Update on Personal Development Plan

Personal Development plan review

Name:  Jack Bosworth 

Date:    17-02-2011

Academic Qualifications

Same as Before!

Currently Taking;

ICT Practitioners Level 3 BTEC

Art and Design Level 2 BTEC

Notes:

My BTEC courses are going well I am achieving Merits and Distinctions in my Art and Design BTEC course.  I am on top of all my coursework currently and achieving merits, if I have time at the end I will attempt the distinction work to achieve the maximum grade possible. I am hoping next year to take a Graphics course or a Fine Art course so I am able to design or draw to very fine detail as I am currently quite good at drawing. My job is going well at John Lewis as my contract runs out in April but hoping it will be renewed so I will be there with a full contract part-time.

Skills and attributes (score: 1 = no skill, 5 = fully developed)

Skill	Score	Development activity	Target
Understand and get very good at Spreadsheets i.e. formulae	2	I will be doing spreadsheets with Steph during lessons to complete the Unit	On Going
Become and better artist	3	This will happen during my Art and Design lessons.	Ongoing
Programming	3	Develop basic skills in programming	On Going
Time Management	3	Keep to deadlines on all coursework	On Going

New targets:

Target	By when
Keep All Coursework up to date.	End of College Year
Save up money for Silverstone Grand Prix in July	On Going
Learn to Drive when I turn 17 and save enough money to afford all of my lessons and a car with insurance.	2nd July 2011 Onwards
Achieve merits and distinctions in ICT and Art and Design	End of College Year.

Notes:

I am working hard to achieve all of my skills and targets so that I will have good grades at the end of my first year at college ready for my second year of ICT Level 3 course. Hopefully I will be able to save up the money I need for Silverstone and my ca\r and insurance when I turn 17.

Pizza Presentation

We had to design a prototype pizza delivery system, in groups of no more than 3, which then we had to present to the class our ideas and prototype in a presentation.
The group was only two people Jack and Steve, to begin with we had to draw rough ideas onto a A4 piece of paper and find the information and design we wanted with all the presets and delivery information, then we went on to copying it onto a A1 piece of paper and present.
Once we had presented out design and information we then had to ask answer questions givin to us about our ideas and what we could change about the design and information also adding bits in that we missed to reach Kates expectations for the delivery prototype.
Firsty we sat through two presentations first to see what other people had done and ask them questions, then tell them if their missing any requirements with there designs and then give them help on how to change it to make it fit.
I believe our presentation went well, we both talked about our ideas at certain stages, we did not have to answer many questions as we throught though our design very well as we had already asked kate what she needed.
The leadership of the group wasnt there we all helped eachother and worked as a good team on deciding ideas and presentation which worked well as we both had good ideas to add during the build of the prototype. I believe we worked really well and quickly to produce a good prototype.

Personal Development plan review

Name:  Jack Bosworth

Date:    13/12/10

Academic Qualifications

 Same as previous

Notes:

During the academic year I have so far achieved a Distinction in Art & Design and achieving a Merit in IT. I have kept up with 100% attendance and always giving in coursework before deadlines a due to make sure I receive feedback to be able to upgrade my work in time and do not get behind in any coursework.

Skills and attributes (score: 1 = no skill, 5 = fully developed)

Skill	Score	Development activity	Target
Technical Report	1	No change as haven’t completed yet!	Feb 2011
Team Player	5	Fairthorne was a great day over all my team got voted for the most team players by our instructor. We worked together on all activities the best we could.	Completed
Programming	3	My skill in programming is gradually getting bet and becoming fast at typing in code and basic knowledge of the code.	On Going
Time Management	5	Through starting college I have been able to keep up-to-date will all my coursework.	On Going

New targets:

Target	By when
Keep All Coursework up to date.	End of College Year
Achieve a Merit in my Courses	On Going
Keep PDP up to date	On Going

Notes:

I have recently got a job at John Lewis in November and have been working there now for 3 weeks working in the café on Saturdays and Sundays and any overtime possible.

Toby From IBM

Today we had Toby in from IBM he was a computer programmer. He has been at IBM for over 9 years and programming was all he wanted to do with. He was at college and studied computer then went to university for 4 years as he did not know what he wanted to do. Then while he was at Uni he had a year out and worked at Barclay's then went back to complete his final year. After finishing his final year he need work and phone Barclay's back up for a job after working at Barclay's for 7 years experiencing working abroad then decided to move on he went to IBM and began his career there.

He then spoke to us about how it was working at IBM and how much he had changed and finally got the do the programming he wanted to always do.

After seeing what he done it sounded good fun and an amazing experience to see, after hearing all this it has opened my eyes to all the possibilities out there.

After sitting through the talk i found it very interesting and now thinking about Uni as i was before but maybe into programming instead as i found in interesting to see what he has done. I would be interested in a summer placement at IBM because it will be a great experience for me to see if this is what i want to go into.

Fairthorne Manor

On the 8th October, we went to Fairthorne Manor for a team building for IT. This was to help us with our communication skills assignment.

The day went well and was a great experience, but most of all it was a load of fun working in teams.We first had to make 3 teams of 10. For our first activity we done the low ropes, this was a good obsticle course as it made us think as a team to work our way throught the obsticle course. This was very fun laugh at eachother as we all fell off at one point or another. The funniest moment was the leap of faith were you had to grab hold of the rope and get over the pond of muddy water only some of us fell in.
Our second activity was jacobs ladder and the crates, jacobs ladder was good fun very hard work as a team of 3 getting up the top as everyone got higher up the gaps between the logs got bigger and bigger. The crates was also very goot the higher we got was 11 crates underneath us but after 7 crates it become harder to were it wasnt stable anymore.
Finally we got to raft building we had 30 minutes to build a raft out of materials provided, after we had built our raft it was time to put it to the test after we got it in the water all of our team got on and we were floating but after the instructor told us to stand up then it was went wrong people started falling off and then the raft was destroyed.
After we were getting out our teacher steph was laughing at us because we were wet and cold so 5 of us picked her up and pulled her into the water she wasnt pleased :) Overall the day was good fun and will do it agian.


Interpersonal Skills i used during the day.

·         Team work - We had to work as a team through out the day with the 3 different activitys we took part in. Within the team I had to co operate and help people through certain parts

·         Listen to other people - I had to listen to other peoples ideas in the team, We all had to make sure everyone new what they were doing and so that everybody could say what they thought

·         Appropriate humour - We all used humour during the day through our team, I took the mick out of each others and joked around while doing to make the day more endurable when everyone else is doing it as well.

·         Leadership - The leaders in the team were Me, Steve, Will, Kirby, David the rest worked well as we all have good ideas for raft building and low ropes

·         Co operation - I used co operation skill during the raft building activity and low ropes. We had to co operate with each other while building the raft to make it a team built and with more ideas gave us a better raft, also in the low rope i used co operation because we had to talk to eachother to help us all get across and through the course of low ropes.

Personal Development plan review

Name:  Jack Bosworth 

Date:    30/09/10

Academic Qualifications

GCSE – Business Studies (A)

GCSE- Business Studies (A)

GCSE- ICT (B)

GCSE- ICT (B)

GCSE – Art (C)

GCSE- Maths (C)

GCSE- English (D)

GCSE- English Lit (C)

GCSE- Science (D)

GCSE- Science (D)

GCSE- R.E (E)

Notes:

I am hoping to achieve a Merit in both of my courses (IT and Art and Design) that I chose at Itchen this year. I believe to achieve these grades I need good attendance, very motivated and always keep to deadlines for immediate feedback. I would hopefully after 3 years be able to go to University or go to into a job that involves computers or technology base.

Skills and attributes (score: 1 = no skill, 5 = fully developed)

Skill	Score	Development activity	Target
Technical Report	1	Design a technical user guided	Feb 2011
Team Player	3	Fairthorne Manor	Oct 2010
Programming	2	Develop basic skills in programming	On Going
Time Management	3	Keep to deadlines on all coursework	On Going

New targets:

Target	By when
Keep All Coursework up to date.	End of College Year
Get fit	On Going
Keep PDP up to date	On Going