About Functional Skills

Functional Skills are widely accepted as alternative qualifications to GCSEs.

Favoured by employers as they focus on the ability to problem solve and apply skills to contextualised and real-life situations.

Our interactive learning offers you a tailored study plan that will cater for your needs, whilst following the syllabus from Pearson, our awarding organisation partner.

Our programme gives learners all the required learning to pass a Functional Skills exam in either maths, English or both.

Development of skills in English will be supported with modules on reading and comprehension techniques, writing composition and spelling/grammar plus skills in speaking, listening and communication.

Development of skills in maths would include working with numbers, measure and space, and skills in handling data. Giving learners all the required learning to pass a Functional Skills exam in either maths, English or both.

We use two online portals to assist in the teaching and learning of maths and English:

• Skills Builder: An assessment and diagnostic tool which can also provide 24-hour maths and English access to online learning modules.
• Moodle: Our virtual learning environment which has been designed by our Functional Skills team to contextualise and present all topics with innovative ways to prepare you for the examination

Online learning is supported with tutor support online via MS teams that will help learners overcome any challenges as well as help them to progress with your studies.

Our offer supports learners to progress one level in Functional Skills based on their previous qualification and assessments completed.

How we get you there

We take the planning stage by using your diagnostic assessment we plan a way through the syllabus that focusses on your skills gaps whilst strengthening skills with which you are already familiar.

Your learning will be guided by using your Individual Skills Plan, together with your course tutor to make sense of what needs to be learned, taking your learning preferences into account.

Equivalences for Functional skills: