1. Rural Skills

2. What is different about this course?
Practical involvement
Real workplace activities
Preparing you for work: employability skills

3. Handouts and exercises
Handouts have key information and activities
Questions are designed to make you think hard: not tests!
Answers are often much fuller than you are expected to give

4. What are rural skills?
Write down what you think is meant by the term rural skills.

5. Land-based Industries: an Introduction
Exploring different industries in the land-based sector
Find out if any of the jobs are for you

6. Estate maintenance: an Introduction
Learn the tasks and jobs that are important for maintaining the land.
All practical

7. Employability Skills for Land-based Industries
This will be part of everything you do
More explanation later!

8. Plant Units
Learn about soft landscaping and crop production: by getting involved!

9. Animal Units
Learn about animal handling and husbandry: by getting involved!

10. Group Activity What does employable mean?
Why is being employable important?
What personal qualities does an employer look for in their workers?

11. Employability Skills Timekeeping Attendance
Understanding your roles and responsibilities in the workplace
Planning and Preparing for work
Working co-operatively with others
Awareness of efficient resource use
Health and Safety Awareness

12. Group Activity
What do you think might go wrong without planning and preparing for the following activities?
A)Moving sheep from field to farm along a main road
B)Painting the walls of a shed

13. Ask yourself?
What good comes out of being awkward, huffy and refusing to work with others?
Does it make you feel any better?
Does it gain you any respect?
Is it worth it?

14. Group Activity
List what would you need to plant out bedding plants and water them in
How could you be wasteful with any of these things and cost money for your boss?

15. Safety Awareness
Hazards
Risk
Minimising Risk

16. Risk Assessment What are the hazards for this farrier?
Are these low, medium or high risk hazards?
What could be done/worn to reduce the risk of this hazard?

17. Review and self-evaluation
Carry out practical work
Rate yourself against
employability profile
Make an action plan
With your tutor’s guidance
Reflect on where you
Could get better