Pearson Level 1 and below March 2025 newsletter
Hi and welcome to the Spring edition of the below level 2 including Level 1 Intro, Entry Level, BTEC Workskills and BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing.
Hoping you had a lovely half term and are ready for warmer times and daffodils!
Training Events
We have three events currently planned. Two of these are for our BTEC Level 1 and Entry Suite and one is for BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing. You can register in advance for these events
The first event is called BTEC L1 and Below Best Practice Open Forum: Ask your Senior Standards Verifier. Join us for this Best Practice Open Forum session on September 17, 2025 from 4pm to 5pm.
This interactive forum is designed for Level 1 and Entry Level Teachers to discover best practices, ask questions, and gain insights into effective teaching strategies.
Katie Ordonez will kick off the session with a 10-minute presentation on good practices, followed by a Q&A segment where you can ask your questions directly.
Register for the Best Practice Open Forum
Our second event is on November 12, 2025 from 4pm to 5pm and is called Getting Assessment Right: Assessing BTEC Level 1 Intro qualifications effectively in your classroom
In this event the live session will take you through:
- Methods of meeting the criteria- Ways in which learner work could be evidenced
- How to assess work- How to assess the BTEC Level 1 Introductory qualifications effectively
- Opportunity for questions- Opportunity to ask the trainer SSV Katie Ordonez about any assessment or assessment evidence questions you might have.
This training event provides an opportunity to learn more about how to assess learner work accurately on the full suite of BTEC Level 1 Introductory qualifications.
Register for Assessing BTEC Level 1 Intro qualifications effectively
Finally our third event is on November 6, 2025 from 3.30pm to 4.30pm and is called Getting Assessment Right: Assessing BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing effectively in your classroom.
This live session will take you through:
- Methods of meeting the criteria
- Ways in which learner work could be evidenced
- How to assess work- How to assess both on the BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing qualifications effectively
- Opportunity for questions- ask the trainer SSV Paul Cliff about any assessment or assessment evidence questions you might have.
This event provides an opportunity to learn more about how to assess learner work accurately on both the BTEC Workskills and BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing qualifications.
Register for Assessing BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing effectively
Please register for any or all of our free training events and we look forward to seeing you at the events!
New resources
We are pleased to let you know we have produced some new resources for teaching our Level 1 Introductory in IT.
Discover the activites for Level 1 Introductory in IT
In response to lots of queries from the Post 16 space we have also put out a video explaining how you can use our BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing qualifications in your T Level Foundation Year study programme. Watch the video to find out more.
These qualifications are proving to be very popular with FE Colleges and Sixth Form colleges who are currently delivering these programmes, so we do recommend if you have this programme that you check out our resources as well.
Explore BTEC Workskills T Level Foundation Year resources
Explore BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing T Level Foundation Year resources
New content for March on the skills channel
Please save our playlist on YouTube for the latest teaching and learning skills video.
Our latest video is about Top-Down Bottom Up Processing
In this video we delve into top-down and bottom-up processing, their interplay, and how these approaches shape perception using real-world examples.
You can watch the skills video if you are intrested on YouTube
Bottom Up Top Down Approach to Thinking (6:13mins)
Monthly Blog
This month’s blog is about Making BTEC Level 1 Intro Classroom’s Practical. This blog provides strategies to make BTEC Level 1 Intro classrooms more practical through real-world projects, hands-on activities, and technology integration
Podcast- Take a Listen
March offering on the podcast is about unlocking opportunities for ESOL learners with BTEC Workskills. In this episode we dive into how you can utilize our BTEC Workskills programme to gain maximum learning for your ESOL students.
Wishing you a successful run up to Easter!
With best wishes
Kelly Adams
Product Manager Level 1 Below Including Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing.
