mention.

Autism: Another piece in the puzzle

 

Reactickles  and Somantics  are new computer programmes which  help with communication difficulties by creating rewarding interactive experiences.
 Both programmes can be used on Ipad 2  or  computer (Mac or Windows)with  data projector and Microsoft Kinnect
Each programme has its own website.They are free to download
Reactickles              check out the download section for guidance

Somantics                check out  the download section for guidance


Autism: Another piece in the puzzle is a 30 minute Radio Wales programme available to listen to until 7th October which  introduces the programmes

New resource for E safety

A new online safety resource designed for young people and adults with a learning disability has been developed by JISC TechDis 

 East Midlands E-Safety Project website is full of resources and information for students,parents and teachers.

Food hygiene

A useful resource to use for Entry 2- Level 1 learners to teach safety and hygiene in the kitchen. Fact sheets are available on kitchen health and safety from Jamie's home cooking

New year starts with a horticulture to do list

At the weekend I was planning my Horticulture enterprise to do list:

I have found some useful guides to help plan the horticulture year.

Thomas and Morgan : What to do in the garden this month

A month by month guide

 Autumn planting veg from Thompson and Morgan

Top Ten vegetables to grow over winter Daily Telegraph

In September I will be 

Ordering  for Autumn Planting:

Vegetable seeds

Broad beans

Aquadulce Claudia (AGM)

Peas  - Meteor

SPRING ONIONS

White Lisbon Winter Hardy

Winter lettuce

Meraviglia d'Inverno

Density lettuce

 

LAMBS LETTUCE  e.g.Verte de Cambrai and D'Olanda; Cavallo.

Spinach 

ONIONS  Garlic and Shallot Sets

Onions- Electric (red ) Radar (yellow) and Shakespeare white

SHALLOTS

GARLIC

Plants

SPRING CABBAGE  PLANTS

A green manure

Recycling

We  have joined Terracycle Writing Brigade.

We collect old biros,felt tip pens and board pens. We are about to post off our first collection,a 5kg box of used pens. Terracycle will donate 2p for every pen collected either to your school or a nominated charity.

It has helped us learn  about identifying different materials,about recycling plastic, and given us some good practice at weighing. I'll post some of the resources we have used but mean time check out the Terracycle website