Life & Living Skills Entry Level

Information about levels of qualifications

GCSEs at grades 4-9 are 'Level 2 qualifications'.

GCSEs at grades 1-3 are 'Level 1 qualifications'.

Entry level qualifications such as life and living skills are aimed at students who are not yet ready for GCSEs and find accessing GCSE- level materials more challenging. Within entry level qualifications students may achieve 'Entry Level 1', 'Entry Level 2' and 'Entry Level 3' - all of these are entry level (not yet level 1) qualifications.

There are other types of qualifications, including music exams, which are level 2, level 1 or entry level qualifications.

For more details, please see: https://www.gov.uk/what-different-qualification-levels-mean/list-of-qualification-levels

 

OCR Life and Living Skills - ENTRY LEVEL

The OCR Life and Living Skills suite of Entry Level qualifications provide learners with high quality, nationally recognised qualifications. They are credit-based qualifications that provide valuable opportunities for individuals to develop skills, gain underpinning knowledge and understanding and offers opportunities for learners to progress to higher level units in the suite or to achieve units at the same level, where progression to a higher level is not possible.

There are a range of units worth 2 credits and upwards. We normally enter students for Entry Level 3 qualifications. To gain this, it is not necessary for all units submitted to be level 3, but a mixture. This allows us to capitalise on the strengths of our students. Students will have two lessons per week.

There is no formal deadline so units are taken from year 9 onwards and certificates can be applied for at any time. The more credits achieved, the higher the certificate achievement level.

  • Entry Level (level 3)
  • Introductory Award (10169), Award (10170), Certificate (10171),
  • Extended Certificate (10183), Diploma (10172)

The following are the range of units offered. Each heading is broken down further into short focused units which can be selected as appropriate, by staff and students. At St Bede’s, we try to cover a range of units and select those which students will find most useful and enjoyable. A summary of activities are provided below:

 

  • Arts and Crafts – designing, planning, making, displaying
  • Communication – reading, writing and verbal English
  • Environment and Community – community activities
  • Home Management – household cleaning, shopping, cooking, food safety
  • Horticulture – gardening and planning planting schemes
  • ICT – using ICT in a variety of ways
  • Manufacturing – making items
  • Media – writing, producing, editing, recording material for a media product
  • Motor Vehicles – basic vehicle maintenance and safety checks, highway code
  • Numeracy – time, money, charts, measurements, whole numbers set in every day contexts – practical numeracy
  • Office Practice – working in business, using office equipment
  • Personal skills – developing self, problem solving, rights and responsibilities, managing money, problem solving etc.
  • Study skills – application forms, interview techniques, revision strategies
  • World of work – getting ready for work, working codes of practice

 

For more details please contact:

Mrs J Emmans, Head of Faculty for Expressive Arts & Technology: jemmans@stbedes.cambs.sch.uk

Miss M Hope, Head of Food & Nutrition: mhope@stbedes.cambs.sch.uk