Case Study – Coquet High School

Coquet High School have used Seed to Saw within their studies at

GNVQ level and have written two Units of Accreditation as follows:

• Forestry and Timber in the General Curriculum Area of Geography and the Specific Curriculum Area of Geography/Humanities. 

• Jobs with Wood in the General Curriculum Area of PSE and the Specific Curriculum Area of Careers Guidance.

Forestry and Timber

For this Unit of Accreditation, students studied and provided evidence of their knowledge of:

• the forestry industry
• timber production
• the differences between coniferous and deciduous trees

• soft and hardwoods produced in the UK
• forestry jobs

 

• peoples views of forestry

 

• the change of attitudes to forests as a leisure facility over time

 

• processes involved in timber production and problems encountered

 

Students demonstrated the ability to:

• contribute to a class display on forestry
• produced graphs to display forestry data

 

• use a web site to obtain information on forestry and timber

Refer to www.woodforgood.com worksheet.

Refer to the Forestry and Timber Unit of Accreditation for further details.

Refer to Printable Worksheets for downloadable resource material used by Coquet High for this unit.

Jobs with Wood

For this Unit of Accreditation, students studied and provided evidence of their knowledge of:

• both traditional jobs and current careers in the forestry and timber industry

 

• their ability to use a careers library to research a job or career
• a letter requesting information about a job

 

• their ability to use careers guidance sheets to assess the skills needed for the chosen job

• their ability to use KUDOS or similar careers program to get occupational information and print out materials
• obtain key points from a careers printout

Refer to the Jobs with Wood Unit of Accreditation for further details.

Refer to Printable Worksheets for downloadable resource material used by Coquet High for this unit.