Pearson Level 1 and below January 2025 newsletter
Happy New Year and welcome to the first Pearson Level 1 and below newsletter of the new year covering all things below level 2 including Level 1 Intro, Entry Level, BTEC Workskills and BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing.
We hope you have managed to spend some time doing some things you enjoy and meeting up with family or friends over the holiday season and are ready for what 2025 brings.
Online training events
Thank you to the many teachers who attended our BTEC Workskills/Personal Growth and Wellbeing Training and Level 1 Intro training events last year. We are currently in the process of organising our in person and online events this year. If you have any ideas for training, you would like to see we are open to your suggestions.
Please email us at belowlevel2@pearson.com to let us hear your suggestions. We can’t guarantee we can accommodate your suggestions, but it will help us plan the most appropriate events for our centres.
New resources
We are pleased to let you know we have made the decision to create Entry Level 1 and Entry Level 2 assessment booklets for each unit in our Workskills qualifications as part of our offer to you. These additional optional booklets can be used if you would like a one stop shop for each of the units in these qualifications. It is recommended if you use these booklets to print them on A3 paper so that the learner has enough space to write on them. They also include an optional observation record if you undertake any observations as part of the unit.
You can find the new booklets below:
BTEC WorkSkills Entry Level 1 (2020) course materials
BTEC WorkSkills Entry Level 2 (2020) course materials
We have also due to increased demand introduced a new pick up and teach pack for our Level 2 Workskills Qualification. The pack can be used for either general teaching or for the T-Level transition year in your centre and is full of activities and lesson plans including an assignment brief to support you in your teaching of our Level 2 Workskills. This pack focuses on two Units 13 and 15 and is in addition to our current pick up and teach pack for Level 2 Workskills which focuses on Unit 1 and 17.
You can find the existing and new packs below:
BTEC WorkSkills Level 2 (2021) course materials
The introduction of this pack means you can now if you choose use these packs to complete with learners a BTEC subsidiary award, an award or an extended award in Workskills using this pick up and teach method!
All I want for Christmas is PGW- Recap
In December we hosted the very successful free resource event for our BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing qualifications.
If you are currently teaching these qualifications and missed these events you can find these on our BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing teaching and learning pages.
In addition if you want to find out more about our PSHE qualification that is fully mapped to RSE in England, explore our BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing qualifications.
New content for November on the skills channel
Please save our playlist on YouTube for the latest teaching and learning skills video.
Our latest video is about Webb’s Depth of Knowledge
In this video we delve in to what the DOK framework is and how it can be used to ensure assessment tasks are aligned with the desired learning outcome.
You can watch the skills video if you are intrested on YouTube
Monthly Blog
This month’s blog is about Levelling up your Multiply Programme Using BTEC Workskills. This blog talks through how you can use our BTEC Workskills qualification to enhance your Multiply Programme in your centre, including how to integrate this successfully.
Read Level Up Your Multiply Programme with BTEC Workskills
Wishing you a great start to the new year with your students!
With best wishes
Kelly Adams
Product Manager Level 1 Below Including Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing.
