Valley College Pace 2 Home Learning Tasks Spring Term 2021 - Week Commencing 26/01/2021
Please complete the following tasks at home with your learner.
All worksheets and resources for these sessions will be either emailed or sent out to yourself as a hard copy.
Work Related Learning- Different types of work
Have a look at this Oak Academy session. If you click on presentation or worksheet you will access the same work but the worksheet version is more accessible using symbols if this helps. Complete the work set in the slides by either discussing or making notes.
https://teachers.thenational.academy/lessons/different-types-of-work-61gkac
Independent Life Skills- Topic- Cleaning the bathroom and laundry
Topic- Cleaning the bathroom and laundry
Use the Oak Academy link below to learn how to organise and sort clothing. Follow the instructions on the presentation and have a go at home.
Try and link together all the skills you are learning.
https://teachers.thenational.academy/lessons/organising-clothes-69h30c
Life Skills Assessment
I have sent out 3 life skills assessment pages. I would like you to look at the skills on each page and decide if you are
- independent in that skill
- need some assistance
- or you don’t know.
Why not have a go at each of the skills to find out!
Functional Literacy-Topic- Sentence Focus (constructing sentences), Following instructions and Functional Numeracy- Topic- Common Measure
Virtual Cross-curricular session with Eileen
This weeks virtual session is Functional Literacy and Numeracy together.
We will be completing a scavenger hunt to find items in your house. If you can Zoom on a phone or iPad, it may make things easier but not a problem if not.
Cross-curricular session
Look at the lockdown diary sent last week. Have a go at completing some more pages. This will be a great reminder in the future of what we have all been through during his pandemic.
Community Based Projects- Working in a Care Home/The Elderly.
During this topic we would normally have been visiting care homes and completing work experience. During these sessions you would have been completing various skills within the care home.
Please complete these skills in your own home instead:
- Make some buns (see recipe attached)
- Do some gardening or plant a bulb
- Make the bed
- Make a cup of tea/coffee
- Fold/hang some items of clothing.
Computing
VIRTUAL SESSION Computing
During lockdown, virtual sessions have become very important. In today’s virtual session we are going to have some fun!!
I am going to teach you some fun tricks on Zoom. Please try and use a tablet or laptop for this session as it just makes it easier. Not a problem if not!.
Citizenship- Topic- Friendships
Look at the resources provided in the email. Look at the photos of various situations and discuss what is happening in the photo. Decide if the photo show a friendly or unfriendly manner.
Can you think of a time when you were friendly and unfriendly?
PSD
VIRTUAL SESSION with Eileen PSD- Topic- Consequences of actions
During today’s virtual session we will be looking at consequences to actions. Please have the resources sent out ready for the session.
Sport & Leisure
VIRTUAL SESSION with Eileen
(please have your sport kit on and have enough space to move!!)
Community Engagement – Communication
Look at the Oak Academy session below. Follow the instructions within the slides. There are several tasks to complete such as matching shop logos, watching TV adverts and writing shopping lists.
https://teachers.thenational.academy/lessons/knowing-which-shop-to-buy-from-6gt32c
Tutorials
I would like all learners to attend the tutorial session each morning at 9:30am. It is a good session for all learners to see all other learners and staff and is also helpful for advocates as I go through the days sessions and resources.
Please see the daily link emailed to yourself to access these tutorial sessions.
Information
If you can take pictures of your learner completing these activities and email me the pictures I would be really grateful.
I hope you are all doing well. We are all missing you.
Eileen Melling
Head of Valley College
Assistant Head
Specialist Leader in Education
NCETM Professional Development Leader
Please, if possible, take photos of all your work and email them to e.melling@theviewtrust.org