Functional Skills

English learning is about developing your reading, writing, and speaking and listening skills. Your course will progress through from understanding grammar, punctuation and sentence structure, to building critical-thinking and text-analysis skills.

Maths courses cover a range of mathematical techniques. You’ll start by improving your understanding of numbers, fractions and percentages, and move onto applying your knowledge, measuring shape and space, and handling data in practical situations.

At the beginning of each English or Maths programme, you will need to complete an initial assessment and diagnostic tool, to determine which appropriate level you will be working toward.  On completion of your programme, you will be assessed via exam.

Each programme duration is 20 weeks, with 3 hours allocated each week on a set day. You will also be expected to complete additional practice that will be set by your tutor through Google Classrooms.

Fully funded.

If you are on an apprenticeship, or are due to enrol onto an apprenticeship, you will need to be able to evidence of Maths and English achievement by the end of your apprenticeship.

If you are completing a Level 2 apprenticeship, you have to have achieved a Level 1 in Maths and English.

If you are completing a Level 3 apprenticeship, you have to have achieved a Level 2 in Maths and English.

If you cannot evidence the necessary achievements, you will be given the opportunity to complete your Maths and/or English alongside your apprenticeship.You do not have to do anything, it is all organised by the Apprenticeship Team when you enrol.