How do I use the packs and my samples?

The materials provide valuable additional resources to complement and extend your existing teaching and Key Skills sessions. Activities can be taken in isolation and fit into your lesson plans to achieve learners’ underpinning knowledge and portfolio evidence - or could even form a framework for your lesson plans!

So think about Key Skills sessions, linking to vocational qualifications or adapting the activities to support Functional Skills!

Health & Social care (adult)

People who have physical or psychological problems often need help coping with the day-to-day activities that many of us take for granted. We will walk through a host of important topics within this environment including business basics, care planning, organising events, health and safety considerations and industry issues.

Employers are also looking for much more, such as communication skills, decision-making skills, and how to manage yourself so we provide the tools for all of these too!

Learners create their own hypothetical scenarios which help them complete topical industry activities and are set in a context that will enthuse and excite them. They are also mapped and complement the mandatory NVQ units.

Here a few example activities and some of the occupational units they are linked to: