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Lifeskills Challenge

Developing Functional Skills: Festivals and Celebrations

Challenge reference: 2339

Notional learning hours  10
Level Entry 2
Subject area
Preparing for Adulthood pathway
Skill
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:

  1. Develop knowledge of numbers relating to festivals and celebrations. 

  2. Develop knowledge of shapes, dates 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 to 99 on decorations, festival artefacts in words and figures
    • Count food items in groups of two and 10 linked to organising a celebration
    • Solve simple number/money problems using addition + and subtraction -
    • Use words half and quarter linked to foods and artefacts
    • Read signs ½ and ¼
    • Design festival decorations using at least three 2D and three 3D shapes
    • Draw and name the shapes and their properties
    • Write directions for a character in a story linked to a festival i.e. direct Sita out of the forest/Babushka to the stable
    • Mark dates on a calendar linked to key festivals
    • Sequence the months of the year identifying  key festivals linked to each month

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