Pearson Level 1 and below October 2024 newsletter
Hello and welcome to the Pearson Level 1 and below newsletter for October 2024 covering all things below level 2 including Level 1 Intro, Entry Level, BTEC Workskills and BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing.
We hope you have had an enjoyable start to the new term including meeting all your wonderful new students and building relationships with them. We hope all is going well and remember if you need support in anyway you can book in to speak to me or email me via belowlevel2@pearson.com
Online Training Events
We would just like to start by offering a reminder of the two events we have coming up to support your marking/assessment of BTEC Level 1/Entry or Workskills/Personal Growth and Wellbeing Qualifications.
Please feel free to sign up for these free training sessions. They have proved very popular so far so don’t miss out!
The event for BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing in assessing effectively will be on 14 November 3:30-4:30.
Getting Assessment Right: Assessing BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth
The event for BTEC Entry and Level 1 Intro in assessing effectively will be on 6 November 4:00-5:00.
Getting Assessment Right: Assessing BTEC Level 1 Intro qualifications
New Resources
We are pleased to announce we now have available to you an exemplar assignment brief for every available unit across the entire Entry 2 and Entry 1 suite! This means as of now, every Entry Level, Level 1 , Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing Unit has an exemplar assignment brief for you to use and adapt! As usual please feel free to write your own assignment briefs if you prefer.
We hope you find these useful. Please note they are exemplar assignment briefs and not authorised assignment briefs which some of will be familiar with from other qualifications.
Final reminder that our standardisation packs are available for use during the year. These can be found in the Pearson YouTube training channel.
The work to go with these packs can be found in the comments section on the channel. The standardisation packs are available for Entry/Level 1 and Workskills/Personal Growth and Wellbeing.
On Demand Training
We have recently produced some on demand training for our BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing suite to help with planning and assessing your programmes.
Supporting Centres with assessment- BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing (18:37mins)
We hope you enjoy using these videos to develop an effective provision in your centre.
New Content for September on the Skills Channel
Please save our playlist on YouTube for the latest Teaching and Learning Skills Video.
Our latest video is about Providing Effective Praise.
Now you have gotten to know your students more you are going to be looking for more opportunities to provide them with praise right? In this skills video we delve in to what makes effective and ineffective praise so you can use praise to maximise learning outcomes in the classroom.
You can watch the skills video if you are interested on YouTube
Monthly Blog
This month’s blog is all about how you can use our BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing Qualification to meet the Relationship and Sex Education requirements in England.
In this blog we discuss how this programme can be used to ensure full coverage of the RSE requirements and tips for what you can include into your RSE plan to strengthen your provision of this key area.
Meeting RSE requirements in England with BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing
We hope you have enjoyed the first part of term and getting to know your new students.
With best wishes
Kelly Adams
Product Manager, Level 1, Entry Level, BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing