Skills for life and work

St Roch’s Secondary

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St Roch’s Secondary Glasgow

Curriculum for Excellence

• Allow more choices and chances to meet the needs of individual young people.

• Make sure that assessment and certification support learning.

• Equip young people with the skills they will need for tomorrow’s workforce.

• Enable young people to flourish in life and work beyond school.

Main Concerns

The pupils are not enthusiastic about studying a language.

The pupils lack confidence in their own ability to find and keep a job.

The pupils have little understanding of the life skills required for work.

Centre for Confidence

• Do not pay attention to learning information

• Get depressed and lose self-esteem

• Denigrate their intelligence

• Under-represent past success

• Over-represent failure

Was Michael Jordan born slam dunking?

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed”.

Michael Jordan

Self Evaluation for Employment

• About Me • It is important that you know about yourself –

the things you like about yourself and the things that you think you might like to be better at.

• In the spaces below you should list five words that you think describe you best. You should not be looking at just how you look:

Here are some examples of qualities, but this time in French:

carefulprécautioneux/ qui fait attention

neat appearance Une apparence soignée

Good with children/ animals

Savoir s’occuper des enfants/ des animaux

1.Je suis précautionneux/ efficace/ patient/ motivé/ à l’heure.2.J’ai une belle écriture / des facilités de communication/ une apparence soignée.3.Je ne fais pas de fautes d’orthographe.4.Je sais m’occuper des enfants/ des animaux.

Self Evaluation

Sample Assessments

RENSEIGNEMENTS D’ORDRE GENERAL Date et lieu de naissance AdresseNuméro de téléphoneÉmail

English French30th April in Mogadishu 30th avril dans Mogadishu

25 Rhymer St 25 Rhymer St0141 582 0270 0141 582 0270ABCfc@live.co.uk ABCfc@live.co.uk

FORMATION ET ETUDES EN COURS

1.2008 Maths pass Examen de maths réussiEnglish pass Examen d’Anglais réussiAdministration pass Examen d’informatique réussi2009 2009Art pass Examen D’arts plastiques réussiEnglish pass Examen D’anglais réussi

STAGES ET EXPERIENCE PROFESSIONNELLE

No work experience Je n’ai pas d’experience at all professionelle

CENTRES D’INTERETpasse-temps, loisirs, activités personnelles/extra-professionnelles

Football and ps3 Jouer au foot et à la ps3. Aller au cinéma.I also go to the cinema. I prefer J’aime la musique en particulier le rap. rap music

DIVERS/QUALITES Je parle Somalien et je parle français. J’ai de bonnes compétences en informatique. Je suis très travailleur et motivé.Je parle parfaitement anglais, ma grammaire en particulier est excellente.

• Why are you interested in this vacancy?• Are there any achievements/activities you are

particularly proud of?• What are your main personal strengths.• Have you had any part-time work/work

experience? • Do you have any responsibilities outside school?• An extremely angry person comes to your

workplace unhappy with the service they have received. How would you handle the situation?

• Could you give an example of when you have worked successfully in a team?

Pupil feedback

• I replied well and was confident. I was a little bit nervous in the beginning, but I felt proud of myself. I smiled, made her laugh and asked a lot of questions.

• I am more confident about talking to others and giving my opinions and ideas to help.

• I need to do more reading and learn new words

Personal Development - Role Play

Skills for Work & Life

• French/ Italian for Work Purposes Int 1&2 • Business: Dev Skills for Employment Int 2

Personal Development Int 1• Core Skills ICT Int 1/2 • Customer Care Int 1• Service Extraordinaire (Novotel)

Virtual Work Experience

DeskspaceSkills for Work

Developments

• Retail

• Travel & Tourism

• Hospitality

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