What will you learn?
Students will learn how to create a newsletter using IT. You’ll learn about the importance of team-working and using their own initiative to produce a finished document. You will also learn about interviewing people.

Who is it for?
This personalised opportunity helps students explore and develop skills for work placement.

What’s involved?
Tasks and activities are tailored to each student’s interests and requirements. They include organising the ‘swap shop’ at Upmo, maintaining musical equipment, creating and producing radio shows, organising notice boards, paper recycling and organising registers.

What will you learn?
Students learn to take responsibility for tasks on a regular basis. You’ll learn about timekeeping, develop professional skills and interact in socially acceptable ways. Links to companies and agencies are fostered to ensure students can learn as much as possible about the role, to inspire and motivate in the long term.

Who is it for?
This is usually a one-to-one session for anyone wishing to improve existing literacy and/or numeracy skills.

What’s involved?
Each 10-week session is built around the needs of the student – literacy covers phonics, reading and oral work. Students are also encouraged to undertake comprehension activities and expand personal reading to match their development. Numeracy covers number work, money, real life problems and weights/measures.

What will you learn?
Literacy students will learn to identify and blend sounds, read and spell gradually more complex words and use sentences within written tasks. Comprehension and practical understanding are incorporated as each student progresses. The sessions are adapted to suit the needs of each student. Numeracy students learn to transfer skills into real life situations (eg, paying in a shop, telling the time, reading timetables). The sessions are based around the Curriculum for Excellence and provide a progressive programme for individuals.