1. ALL PARTS OF THE CANDIDATE DIARY MUST BE COMPLETED SATISFACTORILY.

2. An assessor or supervisor must sign/comment to confirm that the candidate has successfully completed each of the parts below. WRE: Work experience/work focused activities WRE: Enterprise activity PSE: Key issues PSE: Community Participation WEW: Key issues WEW: Language Module

3.  Responses must be appropriate for the Intermediate level.  Each question or task should be considered carefully.  Candidates should show that they have understood what they have done and can reflect briefly and successfully on what they have gained from their experiences.

4.  The candidate must provide evidence of activities undertaken e.g. when considering one of the WEW/PSE key issues.  Candidates may comment on one substantial activity or several shorter activities. Describe the activities you have taken part in. DESCRIBING ACTIVITIES

5. Below a candidate describes an activity in PSE. Which key issue have you decided to write about? The issue I have chosen to write about is sustainable development and global citizenship. Describe activities you have taken part in. We produced a newsletter on the environment and sustainable development. Each member of the group wrote an article on a specific aspect of this topic. I wrote about the importance of recycling. This candidate describes a substantial activity and records this clearly.

6. Here is another example: Describe activities you have taken part in.  Outside speaker  Class discussion In this example the candidate has not provided enough information. The information should be put in context. Who was the speaker? What was the discussion about?

7. REFLECTING ON LEARNING EXPERIENCES OR PROGRESS  Candidates must not just describe the activities but comment on what they learnt from them or enjoyed about them  Comments need not be detailed but must be relevant.  Candidates may highlight one significant example, or comment on several shorter ones. I’ll describe what I learnt about healthy eating and how to do a presentation about it.

8. Below the candidate reflects on the PSE activities described earlier. For my part in the newsletter I wrote about recycling. I learnt how to research the internet effectively and the techniques you need to write an interesting article. By reading the articles my friends wrote in the newsletter, I also learnt more about recycling and the problems facing the environment. I enjoyed discussing ways to help the environment and I am going to recycle more in future, especially my plastic water bottles. The candidate has made several relevant comments and shows how they developed their knowledge, understanding and skills.

9. Here is another example of a learner from the same group commenting on the same activity. I wrote a newspaper article about the environment. I researched the use of plastic bags in supermarkets. Some supermarkets insist people use their own bags. The candidate has not answered the question i.e. commented on what they enjoyed and were able to learn from their activity.

10. WRITING ABOUT SKILLS In order to meet the key skills/essential skills requirements candidates must achieve certificates in four of the six and show evidence, in the diary, of having made progress in the others. Comments do not need to be detailed, but it is important to answer the questions set.

11. Below the candidate completes a section for Working With Others Give an example of when you have worked in a group or a team? I worked with others as part of community participation. We made Christmas hampers for old people in our area. Give an example of a challenge that faced your group or team? How did the group overcome this challenge? Our biggest problem was delivering the heavy hampers. We had to ask our teachers to help by giving us a lift in their cars. There was bad weather when we were going to deliver the hampers. We decided to make rain covers for the hampers and this worked quite well.. All parts of the questions have been answered.

12. How could you/your group have done better when working together? We could have done better by doing more planning. We should have thought more about what we were going to collect to go in the hampers. When we started to put the hampers together, we had too many tins of food and not enough other nice things like chocolate. I should have brought something else instead of tins of soup. Here the candidate has provided relevant and appropriate answers to all parts of the questions.

13. Always read the questions carefully and do what you are asked.