Rural Skills

What is different about this course?

• Practical involvement• Real workplace

activities• Preparing you for

work: employability skills

Handouts and exercises

• Handouts have key information and activities

• Questions are designed to make you think hard: not tests!

• Answers are often much fuller than you are expected to give

What are rural skills?

Write down what you think is meant by the term rural skills.

Land-based Industries: an Introduction

• Exploring different industries in the land-based sector

• Find out if any of the jobs are for you

Estate maintenance: an Introduction

• Learn the tasks and jobs that are important for maintaining the land.

• All practical

Employability Skills for Land-based Industries

• This will be part of everything you do

• More explanation later!

Plant Units

• Learn about soft landscaping and crop production: by getting involved!

Animal Units

• Learn about animal handling and husbandry: by getting involved!

• What does employable mean?

• Why is being employable important?

• What personal qualities does an employer look for in their workers?

Group Activity

Employability Skills

• Timekeeping• Attendance• Understanding your

roles and responsibilities in the workplace

• Planning and Preparing for work

• Working co-operatively with others

• Awareness of efficient resource use

• Health and Safety Awareness

• What do you think might go wrong without planning and preparing for the following activities?

• A)Moving sheep from field to farm along a main road

• B)Painting the walls of a shed

Group Activity

Ask yourself?

• What good comes out of being awkward, huffy and refusing to work with others?

• Does it make you feel any better?

• Does it gain you any respect?

• Is it worth it?

• List what would you need to plant out bedding plants and water them in

• How could you be wasteful with any of these things and cost money for your boss?

Group Activity

Safety Awareness

• Hazards• Risk• Minimising Risk

Risk Assessment

• What are the hazards for this farrier?

• Are these low, medium or high risk hazards?

• What could be done/worn to reduce the risk of this hazard?

Review and self-evaluation

Carry out practical work Rate yourself against employability profile

Reflect on where youCould get better

Make an action planWith your tutor’s guidance