You are in the reflecting phase of the cycle today. Most of you already have real material from this strand: placement or shadowing days, a workplace interview, earlier jobs or volunteering, and feedback you gathered. You already wrote those up separately. Today you pull what you have into one integrated reflection (aiming for 500 to 800 words when finished) that only you could have written, because only you lived those sources.

If one source is still missing (for example the interview write-up is pending, feedback is thin, or you have little prior work), write from what you have today and name the gap in one honest line in the draft. A saved first draft in your Strand 2.2 folder is the success condition for this period; you can finish the full word count before next class if needed.

Three terms you will use while you write. Read the table, then keep it open beside you during the main step.

First, annotate Cian's sample reflection. Label each highlighted stretch as placement evidence, interview insight, prior work, feedback used, or an unsupported claim. When the class is ready, reveal the model and notice where you differed, especially the unsupported lines, which sound confident and prove nothing.

Then open your Integrated Workplace Reflection document (Strand 2.2/Integrated Workplace Reflection) in your Digital Portfolio Strand 2.2 folder and write a substantial first draft. Aim for 300+ words in class with all four sources at least named; finish toward 500–800 words before next class if you need the extra time. Draw on all four sources where you have them:

• your placement or work-shadowing days
• your workplace interview
• prior part-time, voluntary or other work
• feedback you received

Use one framework all the way through. Quick reminder: STAR means Situation, Task, Action, Result; What / So-What / Now-What means what happened, why it mattered, and what you do next. Pick one and stick to it.

Hold your writing against the Pre-Placement Expectations note in your Strand 2.2 folder (from the pre-placement lesson): what you expected to learn, what you were nervous about, and what you wanted to leave with. Say plainly where reality matched, where it surprised you, and what you will do differently next.

A saved draft today is the success condition, not a polished final cut in twenty-five minutes of writing. This Integrated Workplace Reflection is Digital Portfolio evidence you will reuse later as raw material for ALT 4 and Portfolio in Action. Keep the filename and folder consistent so a future employer, course tutor, or admissions reader could open it cold.

A reader outside this room should finish the page knowing what you did, what it showed, and what changed.

Talk these through with the person beside you, or sit with them quietly. Work from whatever draft is on your screen. If a line is worth keeping, add it to your Integrated Workplace Reflection or to a short note underneath it in the same document.

• Open the Pre-Placement Expectations note in your Strand 2.2 folder. Which of the three things you expected to learn actually arrived, and which one never showed up?
• Where did feedback from someone else disagree with the story you were telling yourself about the placement, and which version are you trusting in the draft you just wrote?

Optional stretch if your draft already names all four sources and you have spare minutes.

Write a 60-second spoken version of the same reflection: three sentences you could say on a real interview panel if someone asked, What did work experience teach you about yourself? Say it aloud once. Cut anything you stumbled on. Save the spoken version under your reflection as a short closing paragraph labelled Spoken take.