Guroo functional skills newsletter
Posted on | December 6, 2009 |
Our bi-weekly look at the world of functional skills.
Ofsted criticise school for not teaching in Diploma context, more unintended consequences, a summary of every Functional Skills mention in the Ofsted 08/09 report, another chance to get Guroo resources and a simplified QCDA diagram about 14-19.
Ofsted criticise schools for not teaching functional skills in Diploma context? Taken from the Ofsted Implementation of 14-19 reforms. “14-19 partnerships and Diploma consortia should coordinate their approaches to functional skills, and link this work more closely to the principal learning in Diploma courses”. Please let us know your experience of Ofsted comments by emailing jwells@guroo.co.uk We think this is really important - and a contradiction of all previous guidance on functional skills and what constitutes ‘mastery’, so whatever you experience, please let us know. We’ll report back the collective views of everyone.
More thoughts about unintended consequences. In the last newsletter we reported the potential demise of some popular GNVQ, BTEC and OCR qualifications that overlapped with Diplomas. It caused quite a stir but it does appear to be absolutely true and part of the 14-19 reform programme. This week we heard from our friends at a major awarding body who say Colleges are looking forward to a significant improvement in Diploma pass rates!
Why? If a student fails just element of a Diploma, then no award is given until the final element is successfully completed. So fail to complete PLTS, or miss out on a pass in any of the three Functional Skills, re-sit a few months later at FE College and that College collects the whole credit for the Diploma pass!
Ofsted comments about Functional Skills. We’ve been through the Ofsted report in detail and picked out all the references to functional skills. The general picture seems to be that students like the practical nature of functional skills but they are quite hard to teach and integrate. We’ve summarised all comments here.
Christmas gifts from Guroo. We’ve had a great 2009 at Guroo, so we’d like to finish the year on a high note with Xmas pressies for all! We’ve just given a free 3-month subscription extension to all our existing customers, and if you order in December you can save £999 on a 2-year school subscription PLUS get 3 free extra months on every subscription ordered this month. Click here for our very festive order form. Also, if you’d like any of our freely available resources from the list below, just email jwells@guroo.co.uk or go to www.guroo.info/contact-us saying what you’d like. Select from:
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Laminated “Bluffers Guide to Functional Skills” - the number 1 resource on TES Connect for functional skills
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Functional Skills standards mapping posters from Guroo in pdf format
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Interactive CD including sample resources
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On-site visit by one the guroo guys and girls
The official line. The last couple of weeks have seen a newsletter from DCSF 14-19 team, the LSIS November newsletter, a speech by Ed Balls at the SSAT conference and congratulations to Bradford College who won the OCR award for functional skills at AoC.
New QCDA 14-19 diagram. We noticed this new, simplified diagram on the QCDA website.
Jonathan’s Functional Skills blog - 157 entries and counting……. 
Click here for the new website for functional skills support from National Strategies and LSIS
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