Employment skills & Public services

A super presentation full of useful tips for writing your CV, answering the telephone, taking messages, etc. Use in conjunction with Steve’s CV templates (see below).

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
English
Adult Literacy: Speaking & Listening
Adult Literacy: Writing
Context
Employment skills & Public services

CV templates two very useful templates can be used for word processing or as an outline planner/ writing frame.

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
English
Adult Literacy: Writing
ICT
Entry 3 ICT
Level 1 and 2 CLAIT / ECDL
Context
Employment skills & Public services

A complete 2 page lesson plan plus 2 related worksheets and answer sheet – everything you need for a 90 minute session on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing money (also includes finding range and mean). Focuses on real life practical situations of checking till receipts and pay slips.

Level
Level 1
Maths
AN MSS1/L1.1 Add, subtract, multiply & divide sums of money and record
Context
Employment skills & Public services
Retail Hospitality Customer service

An ‘active’ worksheet first used in a Skills for Work class. Ideal for prompting discussion on the importance of good communication skills in the workplace.

Level
Entry Level 2
English
SLc/E2.1
SLd/E2.2
Context
Employment skills & Public services

Fantasy job project is a great way to get student looking at job adverts and discussing what is required by employers. This scaffolded writing task lists points for students to consider before planning A3 job adverts/posters. First used with New Deal students.

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
English
Rt/E3.2
Rt/L1.2
AL Wt/E3.1 Plan & draft writing
Adult Lit Wt/L1.1 Plan and draft writing
Adult Lit Wt/L1.5 Use format and structure for different purposes
Adult Lit Wt/L1.4 Use language suitable for purpose and audience
Context
Employment skills & Public services

Aa cut and stick or matching activity first used with New Deal students (laminate for re-use). Makes a good start up activity or prompt for discussion and form filling practice.

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
English
Form filling
Rw/E3.2
Rw/E2.1
Context
Employment skills & Public services

Darcy v Wickham! A great way to introduce students to estimation and ‘what is reasonable’.

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Maths
AN MSS1/E3.1 Add & subtract money using decimal notation
AN MSS1/L1.1 Add, subtract, multiply & divide sums of money and record
N1/E3.8
N1/L1.9
Context
Employment skills & Public services

26 week Literacy Scheme of Work for E3-L2. An extremely useful and well thought out plan, originally used with New Deal learners and based around the free DfES Skills for Life learning materials.
Printed versions of the learning materials are no longer available but PDF versions are still online:
http://rwp.excellencegateway.org.uk/readwriteplus/Learning_Materials_Ma…
The audio tracks from the DfES learning materials CDs are now available as audio files:

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
English
General literacy / English
Context
Employment skills & Public services
Independent living

26 week Numeracy Scheme of Work for E3-L2. An extremely useful and well thought out plan, originally used with New Deal learners and based around the free DfES Skills for Life numeracy learning materials.
Printed versions of the learning materials are no longer available but PDF versions are still online:
http://rwp.excellencegateway.org.uk/readwriteplus/Learning_Materials_Ma…

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
Maths
General numeracy / maths
Context
Employment skills & Public services
Independent living

Makes a great introduction to form filling and is ideal for group, team or individual work. 56 questions.

Level
Entry Level 3
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 1
English
Rw/E3.2
AL Rw/E1.1 Have limited, meaningful sight vocabulary of words, signs, symbols
Form filling
Context
Independent living
Employment skills & Public services