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Qualifications and Course Elements

In their first and second year at Ruskin Mill Educational Trust each student's Individual Programme is centred around a rolling programme of 12 practical skills course elements referred to as the Foundation Programme. This offers an Open College Network (OCN) credit at Entry Level, Level 1 or Level 2 in subjects which cover a range of fundamental processes and the use of``naturally occurring materials. Aims of the programme include:

  • enabling the students to experience through their own activity their relationship to the natural environment and its cycles;
  • enabling the students to gain a range of practical skills and related knowledge in subject areas where they are unlikely to have any previous experience of failure;
  • enabling the students to gain awareness of practical uses of numeracy and literacy through involving them in calculating and recording when appropriate;
  • enabling the students to gain confidence in their own abilities and enhanced self esteem through the production of useful and beautiful artefacts;
  • enabling the students to develop a range of social and inter-personal skills;
  • introducing the students to appropriate work habits and related knowledge that will help them in the process of deciding on an appropriate vocational route.

Although there is a degree of flexibility all students in their first two years at Ruskin Mill College and Glasshouse College are expected to take part in the Foundation Programme.

In addition to the 12 practical units two further units are available for all students on completion of the programme. These are called:

  • Making Sense of the Environment and Communicating with Others
  • Relating to Work, Colleagues and the Environment

They have been designed to give the students credit for the social and interpersonal skills that they have developed while taking part in the programme.

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Vocational Training
During a students third year (and fourth year when appropriate) a vocational training option will replace the Foundation Programme at the centre of the Individual Programme. Students are helped to choose an appropriate course. This may be one of the course elements that is offered on site, or it could involve working with another local provider.

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Courses in Numeracy and Literacy
All practical subjects are delivered with the aim of supporting the students' acquisition of basic educational skills. This takes place through first building self esteem and then providing a wide range of examples of the use of numeracy through involving the students in calculating and recording where appropriate.

Desk-based literacy and numeracy classes are part of every student's ILP and where ever possible draw on the students' practical activities for working examples. For many students literacy and numeracy represents the experience of repeated failure in previous schools or colleges. Accordingly sessions are short and limited to once or twice each week with the aim of maximising their effectiveness.

Courses in Numeracy and Literacy generally lead to accreditation. A range of qualifications are available in order to ensure that the student's ability and progress are reflected accurately:

  • OCN Entry Level - Numeracy, Time and Measurement
  • Number Power
  • NPTC VFC Numeracy and Literacy
  • AEB Achievement Tests in Numeracy
  • SEG Certificate of Achievement in Maths
  • GCSE Maths
  • OCN Entry Level - Initial Literacy Skills
  • Word Power
  • NPTC VFC Numeracy and Literacy
  • AEB Achievement Tests in Literacy
  • SEG Certificate of Achievement in English
  • GCSE English

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A list of the course elements currently available at RMET
Practical Skills Development
Craft Work Course Elements
Glassblowing (Stourbridge) Soap Making
Glass Cutting (Stourbridge) Stained Glass
Green Woodwork (Tool Making) Stone carving
Green Woodwork Tanning
Iron Age Forge Pottery
Jewellery Textiles
Papermaking Tool Construction
Rugmaking Woodwork
 
Land Work Course Elements
Coppicing Hedge laying (occasionally)
Dairy Work Horticulture (Gables Farm)
Donkey Work Horticulture (Market Garden)
Fish Farm Horticulture (Upper Grange)
Forestry/Woodland Management Woodland Work (Fridays)
 
Food Preparation Course Elements
Bread Baking & Food Preservation Catering - Horsley Mill Canteen
Catering - Forest Shelter Catering - Upper Grange
 
Other Practical Skills Course Elements
Aikido Photography
Archery and Gymnastics Clothes Maintenance
Art - using plant/natural colours Cycling Proficiency
Car Mechanics Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Climbing Riding
 
Work Experience - on site
Building and Construction Grocery Store (Farm)
Coffee Shop Vegetable/Craft Shop (Ruskin Mill)
 
Work Experience - off site
Meningitis Trust Avening Play Group
Landsdown Pottery Nylaflex
Oxfam Betta Butties
Close Nursery Landscape contractor
Pappas Pizzas Fairbank Farm Stables
Chalford Farm Supplies Trading Post (CD store)
Oak Frame Co Church Court card Home
Eastington Park care Home  
 
Vocational Training - on site
NcFE Green Wood Work NcFE Bread and Cake Baking
NcFE Forge Work NcFE Concrete Casting
NcFE Basket Making NVQ 2 Landscapes and Ecosystems
 
Vocational Training - off site
NVQ 1 & 2 Retail NVQ 1 Warehouse and Distribution
NVQ 1 & 2 Business and Administration NVQ 2 childcare
NVQ 1 & 2 Agriculture  
 
Continuing Education Skill Development
Artl Music (for a group of students connected with drama)
Cartoon Drawing Music (Sound and Space)
Computers (producing Run of the Mill, college newsletter etc) Nutrition (mainly for students in independence or for those in their last year)
Guitar lessons Sports Science
Music  
 
College Placements
Special Cookery Classes - Stroud College(SC) NPTC Cooking - Cirencester College
Photography - SC Engineering Club - SC
Wood work - SC Computer Studies - GLOSCAT
Conversational Spanish - SC CLAIT(computer course) - SC
 
Communication Skill Development
Communication (Drama) workshop Speech and language workshops
Communication (Language) workshop Speech workshop
Drama Storytelling
Drama GCSE  
 
Independent Living Skills Development
NPTC Vocational Foundation Certificate in Independent Living Skills  
 
Individual Therapy
Art Therapy Extra Lesson
Counselling Massage
Eurythmy Zero balancing

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Introduction to RMET  |  Recruitment Policy & Admission Criteria  |  The RMET Curriculum  |  The Students Individual Learning Plan  |  Qualifications & Course Elements  |  Residential Arrangements & Learning Opportunities  |  Learning Independent Living Skills  |  The Learning Resources at RMET  |  RMET Management & Administration