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Rural Skills

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This course focuses on developing essential rural skills through practical involvement and real workplace activities. Participants will engage in exercises related to land-based industries, estate maintenance, soft landscaping, crop production, and animal husbandry. The curriculum emphasizes employability skills such as timekeeping, teamwork, and health and safety awareness. Each handout provides key information and thought-provoking questions to encourage deeper understanding. Assessment includes self-evaluation and action planning, ensuring participants are well-prepared for careers in rural settings.

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Rural Skills

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  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. 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 Employability Skills

  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

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