You already know what competencies are. Today is about the part employers actually read: the evidence. A competency-based form does not ask whether you are organised. It asks you to prove it with a moment that happened.

Today you will bank three short pieces of writing you can drop straight into applications. Each one sets out a single occasion in four lines, and you will meet the four lines and what to call them in a moment. Every one has to come from school, community, or work experience you really had, not a polished story that could be anyone's.

These three terms lock the standard for today's bank. Read them once, then keep them open while you write.

The class writes one STAR response together first, so the shape is agreed out loud. The list-builder below carries that shared build, a line at a time, and it takes about seven minutes. After that you write three of your own for your Digital Portfolio.

Your three triplets (aim for about 20 minutes of writing). Create or open a document called Competency Evidence Bank in your Strand 2.2 folder (Google Doc, Word file, or your school's portfolio format is fine). Set it up with three headings, one per competency you choose. Under each heading write Situation / Task / Action / Result as four short labelled blocks.

Choose three competencies you are genuinely strong in. You can reuse ones from your Strand 1.1 Strong Skills Evidence work, or from any list of competencies you pulled out of adverts earlier, if you have them. For each competency write a full STAR triplet:

• Label the triplet with the competency it proves (e.g. Teamwork, Reliability, Problem-solving)
• Situation: when and where (one or two sentences)
• Task: what you were responsible for
• Action: what you did, step by step, using "I"
• Result: what changed, with something a reader could check if they asked (a number, a delivery, a decision someone else made, or a problem that stopped)

Draw the three examples from different parts of your life where you can: one from school or a subject, one from community, volunteering or a club, and one from part-time work, work experience or a home responsibility that genuinely stretched you. If you do not yet have paid work, a real voluntary or family responsibility still counts when the detail is honest.

Minimum for class time: get three full drafts down. Polish the weakest Result if time allows. If only two are solid by the end of the period, finish the third as a short homework add to the same bank before next lesson.

Pair check (about 5 minutes). Swap one Result line with the person beside you. Your partner says whether they can picture the outcome. Rewrite if they cannot.

This bank is not a one-off exercise: you will pull from it when you complete competency-based forms and interview answers later in the unit, and the triplets sit in your Digital Portfolio as assets for the Portfolio in Action AAC.

Talk these through with the person beside you, then decide whether any line in your bank needs a rewrite before you rely on it in an application.

• Pick the weakest Result line in your three triplets. What single checkable fact would harden it: a number, a time saved, a decision someone else made, or a problem that stopped?
• If you still have your Strand 1.1 Strong Skills Evidence open, which of today's three STAR triplets is stronger than what you wrote then, and what did STAR force you to add?

If you want a short portfolio note later, add two lines under your triplets naming which competency you would lead with for a part-time job versus an apprenticeship or course application, and why the lead changes.

Today you applied competency thinking to application-ready evidence.

• You used STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) as a shared writing shape
• You separated claims from competency evidence drawn from real occasions
• You banked three authentic, competency-labelled STAR triplets in your Competency Evidence Bank (Strand 2.2)
• You checked Result lines for something a shortlister could actually picture
• You linked the bank back to earlier strong-skills work so it is ready for competency forms, interviews, and your Portfolio in Action AAC

Optional stretch: rewrite one triplet twice for two audiences (a local part-time role and a more formal apprenticeship or higher-education-linked course application) and note the three words you changed for each reader.