AIM Qualifications Level 3 Extended Award in Skills for Employment and Further Learning

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the social diversity of citizens in the local community and the UK
• Understand the importance of active participation in the local community

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the social diversity of citizens in the local community
• Know the importance of active participation in the local community

What you'll be able to do

• Understand that organisations need to respond to change
• Understand that organisations need individuals to take initiative

What you'll be able to do

• Understand attitudes to ageing from an individual and societal perspective
• Know the basic elements of the ageing process
• Know about health issues related with the ageing process
• Understand the roles and functions of agencies working with older people

What you'll be able to do

• Know about differences in unit strengths
• Know about the effects that alcohol use may have on others
• Understand the health issues associated with alcohol misuse
• Know about agencies offering help and information on alcohol misuse

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the economics of the market
• Understand the relationship between the type of ownership and the size of an operation
• Understand the effects of non price factors in business

What you'll be able to do

• Know about aromatherapy
• Know about health and safety requirements for aromatherapy
• Understand the principles of aromatherapy
• Prepare for aromatherapy treatment
• Carry out massage techniques using aromatherapy oils

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the terminology and concepts employed by colour
• Know about the elements of the colour spectrum
• Know about the relevance of colour in different historical periods
• Know about the psychological associations linked to colour
• Know about the spatial impact of colour
• Recognise the psychological associations linked to colour

What you'll be able to do

• Make decisions and choices about them self
• Demonstrate that they know about the rights and responsibilities of self and others
• Use negotiation skills to achieve desired outcomes
• Know about the implications and benefits of assertiveness

What you'll be able to do

• Identify individual’s needs
• Provide information which meets the requirements of the individual
• Resolve individual’s issues and concerns
• Comply with organisational standard operating procedures, policies and procedures service
• Work within the limitations of the job role

What you'll be able to do

• Understand atomic structure
• Understand atomic bonding
• Understand the nature of elements, compounds and mixtures
• Know about the periodic table

What you'll be able to do

• Know about health and safety
• Record sound
• Develop production ideas
• Know about professional working methods
• Reflect on own work

What you'll be able to do

• Use audio hardware and software to capture sequences
• Use audio software tools and techniques to combine and edit sequences
• Play and present audio sequences

What you'll be able to do

• Know about barriers that prevent equal access to health care in Britain

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the use of canine grooming tools and equipment
• Bathe dogs
• Handle and control dogs in a grooming establishment

What you'll be able to do

• Know the kinds of behaviours that can hinder a trusting and supportive atmosphere
• Understand how being labelled may impact on behaviour
• Understand the concept of habitual behaviours
• Know how past events may influence the development of habitual behaviours
• Know about the concept of core beliefs
• Understand the concept of choice over habitual behaviours

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how images of women and men are portrayed through daily media
• Understand how the media influences own body image
• Understand how images of women or men have been portrayed through history
• Understand how images of women or men are portrayed through different cultures

What you'll be able to do

• Know about support networks
• Maintain relationships within a support network
• Know about own support network
• Know about own support network

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how own personal qualities, skills, abilities, experience and knowledge and can contribute to future opportunities and goals
• Understand how different types of information can be used to evidence own personal qualities, skills, abilities experience and knowledge
• Understand how a portfolio of information can be used to evidence own personal qualities, skills, abilities experience and knowledge
• Understand what needs to be included in a Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Evaluate progress towards personal goals

What you'll be able to do

• Know about own skills, abilities, experience, knowledge and personal qualities
• Build a portfolio of information to evidence achievements and qualities
• Produce a Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Plan to achieve personal goals

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the sources of finance available to a business
• Understand financial capital investment appraisal
• Apply cost-benefit analysis to investment decisions

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the main causes of economic growth, inflation and unemployment
• Understand the effects that changes in the economy may have on business

What you'll be able to do

• Read, write and order numbers
• Manipulate numbers
• Use fractions
• Use percentages
• Identify equivalences between common fractions, decimals and percentages
• Calculate ratio and direct proportion
• Evaluate expressions in given formulae to produce results
• Evaluate expressions in given formulae to produce results
• Use different strategies to check answers

What you'll be able to do

• Know how formulae are used in calculations. (N2.2)
• Use formulae in practical situations. (N2.1) (N2.2)
• Apply the results of calculations using measurements. (N2.3)

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how personal attributes and learning styles relate to career planning
• Use career information
• Plan for transition to the next stage of education, training or work

What you'll be able to do

• Understand own strengths, qualities, skills and abilities
• Understand relevant sources of information, advice and guidance in relation to career management
• Know how own abilities relate to progression opportunities
• Plan for transition to the next stage of education, training or work

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the structure of the leisure and tourism industry
• Know about trends, developments and issues in leisure and recreation in the UK
• Know about the factors that affect people’s choice of leisure and recreation opportunities

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the growth and development of babies up to twelve months
• Understand the basic dietary requirements of babies
• Know that caring for babies varies with different cultures
• Understand the health and safety requirements for babies within a range of settings

What you'll be able to do

• Use manual woodworking tools
• Maintain manual and electrical tools
• Use electrical tools in woodwork
• Store woodworking tools

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the structure and function of animal cells
• Know about the structure and function of plant cells
• Know about the structure and function of bacterial cells
• Know how substances and water move into and out of cells
• Know about enzyme action

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the changing roles and relationships of parents’ with their child as they grow older
• Know about the changes that a young person goes through during adolescence
• Understand the pressure(s) that families with adolescents can experience
• Understand issues that can cause conflict
• Understand issues of power and authority

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature of chemistry
• Understand the main types of chemical reaction
• Understand rates of reaction

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the structure of the atom and the arrangement of electrons
• Know about patterns in the periodic table
• Know about types of chemical reactions
• Understand pH, acids, alkalis, indicators and neutralisation
• Use symbols to represent molecules and equations to represent chemical reactions

What you'll be able to do

• Understand listening skills when working with children
• Understand the development of comprehension of vocabulary and sentence grammar
• Understand the development of expressive language skills in relation to learning
• Understand the development of speech and sound in relationship to learning
• Know about different communication methods with children
• Understand the impact of poorly developed social skills in children on communication

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the use of child development observation and recording techniques
• Undertake child development observation sessions over a sustained period
• Use observations to support the evaluation of a child’s on-going development
• Record observations and records

What you'll be able to do

• Know that all children have needs and rights
• Know about different types of child abuse
• Respond to a child’s disclosure of abuse
• Know about the legislative framework surrounding issues of child protection

What you'll be able to do

• Understand that all children have needs and rights
• Understand the different forms that child abuse can take
• Understand how to deal with a child’s disclosure of abuse
• Understand the legislative framework surrounding issues of child protection

What you'll be able to do

• Understand that citizens have rights and responsibilities
• Understand equal opportunities in relation to current legislation
• Understand the main functions of local and national government
• Know about the main public services available in own local community

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature/nurture debate with regard to intelligence
• Understand theories of cognitive development
• Understand how language develops
• Understand experimental methods in relation to cognitive development

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how cognitive psychologists draw on the structure and processes of memory
• Understand the effectiveness of memory models in cognitive psychological research

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature of discrete and continuous data.
• Collect, organise and present continuous data for a specific purpose. (N2.1, N2.3)
• Know ways of describing continuous data statistically. (N2.2)

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature of discrete and continuous data.
• Collect, organise and present discrete data for a specific purpose. (N2.1, N2.3)
• Know ways of describing data statistically. (N2.2)

What you'll be able to do

• Calculate, measure and record time in different formats
• Estimate, measure and compare temperature
• Use common metric and imperial units
• Use scales to find dimensions and distance
• Calculate compound measures and rates of exchange
• Know about 2-D representations of 3-D objects
• Understand and find the perimetres of regular and composite 2D shapes, including circles, using a given formula
• Find areas of regular and composite shapes
• Find volumes of regular 3D shapes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of the parent/s in developing a warm and loving relationship with Baby
• Know the different baby states of awareness for essential communication

What you'll be able to do

• Write a formal letter
• Communicate effectively on the telephone
• Take part in a meeting

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the roles and responsibilities associated with working in a group
• Communicate with others in a group situation
• Co-operate with others when working in a group situation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the lines of communication within own organisation
• Understand the need to communicate effectively with team members
• Define tasks for interpretation by others
• Understand how conflict is dealt with in own organisation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the lines of communication within own organisation
• Understand the need to communicate effectively with others in the workplace
• Communicate with others about tasks in the workplace
• Understand how conflict is dealt with in own organisation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the value of water as a garden feature
• Construct a pond
• Select water plants for a pool
• Plan for the maintenance of a water garden

What you'll be able to do

• Explain the importance of own role and how it contributes to the team performance
• Use feedback to improve personal team performance
• Manage time and commitments effectively
• Establish effective working relationships with all members of the team
• Comply with organisational, national and European legislation

What you'll be able to do

• Plan meals according to specific requirements
• Prepare dishes using a variety of ingredients
• Understand the importance of health and safety requirements in the kitchen

What you'll be able to do

• Know the nutritive value of dairy products and eggs
• Use dairy foods and eggs in cookery
• Evaluate own work
• Understand principles of health and safety

What you'll be able to do

• Know about rice, grains and pulses
• Prepare food using rice, grains and pulses
• Evaluate own work
• Understand principles of health and safety

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the key theoretical issues informing counselling
• Know the main approaches to counselling
• Know the historical background and development of counselling
• Understand the role of theory in the process of counselling
• Understand and apply one main counselling model

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the format of a Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Construct a Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Complete a covering letter of application

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the health and safety requirements related to creative activity
• Develop own ideas for creative activity
• Experiment with media using a sketchbook and/or journal
• Use a range of materials and equipment
• Understand techniques that can be used to undertake creative activity

What you'll be able to do

• Plan the process of construction of an original machine embroidery design
• Know about health and safety requirements when working with machine embroidery
• Create an original design using machine embroidery

What you'll be able to do

• Know the value of sketchbook methodology for machine embroidery design
• Develop ideas for machine embroidery design through experimentation

What you'll be able to do

• Produce sophisticated creative writing
• Understand the importance of structure and shape
• Understand form and genre in creative writing
• Understand strategies for conveying themes
• Critically analyse creative writing

What you'll be able to do

• Know about different litreary styles
• Use personal experiences in creative writing
• Understand the importance of structuring and shaping initial ideas
• Understand the importance of choosing a particular reading audience
• Reflect on own work

What you'll be able to do

• Know why young people become involved in crime
• Know the consequences of crime on different people
• Understand the Criminal and Youth Justice System process
• Know about custodial and alternative forms of sentences
• Know the role of local agencies involved in supporting offenders and their victims

What you'll be able to do

• Know about herbs
• Understand the factors to be considered in selecting herbs for a particular site
• Cultivate a range of herbs

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the benefits to an organisation of good customer service
• Understand the possible consequences of poor customer service
• Understand the value of giving customers a positive first impression of an organisation
• Understand positive verbal and non-verbal interaction with customers
• Understand that respect for the individual is at the heart of good customer service
• Understand how to deal with customer complaints

What you'll be able to do

• Extract and interpret information tables, charts and graphs
• Know the difference between discrete and continuous data
• Collect, organise and represent discrete and continuous data
• Know about mean, median and mode
• Use range within sets of data
• Know about combined and independent events

What you'll be able to do

• Enter, edit and maintain data records in a data management system
• Retrieve and display data records to meet requirements

What you'll be able to do

• Know about forms of bullying
• Recognise the effects of bullying
• Recognise strategies for dealing with bullying
• Know where to access help and support

What you'll be able to do

• Know how decisions are made
• Know about the different types of decisions made within groups
• Know about different decision making styles

What you'll be able to do

• Produce a plan for the training session
• Deliver a training session
• Evaluate a training session

What you'll be able to do

• Follow the design process
• Work from a design brief

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to develop creative or cultural ideas
• Communicate ideas
• Know the importance of feedback
• Understand progression opportunities for further development of ideas

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the influence of the law on social policy
• Understand the development of social policy

What you'll be able to do

• Use a range of techniques to investigate the source of the fault in a domestic appliance
• Work safely when diagnosing a fault in a domestic appliance

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the functions of food
• Know about balanced diets
• Produce a healthy eating plan for self

What you'll be able to do

• Produce images
• Use photographic software
• Print images
• Follow health and safety procedures

What you'll be able to do

• Know about legislation relating to people who have support needs
• Know about current philosophies towards people with support needs
• Know about attitudes in society to people who have support needs

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the meaning of the term ‘diversity’ in relation to society
• Know about the differences and practices of diverse groups of people in society
• Know about the importance of respecting diversity
• Know about the contributions of diverse groups to society

What you'll be able to do

• Know about different forms of domestic abuse
• Understand external attitudes and cycles may which influence domestic abuse
• Know about the impact of power and control within relationships
• Recognise key considerations surrounding abusive relationships
• Know about support available for individuals experiencing domestic abuse

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the distribution of water to and around domestic properties
• Plan the positioning of plumbing hardware in a domestic property
• Plan pipework, storage and insulation systems for domestic property
• Understand the main types of domestic hot water systems
• Understand how to install major domestic appliances and facilities
• Understand the relative merits of common domestic central heating options

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the differences between types of drugs
• Know some of the causes of drug misuse
• Know some of the physical and psychological effects of drug misuse
• Understand the implications of drug misuse on others
• Understand some of the health issues associated with drug misuse
• Know the effects of withdrawing from drugs
• Know some of the agencies offering help and information on drug misuse

What you'll be able to do

• Know about eating disorders
• Understand the link between food and feelings

What you'll be able to do

• Understand biomes
• Understand the interaction of abiotic and biotic factors of an ecosystem and the flow of energy through the system
• Appreciate how living organisms interact with each other in nutrient cycling within ecosystems

What you'll be able to do

• Understand different classifications of economic activity
• Understand de-industrialisation in the European Union
• Understand the changing location of tertiary economic activity in the UK
• Understand industrial change in LEDCs

What you'll be able to do

• Use email software tools and techniques to compose and send messages
• Manage incoming email

What you'll be able to do

• Know about employment legislation
• Know about statutory and contractual employment rights
• Know about a contract of employment
• Understand the implications of breach of contract
• Know about of payslips and pay

What you'll be able to do

• Know about employment legislation
• Know about statutory and contractual employment rights
• Know about a contract of employment
• Understand the implications of breach of contract
• Understand pay

What you'll be able to do

• Identify the hazards in the workplace
• Act upon hazards in the workplace
• Reduce the risks to health and safety in the workplace

What you'll be able to do

• Know about environmental conservation
• Know about methods of environmental conservation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the basic concept of sustainability
• Understand the importance of natural resources
• Know about the impact of different industries on the environment
• Understand how to reduce the impacts of agriculture and industry on the global environment
• Understand the benefits of sustainable communities

What you'll be able to do

• Know about ethics
• Understand current legislation and policies relating to an ethical dilemma
• Appreciate competing views in an ethical debate

What you'll be able to do

• Know about revision strategies
• Prepare for an examination
• Review own examination performance

What you'll be able to do

• Understand revision strategies
• Prepare for an examination
• Review own examination performance

What you'll be able to do

• Know about experiential education
• Know about activities for experiential education
• Plan an experiential edication activity

What you'll be able to do

• Deliver an experiential education session

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of shared learning
• Know about ways of supporting learning
• Know the ways in which they can help their child with litreacy and numeracy skills
• Know about the impact of role models on attitudes to learning
• Review and record their own learning

What you'll be able to do

• Know about family units
• Know about the different roles within a family unit
• Know about problems in family life
• Understand own responsibilities within the family to family members
• Know about the changing needs of family members
• Develop own strategies for personal development as a member of the family unit

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the relevant tools and equipment
• Know about relevant plant material
• Understand conditioning techniques
• Understand preservation techniques
• Understand basic design principles
• Understand basic construction techniques

What you'll be able to do

• Know the nutritional value of common foods for children
• Know other considerations to take account when preparing food for children
• Know the importance of food safety in relation to the preparation and storage of food for children

What you'll be able to do

• Identify garden/allotment produce
• Control weeds
• Grow and care for plants grown from seed
• Use basic methods to improve plant yield

What you'll be able to do

• Make informed design decisions
• Plan and produce a garment
• Review own work

What you'll be able to do

• Plan for a talk or presentation. (C2.1, C2.2)
• Understand how to organise material for a talk or presentation. (C2.1, C2.3)
• Give a talk or presentation. (C2.1)
• Evaluate own performance.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about fruit plants and their cultural forms available to gardeners
• Understand factors relating to the siting of a fruit garden and choice of fruit
• Understand the maintenance of fruit plants
• Know about common fruit pests, diseases and disorders

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles and practices of crop rotation
• Understand the factors involved in siting a vegetable production area
• Describe how to grow a range of vegetables seeds
• Understand key factors for growing tree fruit plants
• Plant and maintain tree fruit plants
• Grow a range of soft fruit plants

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the history of hand knitting
• Understand the use of colour theory, texture, shape and form for the design of hand knitted items for home interiors

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the history of hand knitting
• Understand the use of colour theory, texture, shape and form in the design of hand knitted items

What you'll be able to do

• Plan the process of construction of an original hand knit design
• Know about safe working practices when constructing hand knitted items
• Make a hand knit item to a saleable standard

What you'll be able to do

• Plan the knitting of a co-ordinated range of hand knit textiles for the home
• Make well-constructed samples of each product in the range to a saleable standard
• Understand safe working practices when constructing the hand knit range
• Make a co-ordinated range of hand knitted products for home interiors, to a saleable standard
• Use presentation skills to display the range of hand knitted products for home interiors

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the concept of health promotion
• Promote principles of a healthy lifestyle
• Know about potential conflicts related to health promotion
• Know about care workers keeping safe and healthy

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the role of psychology in health
• Know about the medical model approach to health
• Know about the bio-psychosocial approach to health

What you'll be able to do

• Know about elements of Health and Safety Policy at work
• Know where potential hazards can occur in the workplace
• Maintain a safe environment in the workplace
• Know about the individual’s responsibility for Health and Safety at work
• Understand the procedures for fire prevention and evacuation
• Know about risk assessment

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to keep a healthy body weight
• Understand the requirements of a healthy diet
• Understand why a healthy lifestyle is important

What you'll be able to do

• Know about personal fitness
• Develop a personal exercise programme to improve own healthy lifestyle
• Know about the role of a balanced diet in promoting good health
• Know about the importance of personal hygiene and grooming
• Understand the issues of sex education and contraception
• Take responsibility for own health and lifestyle

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the health and safety requirements of own workplace surroundings
• Understand the main elements of Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
• Prevent common accidents at work
• Respond to first aid incidents
• Demonstrate resuscitation techniques and the recovery position
• Safely handle and move inanimate loads

What you'll be able to do

• Know about hot stone massage
• Know about health and safety requirements when using hot stones
• Understand the principles of hot stone massage
• Know about areas of the body where hot stone massage may be used
• Carry out basic massage techniques using hot stones

What you'll be able to do

• Know about reservation systems currently in operation in the hospitality industry
• Know about pricing methods that can be applied to accommodation
• Know about the monitoring systems used in reservations
• Know the main implications of contract law as applied to hotel reservation transactions

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the range of establishments providing accommodation
• Understand the importance of cleaning
• Understand that different cleaning requires a range of specialist equipment and methods
• Understand that accommodation (use of floor) will determine floor covering
• Understand the reasons for the selection and control of linen

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the relationship between anatomy, physiology and complementary therapy
• Know about the structure of bodily systems
• Know about the benefits of complementary therapy

What you'll be able to do

• Understand different types of relationships
• Understand own feelings in different relationships
• Understand how feelings can influence behaviour
• Understand different types of controlling situations
• Understand acceptable boundaries to behaviour
• Know about methods of challenging inappropriate behaviour
• Know about support agencies within his/her area

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature of micro-organisms
• Understand the effects of personal behaviour on the spread of infectious diseases
• Understand the impact of medical research and development on the spread of infectious diseases

What you'll be able to do

• Know about life processes and cellular organisation in humans
• Understand the features of blood and the circulatory system
• Understand the digestive process

What you'll be able to do

• Use sources of information to meet needs
• Access and assess fitness for purpose of information
• Select and use IT to communicate and exchange information safely, responsibly and effectively

What you'll be able to do

• Know about different ways and areas of learning which reflect own likes and/or dislikes
• Use own strengths, aptitudes and skills to determine learning targets
• Plan how to achieve learning targets
• Review own performance against action plan

What you'll be able to do

• Know about different ways of learning which reflect own likes and dislikes
• Use own strengths, aptitudes and skills to determine realistic learning targets
• Make decisions about how to achieve learning targets
• Review performance against own learning targets

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature of improvisation
• Devise performance through the process of improvisation
• Know about the functions of a given brief
• Contribute to a group devised performance
• Understand the value of evaluation

What you'll be able to do

• Identify a market for a product or service
• Conduct financial planning
• Plan human resources when building a business
• Produce a business plan

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare to install a domestic appliance
• Install a domestic appliance
• Work safely when installing domestic appliances

What you'll be able to do

• Create a stimulating environment for young children
• Plan, implement and evaluate activities for play
• Communicate with young children and babies

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the concept of interior design
• Understand historical developments in interior design
• Know about the influence of socio-economic and technological factors on interior design

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the concept of interior design
• Know about developments in interior design
• Know about the influence different factors have had on interior design

What you'll be able to do

• Identify personal skills
• Know about stress in self
• Know about different types of criticism
• Know about body language
• Know about respond to different behaviours

What you'll be able to do

• Understand personal strengths and weaknesses
• Understand the need for time management
• Understand the need to manage stress
• Understand the difference between constructive and destructive criticism
• Understand the application of body language in personal and work related situations
• Understand different behaviours

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of marketing within a business

What you'll be able to do

• Know about self-employment in a given sector
• Know the characteristics of successful self-employed people
• Know about income and expenditure as a self-employed person
• Know the responsibilities of a self-employed person
• Know about planning for self-employment
• Understand the support available to people considering self-employment

What you'll be able to do

• Know about sociological topics
• Know about key theories in the study of sociology
• Carry out sociological research

What you'll be able to do

• Understand why organisations recruit volunteers
• Understand processes for recruiting volunteers

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the differences between legal and illegal substances
• Understand the impact of the use and misuse of substances
• Know about sources of support relating to misuse of substances

What you'll be able to do

• Use a variety of measuring methods
• Know the importance of health and safety requirements when working in a kitchen
• Understand and apply the principles of food hygiene
• Understand and apply the principles of personal hygiene
• Understand how to organise and maintain the work area for food preparation
• Clear away safely and efficiently
• Use and care for equipment correctly

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how the main light vehicle engine mechanical systems operate
• Understand how light vehicle engine Lubrication systems operate
• Understand how light vehicle engine cooling, heating and ventilation systems operate
• Understand how to check, replace and test light vehicle engine mechanical, lubrication and cooling systems system units and components

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to carry out routine light vehicle maintenance
• Understand the importance of carrying out light vehicle maintenance

What you'll be able to do

• Use composition perspectives for land and cityscapes
• Use light and shadow to create images depth in land and cityscapes
• Use near and far subject elements to create depth
• Observe and photograph land and cityscapes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of plants and planting in horticultural design
• Demonstrate the use of containers and growing areas
• Produce designs
• Demonstrate ornamental planting techniques
• Maintain a landscaped/planted area

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the key characteristics of an effective leader
• Understand the skills involved in being an effective leader
• Understand how to develop the relationship between leader and team member
• Understand how to improve own leadership skills

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the key characteristics of an effective leader
• Understand the skills involved in being an effective leader
• Know about the development of the relationship of leader and team member
• Lead

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of the learner representative
• Understand the importance of learner involvement
• Know about the skills of learner representation
• Represent learners’ view
• Review own performance as learner representative

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of the learner representative
• Understand the importance of learner involvement
• Understand the skills of learner representation
• Represent learners’ views
• Reflect on own performance as learner representative

What you'll be able to do

• Identify personal goals for volunteering
• Find and obtain voluntary work within the community
• Know the personal benefit of undertaking voluntary work
• Identify the transferable skills and experience gained through volunteering

What you'll be able to do

• Know about legal litreature
• Use legal litreature

What you'll be able to do

• Understand lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) terminology
• Understand legislation that supports LGBT people
• Understand the effects of oppression on LGBT people
• Know about organisations that provide LGBT advice and support

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the principles underpinning life drawing
• Use proportion when drawing from a life model
• Know about the use of line and colour
• Know about the importance of keeping a personal sketchbook
• Work within identified Health and Safety procedures

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature of biological science
• Understand inheritance
• Understand how organisms interact with the environment and each other
• Understand the structure and function of a key plant system
• Understand the structure and function of a key animal system
• Understand the similarities and differences between plant and animal systems

What you'll be able to do

• Know about common Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
• Know what individuals can do to reduce the risk of transmitting or contracting STIs
• Know about the issues surrounding disclosure of HIV status

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the purpose and content of story sacks
• Produce a story sack and contents
• Use a story sack effectively
• Encourage reading for meaning and comprehension
• Use the prompt card to develop litreacy skills
• Know about sequencing skills and open questioning
• Identify language development opportunities
• Evaluate the use of the story sack

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of power in relationships
• Understand the benefits and difficulties of giving and receiving support
• Understand the key behaviours that contribute to good teamwork
• Understand how conflicts can develop
• Use listening skills in a conflict situation
• Understand the concept of impartiality

What you'll be able to do

• Plan a project
• Monitor the progress of a project
• Evaluate the project

What you'll be able to do

• Plan a project
• Monitor the progress of a project
• Review the project

What you'll be able to do

• Know how communication can be used to solve problems and reduce the likelihood of conflict
• Know the factors that influence human responses in conflict situations
• Assess and reduce risks in conflict situations
• Communicate effectively and de-escalate conflict in emotive situations
• Know good practice to follow after conflict situations

What you'll be able to do

• Know about health and safety requirements when giving massage
• Know about human physiology
• Know about the benefits of massage
• Know about massage strokes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand mediation and its role in conflict resolution
• Understand the role of a mediator
• Understand the underlying principles of mediation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the general health and hygiene requirements for the development of young children’s physical needs
• Understand the necessary provision made for the physical needs of children by families
• Understand how to care for a sick child

What you'll be able to do

• Know what is meant by ‘mentoring’
• Understand the need to respect individuality and difference within the mentoring relationship

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate good practice in mentoring
• Review own practice as a mentor

What you'll be able to do

• Add and subtract fraction quantities. (N2.2)
• Use ratios and direct proportion to calculate quantities and measures. (N2.2)
• Use percentages. (N2.1, N2.2)
• Solve a multistage problem involving number. (N2.1, N2.2)

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the function of food
• Understand the relationship between food and health
• Understand the basic principles of weight control
• Understand why a balanced diet is required to maximise performance
• Understand how to promote healthy eating

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the function of food
• Understand the relationship between food and health
• Understand the basic principles of weight control
• Understand why a balanced diet is required to maximise performance

What you'll be able to do

• Use observations and recording methods to reflect a child’s development
• Know how babies communicate
• Respond to changing needs of children
• Understand how the transition to parenthood affects parent’s well-being

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the differences between written and oral stories
• Understand the appeal of popular stories
• Use a range of basic storytelling techniques
• Reflect upon the work of writers

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the regulatory framework in which organic horticulture operates
• Know about the advantages to the environment of organic horticultural methods
• Understand how the principles of organic horticulture can be integrated into mainstream horticulture
• Understand the economic underpinning of the organic approach

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of an event organiser in realising the event brief
• Organise an event
• Oversee all of the legal requirements for the event
• Delegate responsibility to the event team
• Engage their target audience

What you'll be able to do

• Understand long term causes of the First World War
• Understand the immediate causes of the First World War
• Know the differing views on the responsibility for the outbreak of the First World War

What you'll be able to do

• Know the responsibilities of being a parent
• Understand the rights and needs of different family members
• Understand the importance of listening to children and giving them choices
• Know about the major stages of a child’s development
• Know how positive parenting builds self-esteem in children

What you'll be able to do

• Understand different job roles within a vocational area
• Use relevant skills, knowledge and personal qualities in a vocational context
• Understand the health and safety requirements relevant to the vocational context
• Reflect on suitability for job role in chosen vocational context

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the skills and qualities needed to deliver peer education
• Know about the role of communication skills in peer education
• Know about own skills and qualities needed for involvement in peer education

What you'll be able to do

• Know about forecasting and planning
• Develop plans into a realised production
• Evaluate own work

What you'll be able to do

• Know about effective realisation of a performance
• Appreciate own performance
• Evaluate the realisation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand effective realisation of a performance
• Appreciate own performance
• Appreciate the realisation

What you'll be able to do

• Know about reasons for feeling confident and lacking confidence
• Participate in social situations
• Manage stress
• Plan for personal progression

What you'll be able to do

• Know about own strengths, weaknesses and skills
• Know about own personal skills
• Acknowledge own current life situation and relationships
• Make positive decisions
• Produce an action plan to support the achievement of personal goals

What you'll be able to do

• Understand own current levels of emotional resilience
• Know about methods for coping in difficult situations
• Plan ways to develop own emotional resilience

What you'll be able to do

• Know about commonly used methods of saving
• Know about forms of credit

What you'll be able to do

• Understand what is meant by income and expenditure
• Understand the issues of coping on a limited budget
• Undertake financial transactions
• Understand key financial information on everyday documents
• Understand what saving means
• Produce a budget plan

What you'll be able to do

• Set goals in relation to learning objectives and aims
• Develop an action plan to support the achievement of learning objectives and aims
• Know about own progress towards objectives and aims
• Carry out self-evaluation and summative review

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to assess their own physical fitness levels
• Follow strategies to improve own fitness

What you'll be able to do

• Identify and respond to situations where there may be personal risk
• Understand reasons for taking risks

What you'll be able to do

• Know own strengths
• Relate own strengths to opportunities

What you'll be able to do

• Understand own strengths
• Understand how to relate own strengths to opportunities

What you'll be able to do

• Locate, retrieve and store information
• Read and respond to written materials
• Produce written materials for specific purposes
• Use basic IT applications to enhance own learning
• Make appropriate personal contributions in individual and group discussions

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the impact of own actions and decisions
• Recognise injustice, exploitation and denial of human rights
• Understand values, attitudes and beliefs
• Recognise that people hold different opinions
• Recognise moral judgements, issues and dilemmas

What you'll be able to do

• Use photographic lighting
• Carry out checks on electronic flash equipment
• Apply lighting for a range of photographic lighting situations
• Follow health and safety procedures

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of an event planner
• Understand the arrangements to be made when planning an event
• Understand the different types of venues and resources needed for different types of events

What you'll be able to do

• Know major food groups and their functions
• Understand the different dietary needs of specific groups of people
• Apply dietary knowledge in menu planning
• Provide nutritious healthy meals

What you'll be able to do

• Plan, monitor and promote an event
• Know about the impact of effective promotion

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the term ‘propagation’
• Understand the use of seed in plant propagation
• Propagate plants by cuttings and division
• Know how layering and grafting may propagate plants

What you'll be able to do

• Know about tools and equipment used in plastering
• Know about materials used in plastering
• Understand how to prepare for plastering
• Plaster
• Review own work

What you'll be able to do

• Understand children’s key stages of development
• Understand the importance of providing suitable resources and play activities for children
• Understand the nature and function of play in a childcare setting

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the ways in which children birth to three years learn through play
• Understand current government initiatives covering birth – three year olds

What you'll be able to do

• Support children in developing their attention span and memory
• Develop children’s understanding of mathematics and science
• Support children in developing and expressing their imagination and creativity
• Facilitate communication with a child
• Promote children’s communication skills in a group
• Plan activities and experiences to facilitate children’s learning and development

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the implications of population change
• Understand the reasons for aid provision
• Understand the impact that aid provision may have on a receiving country

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the range of design features for a specified project
• Make informed design decisions
• Prepare for the construction process
• Produce a floral arrangement
• Review own work

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the skills involved in preparing and delivering presentations
• Use different visual aids and delivery styles in presentations
• Plan a presentation
• Deliver a presentation
• Assess performance and identify areas for improvement

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the meaning of the terms ‘prejudice’ and ‘discrimination’
• Know about stereotypical attitudes
• Know about the origins of attitudes
• Know the consequences of prejudice and discrimination
• Know the importance of Equal Opportunities Policies

What you'll be able to do

• Know the importance of being prepared for a recruitment interview
• Know the type of questions that may be used at a recruitment interview
• Understand how to recognise and respond to different types of interviewer questions
• Assess own performance in a recruitment interview