Public Services Vocational Visit to the Royal Air Force Museum Hendon

Public Services students, accompanied by Mr Wilson and Mr Toomey visited the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon in North London on Wednesday 25th January.

Wednesday 18th Jan 2012 Year 12 (Level 3) Public Services

For full details of work for today you need  to refer to the Assignment Brief (Tasks 3 & 4), located on the G Drive and also to posts published on Tue 10th Jan 12 and Tue 29th Nov 11.

Most of you need to complete P5 and P7. They are both written reports and both will require some element of research, either from books or the internet.

Once completed the work can be printed or emailed to me for assessment.

Remember P5 focusses on the roles of teams within a selected public service, eg the police, RAF, etc. P7 examines the theory behind team building and cohesion. A few useful websites are listed below. Remember Wikipedia is not working today!

http://www.chimaeraconsulting.com/tuckman.htm

http://www.teambuilding.co.uk/Forming_Storming_Norming_Performing.html

http://www.belbin.com/

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_83.htm

Tuesday 17th Jan 2012 Year 12 Public Services (12P)

For details of today's work refer to the updated post of 9th January.

Please email me your work on the "Conventional Signs Exercise", which I shall mark and return.

Public Services Catch Up Sessions

Catch up sessions will be available for all PS students who need to catch up/improve upon coursework, with teacher support.

Sessions will be held in AR109 on Mondays between 1500-1700.

Year 12 Level 3 Unit 2 Leadership and Teamwork

This unit is nearing its conclusion with the Vocational Visit to Hendon at the end of this month. You should now start to look at the missing attainment statements, namely P5 and P7, together with their associated Merit upgrades. P5 and P7 can be found within Tasks 3 and 4 of the Assignment Brief which is located on the G Drive in the Public Services File.

The next unit (Unit 9: Outdoor and Adventurous Expeditions) will start in February! To see the full specification for the unit go to:

http://www.edexcel.com/quals/nationals10/ps/Pages/default.aspx

Year 12 Level 2 Unit 10 Land Navigation by Map & Compass

Lesson 1: Understanding Conventional Signs (Map Symbols)

LO: To be able to recognise different conventional signs (map symbols) and to understand what they look like on the ground.

Tasks:

As the starter, open and watch the following piece about Ordnance Survey map symbols. This is what the first chunk of Unit 10 is all about!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgCBDLuUlkM

Now:
1. Open today's lesson, which is a power point presentation. This can be found on the G Drive in the Unit 10 folder. It is named "UNIT 10 Lesson 1". Copy the PP to your own user area as you will need to copy some of the slides later.

2. When you have been through the PP and completed the 3 activities open and save a copy of the word file "Conventional Signs Exercise", which is also in the Unit 10 folder. Complete the exercise sheet.

3. Start the Assignment task below.

The full details of this Unit, including Assignment Brief and copies of lessons and materials/resources are located on the G Drive.

The first assessed task is Task 1, which is shown below. You will need to read this alongside the Assignment Brief.

Take Note of the deadline date!

VISITS

Vocational Visits for this Unit will take place on:

31 Jan 12: NAVEX to Plumstead/Shooters Hill
28 Feb 12: NAVEX to Erith
27 Mar 12: NAVEX and QUALIFYING TESTS EXERCISE to Dartford Heath

Yr 11 Improving Health & Fitness for Entry to the Uniformed Public Services

The aim for today's lesson will be to complete P8 (Plan a Personal Health Improvement Programme), to be presented to the class by the end of the lesson!

You will need to save a copy of the power point presentation template from the G Drive and populate with suitable material. There is a guide sheet on the  G Drive, called "A Personal Health Improvement Programme Task" which you should use for ideas.

Also, refer to the post on 9th November 2011 for further ideas, including websites and video clips
Useful Website:

http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/

Year 11 Public Services Learner Award Winner

Congratulations to Ben Eastwood for being selected as the Public Services Award Winner for the Autumn Term 2011. Ben was presented with his certificate and voucher just before the end of term. The next awards will be made in March 2012.