22. Subsequent to your Level 3 Forest School qualification, please use the tables below to describe the CPD you have taken part in to help develop your skills and understanding, over the last 2 years. You need to demonstrate at least 28 hours of Type 1 CPD over the last 2 years and some additional hours from Type 2 CPD. Type 1 CPD includes face to face courses, attendance at conferences and accredited online courses. Type 2 CPD includes attendance at local groups, online forums, reading books/journals/online content, participating in projects, discussions with peers and attending skills-sharing sessions. Your 28 hours of Type 1 CPD learning must clearly relate to at least 3 of the 5 Forest School Units: Delivery of a Forest School Programme Learning and Development at a Forest School Planning and preparation of a Forest School Programme Practical Skills for a Forest School Programme Forest School Programmes & the Woodland Environment In addition, your answer must clearly demonstrate that you have: kept up to date with trends in education kept up to date with Health and Safety matters undertaken some CPD that relates to improving your training and assessment practice You can use Type 1 and/or Type 2 CPD to demonstrate how you have done this. Please note that because you are already required by law to ‘ensure adequate and appropriate First Aid at Work’ is in place, we will not accept CPD relating to First Aid in this section. Please do not record Food Hygiene in this section either; this is covered in question 34. Type 1 CPD - face to face courses, attendance at conferences and accredited online courses Date Title Duration CPD provider FS unit link
28. Please tell us about at least 4 different assessment methods you use on your courses. You need to demonstrate that you use a variety of methods for assessing different elements of Forest School practice. 29. How do you your training provision and assessment methodologies for those with additional requirements? Please tell us about any examples of how you accommodated additional needs on your courses. You need to demonstrate that: you share your policy on disability in the information given to all course applicants you ask each person before a course begins whether any additional needs exist in the event of additional needs you discuss and make any reasonable adjustments to your training and assessment you can give specific examples of how you have met individual (by giving a brief case study) 30. How do you support your students in the hours of the qualification? You need to demonstrate, as a minimum, that you: Provide students with your email and phone number Offer to link students on a social network (e.g. Whatsapp or Facebook) Signpost students to additional course materials (e.g. handouts, videos, websites, books) You might, in addition, use Skype tutorials, telephone surgery days, standard emails to all students or bespoke emails to students.
Supervision Duty of care Adequate and appropriate equipment Knife Act 1997 Prevention of Crime Act 1953 section 1 Criminal Justice Act 1988 Transportation of knives Definitions of offensive weapons Countryside & Wildlife Act 1981 Collection of plant material Impact of activity on protected species Disturbance to nesting birds Introduction of invasive species Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 Access to sites Nature conservation status of Protection of habitats Equality Act 2010 Access to training for people with additional requirements Making reasonable adjustments Discrimination Equality of opportunity The Data Protection Act 1998 Sharing personal information relating to students and beyond, the cohort