Raising Aspirations and Awareness

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Raising Aspirations and Awareness

• By Briony Goldsmith
• Amanda Pellatt

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• Workshops and Taster Days
• College No Students Workshop Taster
• Queen Elizabeths Community College
  20 12/07/05 N/A
• Bideford College 9 08/12/05 16/03/06
• Lipson Community College ? 27/04/06
  10/11May
• Stoke Damerel Commnity College 11 10/11/05
  16/12/05
• Redruth College 1 17/01/05 TBC
• Tavistock School 1 26/01/06 TBC
• Torquay Community College 2 12/12/05
  16/03/06
• Brannel School 20 07/03/06 TBC

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• Workshop
• To run a fun, participatory session that helps
  learners with an SPLD
• consider what Higher Education means to them and
  what support is
• available.
• Ice breakers
• Video
• Student Ambassador personal story
• Group work
• Presentation of group work
• Disabled Student Allowance
• Quiz
• Evaluation of session and open discussion

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Learner Feedback

• Discovering Uni isnt that bad
• It was helpful to work with Student Ambassadors
• I know that I can get help at university
• Best bits about the workshop sticky buns and
  pastries!!!
• The workshop Brilliant, Excellent and Good Fun
• If you are disabled you get free stuff for your
  education
• I know I can go to uni for every subject
• Work Shop All Cool
• If you are dyslexic you get free money (DSA)

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• Taster Day
• To attend a day at an FE/HE Institution to give
  students a hands on
• experience of Higher Education.
• Ice breaker
• Lecture on relevant subject area
• Practical lesson in a chosen discipline
• Tour of college
• Lunch on campus
• Development of work into another discipline
• Evaluation and discussion on experience

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• Celebrating Dyslexia Event
• A weeks event being held at Plymouth College of
  Art and Design (PCAD)
• exhibiting work created by SPLD learners at all
  levels in education.
• Conference with expert speakers
• Private view of exhibition
• Stands, e.g. assistive technology, AchievAbility,
  support services etc.
• Performance
• Parents workshop
• The event will be documented on DVD and
  distributed as a smaller
• touring exhibition.
• (Event is being funded by PCAD, AchieveAbility,
  Aimhigher Peninsula
• Programme and The Head Trust (The Foundations for
  Higher Education
• in Art and Design)

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Audience Participation

• Now its time to put your thinking caps on!
• We would like the audience to work in small
• groups and come up with new ideas on how
• we could continue to support these learners.
• Your groups will need to feedback!

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• Summary
• Summary of audience feedback
• Any questions
• Any further information required