Ms. Garratt’s Blog
Here you’ll find a range of resources to help you get the most from your PSHE lessons. I’ve included links to recommended websites as well as a range of study materials to help you become increasingly independent and successful learners. If you need help come and see me or contact me through this Blog.Archive for Year 10 Resources
Great Web-based Careers Resources
Careers Education and Guidance – Students’ Web Based Resources for Website and Blog
This file contains a list of great resources that you can use to help you think about careers and your post-16 learning plans. The list was given to me when I attended a Connexions training day last week. I’ve included a brief outline of what information you’ll find on the various websites. Whether you know exactly what you want to do in your working life or whether you ‘haven’t a clue’, spend a bit of time seeing what these sites have to offer.
3 Princes, Daniel Craig, Robin Williams, The Dalai Lama and a Computer Generated Frog
Watching the early evening news tonight I picked up on the fact that Prince Charles has been filmed with a very fetching large green frog – I assumed it was the real thing but not so – and has persuaded others including his two sons, Daniel Craig and The Dalai Lama no less, to be similarly filmed, complete with the attendant frog.
It’s all to do with raising people’s awareness about environment issues, in particular our care of the rain forests. Apparently you can find the video footage on My Space and possibly on YouTube as well. Can the first person to find it, send the link through as a comment to this Post? I have an evening of marking ahead of me and would appreciate some help with this one!
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Your Comments Needed on the Mike Buckley Smartrisk Presentation
This assignment is a MUST for my Year 10 teaching Groups (please file you comments by Thursday 30th April) and an OPTION for my Year 9 and Year 11 students.
Mike Buckley has been in touch, told us how impressed he and the rest of the Smartrisk team were by Ashlawn and its students, and asked for some direct feedback to be sent through to him. So…over to you! You could comment on any combination or all of the following:
- What things the Smartrisk presentation made you think about
- What part of the Smartrisk presentation made the most impact on you and why
- How you will think about and/or do things differently in future because of watching the Smartrisk presentation
- Why you think it’s important for young people to have a chance to see the Smartrisk presentation.
Success
Success is a choice not a chance.
I read this in the latest edition of the Ashlawn newsletter. I think it’s a great statement. What do you think about it?
Have you worked hard on something and made it happen? Would you say that you’ve made a success of that thing? If you have and would like to share what you’ve done with others, send through a comment to this Post.
S.I.L.K. (Students’ Independent Learning Kit) for Investigating Marriage Module
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This file contains an edited version of a chapter from Religion and Life by Victor Watton.
In it you will find masses of information about Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim beliefs and attitudes to marriage and family life. Take some time to read through the resources picking out the things that you find most interesting. You could focus on the ideas of one faith or, perhaps, compare and contrast the beliefs and attitudes of two faiths. What are your views? Why exactly is it that you hold these views? Post a reply to this Post so you can share your ideas with others.
Saving Your Work – Important!
Mr McFall has asked that all students are aware of the following:
‘When using any school ICT facilities you MUST save your work every 10 to 15 minutes. At the moment many of you aren’t saving your work until the end of the lesson. If your computer crashes at this point or the system hangs you will lose all your work. Not a pleasant experience.
Read on…
The Microsoft Office system has an ‘autosave’ feature BUT IT ONLY WORKS IF YOU SAVE YOUR WORK IN THE FIRST PLACE. The Autosave feature saves a non-committed save (i.e. it doesn’t save to the actual file, just a temporary one until you actually tell it to save) every 5 minutes or thereabouts.
Other programs on the network DO NOT have this feature so this is why you MUST get into the habit of saving your work regularly.’
The bottom line is that it is your responsibility to look after your work. Please take all the necessary precautions.
Important Please Read This – Filing Homework Responses
When you file your homework through WordPress, please put your full name at the end of every post. This means that I can quickly see who’s sent in a response and other students viewing the Comments Section can see whose work it is.
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Marriage Module
Here are one person’s ideas of some of the things that contribute to successful marriages:
- Accept from the start that neither of you is perfect.
- Work hard at being unselfish and think of your partner’s feelings rather than your own.
- Listen to your partner even when you’re not interested in what he/she is saying.
- Talk to each other regularly – about anything.
- When in public, support your partner unconditionally even when you know he/she is wrong.
- Surprise each other now and then.
- Never, ever, take each other for granted.
- Show respect for, and trust in, each other.
- Always maintain courtesy and good manners in the relationship.
- Understand that a loving relationship takes many forms and is individual to you and your partner.
(And do things for your partner at short notice even when you are busy!)
What do you think? What ideas could you add to these?
