Developing Functional Skills: Festivals and Celebrations
Challenge reference: 2345
Active
Notional learning hours
10
Level
Entry 3
Subject area
Preparing for Adulthood pathway
Vocational area
Learning aim
Learners will develop their functional English and Maths skills in the context of activities about festivals and celebrations.
Learning context
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Learning outcomes
(What the learner needs to know, understand or be able to do)
The learner will:
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. Develop knowledge of numbers relating to festivals and celebrations.
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. Develop knowledge of shapes, time and positional language linked to festivals and celebrations.
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Assessment criteria
(What the learner need to demonstrate in order to meet the learning outcome)
The learner can:
- Read numbers up to 1000 on decorations and festival artefacts in words and figures
- Count food items in groups of two, four, five and 10 linked to organising a celebration
- Read common fractions linked to festival artefacts
- Recognise simple equivalents e.g. ¼ and ¼ is ½
- Design festival decorations using a combination of at least six 2D and 3D shapes identifying those with right angles
- Identify two lines of symmetry on 2D shapes
- Follow directions for a character in a story linked to a festival i.e. follow directions to lead Sita out of the forest/Babushka to the stable using compass directions
- Use a calendar to check dates i.e. how many Mondays until School Christmas lunch?
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Assessment methodology
Assessment methodology
Linked to learning outcome
Observation checklist
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