The Real Game Series
The Real Game
For Years 8 & 9
The Real Game delivers personal development and can be used across PSHE, Citizenship and CEG. The outcomes contribute to students learning portfolios. It can be used for subject areas, at careers events and enrichment programmes and also cross curricular where timetable allocation is limited. The game supports the transition from KS3 to KS4.
The game is designed to:
- Promote effective learning in the areas of careers, citizenship and PSHE;
- Provide opportunities for links to other curriculum areas;
- Provide links between the school and the wider community; and
- Illustrate the importance of adaptability and introduce the concept of transferable skills.
The Real Game is web based and can be delivered with teachers accessing in class presentational material on or offline in a traditional classroom or IT suite using an interactive whiteboard or PC and projector. Slides can be created for OHP use. A CD is provided for off-line use or in an emergency should the internet connection be interrupted.
Students can access interactive worksheets via an individual PC in school or at home. Alternatively teachers can print or purchase handouts for students. All preparation is online, providing teachers with the opportunity to localise the game.
In the Real Game, students role-play as single adults in occupational roles. They see how schoolwork relates to occupational choices and therefore to lifestyle and income. Within their job-role, students have the opportunity to explore adult realities, such as budgeting (taxes, mortgage or rent, other bills and transport), work life balance, different work and family roles and career making decisions.
The job profiles included in the game reflect a broad range of employment opportunities and demonstrate that not all jobs are created equally and in the real world some people are stuck in jobs they do not like. Students learn that if they plan ahead and make the most of their school years they may avoid this eventuality. By the end of the Real Game, students realise that satisfaction in work is a priority issue in life and that it is an outcome that they can achieve by making the choices that are right for them.
New in Summer 2008
The Real Game Offline, enjoy the benefits of the digitised version but played in a traditional classroom setting. This Key Stage 3 teaching resource has everything you need to get started with detailed, adaptable lesson plans, photocopiable worksheets and a CD of in-class presentations, including 4 team games.
Real Game can be purchased in two ways:
As a site licence which enables the game to be played online with students using interactive worksheets or off-line with printed worksheets. This resource is updated each year.
As a stand alone product. The Real Game Off-line can be purchased for a one-off fee. The pack will not be updated and comprises adaptable lesson plans with suggestions on delivery, photocopiable worksheets and a CD of in-class presentations, including four classroom-based team games.
Products available:
- The Real Game online licence (£150 for 1 year or £350 for 3 years)
- The Real Game Off-line (£250 introductory offer, £295 normal price)
- Student Worksheet Pad of colourful printed handouts (£1.75 per pad, 1 pad per student)
- Job Roles Pad of all 58 job roles (£15 per pad, 1 pad required per class)
- Student folder; a colourful way of keeping a student's work together (£1 each)
- Real Game Information Sheet (pdf)
- Real Game Flowchart (pdf)
