A 3 page task booklet to teach the EDSQ (Essential Digital Skills Qualification) Unit 1 - Using Devices - Apply System Settings, Including Accessibility. This quick task booklet gives students the opportunity to demonstrate the usage of system settings, including: Brightness, Volume, Time and connecting to the WiFi. Also checks learning for self-assessment and independence. Perfect for both Entry Level 3 and Level 1 students, including SEN students. There is also an 12 slide PowerPoint presentation to go with it, as well as 2 longer task booklets (Entry Level 3 & Level 1).

A Scheme of Work Year Plan (year overview) for the ICT/Computing Essential Digital Skills Qualification (EDSQ) for Entry Level 3 & Level 1. The year plan uses the Pearson curriculum specification (although can easily be adapted to suit other awarding bodies such as NOCN or OCN). Starting the academic year 2024-2025. Useful as a guide when creating your schemes of work or can be put at the front of students’ folders to chart progress. Ideal for SEN students, the course curriculum is spaced out through the year to allow plenty of time for completion and repeat assessments if needed. It covers all five units: Using Devices and Handling Information Creating and Editing Communicating Transacting Being Safe and Responsible Online.

This is a film review worksheet for students completing Film or Media Studies. It is a 4 page document. Students have to answer questions about the plot, the characters, the graphics and sound.

This is a PowerPoint that I print out and use as a work booklet for students studying Gaming or Media Studies. This resource is an 11 page work booklet that explores the purpose of PEGI age ratings on video games, as well as the content descriptors.

This resource can be used for students that require Rarpa (Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement); it is linked to the PfA (Preparing for Adulthood) goals/target - Friends, Relationship & Community Skills. Where students get to review the progress with their PfA friends, relationships & community goal and tutors can provide written feedback.

This is a Level 1, 8 page task booklet to teach the EDSQ (Essential Digital Skills Qualification) Unit 1 - Using Devices - Operating Systems. Includes sections where students can demonstrate the usage and maintenance of operating systems. Perfect for Entry Level 3 and Level 1 students, including SEN students. There is also an 15 slide PowerPoint presentation to go with it, that is a full teaching PowerPoint, with recap of previous lesson, learning outcomes, gauging prior knowledge, teaching slides, keywords, an extension task and a recap of learning.

This is an 18 slide PowerPoint presentation to teach the EDSQ (Essential Digital Skills Qualification) Unit 1 - Using Devices - Hardware and Software. Perfect for Entry Level 3 and Level 1 students. It is a full teaching PowerPoint, with learning outcomes, gauging prior knowledge, teaching slides, keywords, 2 extension tasks and a recap of learning. There is also a 7 page task booklet that comes with it.

This is a 3 page task booklet to teach the EDSQ (Essential Digital Skills Qualification) Unit 1 - Using Devices - Locate and install and application. It includes sections where students can demonstrate how to install an app. Perfect for both Entry Level 3 and Level 1 students, including SEN students.

I use this resource for students completing the EDSQ Essential Digital Skills Qualification. ICT/IT tutors can use the evidence assessment sheets to state what evidence is provided in the students portfolios, when students have demonstrated practical ICT/IT skills or completed paperwork for their EDSQ course. These 5 assessment sheets are for the Level 1 EDSQ course.

I use this resource for students completing the NOCN (National Open College Network) Entry Level 3 Road Safety Awareness for Pedestrians course. Tutors can use the 5 evidence assessment sheets to state what evidence is provided in the students portfolios, when students have completed paperwork for their NOCN Road Safety Awareness for Pedestrians E3 course. Course code: NOCN M/505/3716 This NOCN course is used in the Travel Training sessions for SEN students

This is a resource I use for students that have completed an Art and Design course. This is an end of course student feedback sheet, so students can feedback how the Art course went and if anything could be improved.

This is a PowerPoint that I print out and use as a work booklet for students studying Film or Media Studies. It is a 17 page work booklet, where the students explore and research the purpose of UK film classification and the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) film ratings.

This is a 2 page resource to support students understanding of sport (football or soccer) vocabulary and its descriptions. Students have to match the football/soccer vocabulary words to its description.

This resource can be used for students studying English Literature. It is a 5 page worksheet, where students are required to read the excerpts of the HG Wells novel, The War of the Worlds and answer questions about the text. It includes questions, such as: How different was man’s idea of Martians compared to how they actually were? How does H.G. Wells describe the breakdown of social order? How would you feel being amongst the crowd?

This is a resource I use for SEN students who are completing Art sessions. At the beginning of the year, the students state what their Art EHCP goal is and how they will achieve it in sessions. This resource is then used to review progress and achievement half way through the year and again at the end of the year. (See accompanying Art EHCP goal set up sheet.)

This resource can be used with students that require support around building social skills. This is an activity where students can list 6 conversations starters on the sheet, before writing them onto a cube net and creating a conversation starter dice. You could use it as a social skills activity during Travel Training sessions, where students are encourage to practice good social skills in the local community; or used as evidence towards the Rarpa, PfA - Preparing for Adulthood target of Friends, Relationships & Community Skills.

This resource can be used for students that require Rarpa (Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement); it is linked to the PfA (Preparing for Adulthood) goal/target: Employment Skills If students have set up their own personal employment skills goal, tutors or LSA’s can provide a witness statement towards this goal. There is also an accompanying evidence sheet, where students can then provide photographic evidence for the goal.

This resource can be used for students studying Gaming, Media Studies or Creative iMedia. This is just a 1 page resource that encourages students to design a poster for their favourite video game. This resource can be used as an extension task, for substitute teaching or as a fun task for Functional Skills English/Literacy (persuasive text). Suitable for SEN students or Entry Level 3+

A game genre mind map to use in Gaming or Media Studies. Students have to name as many game genres as they can, their favourite game genre and to name a game from that genre. I use this resource as a lesson starter when teaching video game genre.