A range of resources and lessons originally designed to go towards the Access to HE Study Skills unit. However, these could be ammended for other pre-university courses e.g. A-level. Activities and guidance sheets include evaluation web pages, a library visit activity focusing on library research skills, time management reflection, CV writing, SWOT analysis production and some interview focused activities.

Originally intended for year 9 students. Students will act as a project manager imagining that a local company has received for a new entertainment complex. The complex will have a shopping area with all the main high street stores and a multi-storey car park. The complex will also have an entertainment zone including cinema, bowling, arcades etc Students task is to project manage the new cinema and help them to overcome some of the problems they will face. Tasks Include: 1) Project front cover (Estimated amount of time 20 mins) 2) A plan of the project (Estimated amount of time 60 mins) 3) Designing (and testing) a logo for the cinema (Estimated amount of time 120 mins including homework) 4) Creating a staff database to store useful information about staff (Estimated amount of time 180 mins) 5) Creating a booking system (spreadsheet) that controls the booking of a screen and indicates how much revenue (money) will be taken if certain seats are sold (Estimated amount of time 180 mins) 6) Designing and creating a 30 second advert for the cinema that will appear on local television (Estimated amount of time 180 mins) 7) Completion of final report (Estimated amount of time 120 mins) 8) A project review evaluating your performance as a project manager (Estimated amount of time 40 mins) You may wish to produce some tutorial lessons on certain areas such as databases, spreadsheets and movie maker dependent on student prior knowledge. At the end of the project students will write a project report which will involve screen shots of their work and annotation of what they have done. The project without tuition will take approximately 15 hours.

Aimed at Year 7 students, an activity booklet which students can type into which covers a range of e-safety points which will complement any e-safety unit. The pack also includes students prompts, student instructions for producing their own PowerPoint Presentation on E-Safety, unit evaluations and other handy tips. The pack also looks at file management and saving work effectively. An e-safety quiz PowerPoint has also been included to be used before students learn about e-safety to assess prior knowledge. This may well be a useful first unit for year 7's.