Other projects funded by Dysg which are relevant to the WBQ
National Key Skills Support Programme Cymru
Schools
Duke of Edinburgh Award - Rhondda Cynon Taf LEA
Rhondda Cynon Taf schools worked in partnership to use the Duke of Edinburgh Award as a model for delivering key skills. The Duke of Edinburgh Award is being piloted in RCT as a mainstream curriculum entitlement for all students. By using the wider key skills for additional accrediation young people in need of encouragement and motivation are able to achieve qualifications within the overall programme. Schools participating in this programme include: St Johns CW High School, Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun and Cardinal Newman High School. (Replication project)
http://www.dysg.org.uk/content/view/265/79/lang,en/
Welsh Bac and WEW - St Cyres High School St Cyres aim to raise awareness, knowledge and understanding of the wider key skills as part of the Welsh Baccalaureate. Students will carry out activities in improving own learning and performance, problem solving and working with others at a WBQ induction conference at Swansea University. They will use and develop these skills further during their study of the Welsh Baccalaureate core and options. http://www.dysg.org.uk/content/view/320/79/lang,en/
Supporting Hospice - Ysgol Bryn Elian, Dysg projectThis project enables WBQ students to apply and accredit their Communication, ICT and PS key skills to raise funds through Enterprise activities to support St Davids' Hospice in Llandudno. Work-Related Education, Enterprise Activity, Working with Others.
http://www.dysg.org.uk/content/view/314/79/lang,en/
National Museum & Galleries of WalesThe aim of the project is to take Museum based heritage education into four communities across Wales. Community participants aged 16-24 will use a range of key skills to interpret objects and present their findings through developing community archives and disseminating their work through travelling exhibitions.
http://www.dysg.org.uk/content/view/299/79/lang,en/
The Raft Race - Coleg Llandrillo
Delivering Key Skills through the Welsh Baccalaureate pilot. The aim of this project was to deliver the key skills of working with others, problem solving, parts of AoN, and communications with WBQ pilot students through the planning, making and carrying out of a competitive raft race. At the end of the project students will have worked in teams to plan the financing, resourcing, building and organisation of a raft race whilst meeting the key skills criteria. http://www.dysg.org.uk/content/view/304/79/lang,en/
Student support 4 key skills in key skills - St David's College
The aim of this project is to enhance the delivery and achievement of the main key skills at levels 1 and 2 and basic adult literacy/communication and numeracy/AoN skills through the development of a programme of peer support. Students who have achieved a main key skill at level 3 or who are working towards this would act as 'learning coaches' to their fellow students. The learning coaches would accredit wider key skills at levels 2 and 3 while the 'mentored' students would achieve main key skills at levels 1 and 2. Includes more than 30 level 1 students as well as 700 pupils in 4 schools (year 9 and 10) and 8 staff. Links basic and key skills in an FE setting. http://www.dysg.org.uk/content/view/313/79/lang,en/
Community Volunteering - Coleg Gwent (Crosskeys Campus)
Coleg Gwent teamed up with GAVO to provide 'real-life' opportunities for students to develop key skills, including wider key skills, thus demonstrating the importance of key skills, their transferability and their interrelationship with the students' mainstream courses.
This involved a Fresher's Fair drawing attention to volunteering, the launch of "Community Volunteering at Crosskeys" which attracted over 2000 students and a volunteering training course. Nineteen students signed up for volunteering, and as part of this they were able to work towards the key skills qualification working with others. Crosskeys campus is currently piloting the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification and it is envisaged that this project will form the basis for much of the work experience and community participation elements of this. http://www.dysg.org.uk/content/view/138/79/lang,en/
Promoting problem based learning in A-level Biology - Neath Port Talbot College
Scenarios for problem-based learning in A-level Biology will be designed to incorporate communication, ICT, problem solving and working with others key skills at levels 2 and 3. http://www.dysg.org.uk/content/view/301/79/lang,en/
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