Portfolio help

System
System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
edited 10:23AM in AAT student discussion
I am at almost a loss to know where to start with my portfolio - I have a few bits and pieces which I have copied from our staff manual which illustrate our cash handling policy, document storage policy, etc. What I would appreciate advice on is how a witness statement could be laid out/used for those items that I don't have any physical evidence for but my boss can say I do in my job and how often I can get away with using this? Thinking about the units 21, etc more for this than units 1-4. Anyone able to offer advice - I do distance learning so hard for me to get advice from the college - tutor is just a little rubbish - so rubbish he has lost one of my unit assessments so I don't have the front sheet to put in my portfolio - I'll be cross if I am expected to do it again as I think the assessments are real pants - not at all like real work environment stuff in my opinion.<BR><BR><BR>

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Portfolio help

    Hi<BR><BR>For my portfolio I had a witness statement for every element in every unit, supplied by my boss. Basically they followed the same format as the aat sheets ie Unit 1 A.... B.... etc etc and they provided a comment on what I did to cover the criteria for that element, they also covered most of the range statements and knowledge & understanding the same way.<BR><BR>For unit 21 we had an assignment to do which covered most of this, I did a health and safety course to cover unit 22, and an appraisal covered most of unit 23, I also added personal statements to cover areas where I only had 1 piece of evidence, and I included a lot of sage based printouts to cover units 1-4 and also 21. Screenprints of word/excel etc came in handy on unit 21, and you will find that the skills tests cover almost every aspect of the unit they refer to. Oh yes I also included my staff hand book, copies of accident report forms etc for unit 23, and got copies of leaflets such as riddor for Health & Safety. Look on the internet for H&S data it surprising what forms etc you can download and include in your portfolio, for Unit 22 I also took photographs of areas at work which breeched H&S laws, and I typed up ways of improving upon them.<BR><BR>College provided Q&A's to fill in any further gaps.<BR><BR>Hope this is of help, don't forget to include a cv and an appendix. I left my page numbering until the end and then filled out newly printed aat sheets, (I scribbled notes on my original ones)<BR><BR>Hope this is of some use, and it's worth remembering that it does take longer than you think to fill in all the paperwork neatly and cross reference it correctly, so the sooner it's done out the way, the sooner you can concentrate on passing the exams!!<BR><BR>All the very best of luck to you.<BR><BR>Tracy
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Portfolio help

    Thank you for the advice Tracy - it is really useful info and far more advice than I was expecting. I feel so cross that the tutor who should oversee my work is so rubbish - he is not at all proactive and when you do make an appointment to go in and see him he is like a wet rag and absolutely no help at all! I am never doing distance learning again, ever!!<BR>
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Portfolio help

    I don't suppose anybody has a copy of a witness statement they would email to me so I can see the sort of contents/layout etc. Any help would be really good for how to go about compiling the portfolio - why am I finding it so hard to do this!!?
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Portfolio help

    oops, an email address before posting the thread would be good idea - jakes@nirvanamail.freeserve.co.uk
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Portfolio help

    Hi<BR><BR>emailed format for witness statement re unit 21 today.<BR><BR>Tracy

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