This is my attendance lesson with activities. I have included a brief lesson plan, the Power Point, and activity resources. The learners look at how their attendance would look to employers and highlights the importance of high attendance.

This is a activity for learners to sort and discuss various situations and whether they are a safeguarding issue. Learners can be asked to explain why they think they are, tutors can suggest further information to the situation. For instance, ‘Adding a member of staff on Facebook’ - what if they are related? etc There are 45 cards to sort and two cards to be used as place mat for Safeguarding Issue, and Not a Safeguarding Issue.

These are a different 9 cards which describe various scenarios indicating safeguarding problems. Learners can use these to discuss risks, problems arising, things that might help. These get discussions flowing about the problems and to consider how people they interact with daily might be facing these problems. A good introduction to advise them what to do in these situations.

This is a scheme of work I designed as a Progress and Destination Tutor. You can edit it to make it your own or make it more relevant to the subject you support. This is geared up for building trade students. It includes 30 brief lesson plans. Some of the resources on the lesson plans are ones I have uploaded to TES. Lessons embed Maths and English where appropriate, and cover a wide range of subjects (see photo of contents).

Use this form for one student at a time to record progress of their work related skills and attitudes. There are four sections to record progress four times a year to see improvements or areas to be worked at.

A great form to guide learners to think about what they might be asked at interview and to think of situations they have been in that they can use as examples for situation based questions.

This is a presentation to teach and engage learners in conversation about healthy eating. It covers each food group, what could happen if you have a poor diet and what a balanced diet is. The activity takes learners through a McDonald’s meal to understand calories and proportions, and how much exercise is needed to use up the energy.

This is a bundle of 2 crosswords and answer sheets on the subject of managing money and employment finance.

This is a bundle of 6 crosswords and their answer sheets relating to the following subjects: Mental Health Drugs Alcohol Safeguarding Bullying Resilience and Determination

This is a bundle of 6 crosswords with answer sheets on the following subjects: Soft skills Rights and Responsibilities Work Ethic Interviews Growth Mind-set Customer Services

This is a bundle of 5 crosswords with the answer sheet, on the following subjects: British Values Prevent Duty Equality and Diversity Democracy Rule of Law

These are 6 pictures i designed for students to describe to each other. They can sit back to back or facing each other as long as the picture is hidden. The student holding the image must describe it to the other student who must then draw as instructed. They must not use words to describe the item, like “boat” or “tree”, but rather describe lines and shapes. These can also be used for team working activity, where one person describes it to a group of people, who must between themselves, draw the image - this means learners discuss among themselves where they think lines should go, they might delegate one person to do one stage each, or elect someone to draw with others guiding.

This is a set of 24 scenario cards, 12 Person A and 12 Person B. Any Person A card can be used with any Person B card which creates a range of scenarios between them. Person A has an issue which is effecting them at work. Person B is someone at work and have different responsibilities. The learners can role play these or they can be used as discussion prompts. The subjects cover bullying, personal problems, work issues and motivation. They can be looked at in terms of work ethics, equality and diversity, appropriate behaviours, policies and procedures and problem solving.

This activity is great for teaching customer service skills, communication skills and problem solving. There are 8 customer cards and 8 staff cards. The customer cards have a scenario that the customer needs sorting. The staff card has information to set the background/attitude of the staff. Any staff card can be put with any customer card, so there are numerous combinations that can be used. These can be used to role play a scenario, where the learners can then feedback on their experiences. The learners can also either role play or suggest a better way of dealing with the situation, and analyse what went wrong in the examples.

This is a little activity to get learners thinking about the pros and cons of working for yourself. In groups, they discuss what they think would be a positive and what would be a negative. They can use them as discussion prompts, or to rate the positives from least important to most important. These activities are great opportunities for generating discussion and debate among the learners.

I teach a cohort of predominantly male students. I use this when discussing bullying to make them aware of how their comments could be taken by other students. We also discuss how they might be subjected to sexual harassment, and how they might be accused of it. I find this session also breaks the ice as they become quite passionate about some subjects that emerge from the discussion, so I use this early in the year. At the end there is a link to a video about sexual consent.

For equality and diversity, or disability awareness, this card sort activity encourages learners to experience completing an activity with a disadvantage. Afterwards, they discuss the activity, how they felt, what adjustments could be made to make the task accessible. You will need a deck of cards. The instructions are included with the activity.