Hairdressing & Beauty therapy
Numeracy: Functional Maths, MSS1/E2.1, MSS1/E3.1, MSS1/L1.1
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
A contextualised set of Functional Maths tasks for Hairdressing or Beauty students.
Includes:
- Counting up money and making up floats
- Adding up prices and working out change
- Extracting information from a table
An alternative version of this worksheet is also available (Handling cash in a garage).
Both worksheets are linked to the “Working with Decimals” lesson plan and PPT by Charlotte Gustar (listed under See also below).
Numeracy: Functional Maths - number, N2/E3.3, N2/E3.5, N2/L1.6
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy, Motor vehicles & Transport, Retail Hospitality Customer service
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Assessment material, Informative presentation, Lesson plan
A detailed lesson plan accompanied by a PPT and a lesson objective checker sheet. The lesson recaps place value and introduces students to decimals and using money in practical situations.
The PPT is an adaptation two other PPT resources I have used on skillsworkshop: ‘Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100’ by Elaine Baskerville, and ‘Pounds to pence’ by Jennifer Williamson. Two contextualised worksheets (Salon and Garage), written by Carrie Bray, are also linked to the lesson plan.
Literacy: Functional English - reading, Reading: text focus (comprehension)
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Reading comprehension
A reading exercise that practises reading instructions in the context of hair and beauty. A real life text accompanied by questions to assess reading in detail, responding to a text, purpose of text, and commenting on how meaning is conveyed.
Ideal for, and fully mapped to, L1-2 Functional English.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - data handling, Functional Maths - measures, shape, money, HD1/E2.1, MSS1/E2.4, HD1/E3.1, MSS1/E3.3
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
A set of exercises to practise timings in a salon. Ideal for, and fully mapped to, embedding Entry Level Functional Maths.
Literacy: Speaking & Listening, Functional English - speaking, listening & communication, Functional English - writing
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Discussion points, Worksheet or assignment, Writing prompts
This is a worksheet that can be used for discussion and /or writing. The learners can discuss the advice they would give and then practice writing it down in full sentences using correct selling and punctuation. It also helps them to start thinking about being tactful!
Ideal for, and fully mapped to, Functional English writing and discussion.
Literacy: Recognise and understand a range of words
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy
Level: E2, E3, L1
Resource type: Handout or guide
Handy 2 page handout. Page 1 explains nouns, verbs and adjectives – with vocational examples. Page three includes a table for collecting and classifying relevant vocabulary (could also be used as a spelling list).
Literacy: Functional English - reading, Rw/E2.4, Rw/E3.4
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Straightforward but useful resource where a list of clients’ names must be listed alphabetically.
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy
Resource type: Hands-on / practical activity, Worksheet or assignment
Level: E2, E3
Useful hands-on activity sheet for new hairdressing students.Involves choosing a suitable unit of measure, estimating and accurate measuring.
Numeracy: Functional Maths, General numeracy / maths
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Lovely set of mixed problems – ideal for revision or homework. Grouped into four main topics: costing equipment (1 page), addition and subtraction (2 pages), perimeter and area (2 pages), and multiplication and division (2 pages) but many other skills are covered. With answer sheet, detailed Functional Maths mapping and tips.
Numeracy: Functional Maths, N1/E2.3, HD1/E2.1, MSS1/E2.2, HD1/E3.1, MSS1/E3.3
Context: Hairdressing & Beauty therapy
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
A Functional Maths project for Entry 2/3 students. It requires students to read and interpret information from a hair salon appointment book. To use add, subtract and multiply; calculate stock and cost of services. Students must use the given appointment book throughout the whole project as well as show their working out and check their answers. It is a good introduction to the Functional Skills requirements of using all the information given rather than treating each question as a separate entity.
