Developing Functional Skills: Festivals and Celebrations

Challenge reference: 2345

Notional learning hours  10
Level Entry 3
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, time 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 up to 1000 on decorations and festival artefacts in words and figures
    • Count food items in groups of two, four, five and 10 linked to organising a celebration
    • Read common fractions linked to festival artefacts
    • Recognise simple equivalents e.g. ¼ and ¼ is ½ 
    • Design festival decorations using a combination of at least six 2D and 3D shapes identifying those with right angles
    • Identify two lines of symmetry on 2D shapes
    • Follow directions for a character in a story linked to a festival i.e. follow directions to lead Sita out of the forest/Babushka to the stable using compass directions
    • Use a calendar to check dates i.e. how many Mondays until School Christmas lunch?
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