AIM Qualifications Entry Level Certificate in Employability and Development Skills (Entry 3)

What you'll be able to do

• Know the forms of public transport.
• Plan a journey on public transport.
• Make a journey on public transport.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare ground for planting.
• Plant.
• Prepare and turf an area.
• Maintain amenity planting and grass.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare for tasks.
• Dismantle a practice section of wall.
• Mix mortar for workshop practice.
• Prepare for workshop practice.
• Prepare for workshop practice.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare for tasks.
• Build a half brick wall, three courses high.
• Tidy work area.

What you'll be able to do

• Work safely when cleaning and preparing a cycle for use.
• Know about cycle cleaning and finishing products.
• Carry out the cleaning and preparation of a cycle for use.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand clothing design.
• Follow a design brief.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the different parts of a computer.
• Know computer terminology.
• Know about computer performance and features.
• Know about computer operating systems.

What you'll be able to do

• Choose materials for making curtains.
• Make and hang curtains.
• Use tools and equipment safely.

What you'll be able to do

• Extract and interpret information.
• Make numerical comparisons from bar charts and pictograms.

What you'll be able to do

• Observe and record numerical information.
• Organise and represent information.

What you'll be able to do

• Use appropriate designs and page layouts for a publication.
• Input text and other information into a publication.
• Use desktop publishing software techniques to edit and format a publication.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about different branches of angling.
• Know about regulations relating to angling.
• Know about Health and Safety requirements when angling.
• Use angling equipment in a specific branch of angling.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of a parent in a family unit.
• Know the rights of children in a family unit.
• Understand the importance of listening to children and giving choices.
• Know techniques for dealing with challenging behaviour.
• Understand how children learn through daily family activities.
• Understand own needs as a parent.

What you'll be able to do

• Take part in an initial screening process.
• Complete an assessment process.
• Know their preferred learning style.
• Set personal goals and prepare an action plan.
• Understand commitment in relation to learning or work experience.

What you'll be able to do

• Maintain a clean home.
• Care for clothing.
• Maintain personal hygiene.
• Clean own teeth.
• Maintain a healthy body.

What you'll be able to do

• Maintain a clean home.
• Care for clothing.
• Maintain personal hygiene.
• Clean own teeth.
• Maintain a healthy body.
• Understand the importance of regular sight tests.

What you'll be able to do

• Know different soil types.
• Know different garden habitats.
• Know the role of wildlife in the garden.
• Prepare soil for plants.

What you'll be able to do

• Display travel and tourism information to customers
• Plan and present travel and tourism information
• Review their display of travel and tourism information

What you'll be able to do

• Divide two digit whole numbers, interpreting remainders.
• Use ÷ and = in calculations.
• Be able use a calculator to solve division problems.
• Estimate answers to calculations.

What you'll be able to do

• Engage in discussion.

What you'll be able to do

• Know some ways that people affect the environment.
• Understand how people can take action to benefit the environment.

What you'll be able to do

• Extract and interpret information from a range of sources.
• Make numerical comparisons from bar charts.
• Make numerical comparisons from pictograms.

What you'll be able to do

• Read and write common fractions.
• Use equivalent fractions.
• Recognise common fractions in everyday contexts.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about sewing equipment.
• Use sewing equipment.
• Make a garment.
• Tackle basic problems when making a garment.
• Follow safe working practices.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify trees common to an area.
• Identify wild plants common to a woodland area.
• Identify common tracks or signs left by living creatures.
• Understand the importance of preserving natural woodland.

What you'll be able to do

• Use grammar to aid understanding.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify and locate basic external car parts.
• Identify and locate basic internal car parts.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand ways of learning which reflect own likes and dislikes
• Determine realistic learning target(s)
• Make decisions about how to achieve learning targets
• Understand own performance

What you'll be able to do

• Know own spelling weaknesses.
• Use strategies to improve spelling.

What you'll be able to do

• Locate facilities at college.
• Identify members of staff and their roles.
• Know reasons for attending college.
• Understand own responsibilities while at college.
• Understand differences between college and a previous place of learning.
• Identify Health and Safety procedures.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the structure and working patterns of the Building and Construction industry.
• Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Building and Construction industry.
• Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Building and Construction industry.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the structure and working patterns of the Business and Administration sector
• Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Business and Administration sector
• Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Business and Administration sector

What you'll be able to do

• Provide physical care for children of different ages.
• Choose appropriate clothing and footwear for children.
• Understand the importance of a child’s daily routine.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare for drilling and fixing components.
• Drill and fix components to different wall surfaces.
• Leave work area clean and tidy.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the structure and working patterns of the Engineering sector
• Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Engineering sector
• Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Engineering sector

What you'll be able to do

• Know the structure and working patterns of the Hairdressing sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Hairdressing sector.
• Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Hairdressing sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare for measuring and marking out.
• Mark and measure out a range of components.
• Estimate material requirements according to measurements.
• Leave work area clean and tidy.

What you'll be able to do

• Cross a road safely.
• Walk to a specified destination.

What you'll be able to do

• Cross a road safely.
• Walk to a specified destination.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the structure and working patterns of the Travel and Tourism industry
• Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Travel and Tourism industry
• Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Travel and Tourism industry

What you'll be able to do

• Source ideas or images for a design project.
• Develop and record own ideas for a project.
• Plan a design project.
• Carry out and complete a design project.
• Review own work.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the structure and working patterns of the Information and Communication Technology sector.
• Know about different types of career opportunities available in the Information and Communication Technology sector.
• Develop and demonstrate an appropriate skill in the Information and Communication Technology sector.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the need to keep a clean kitchen.
• Use equipment to clean a kitchen.
• Use products to clean a kitchen.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the basic principles of lip reading.
• Use strategies to improve effective communication.
• Know how finger spelling works.
• Know the main features of how the auditory system functions.
• Use non-verbal communication.
• Differentiate between vowels and consonants and speech shapes.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about history of own local area.
• Research local history.
• Record information related to local history.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of personal hygiene.
• Understand the importance of caring for clothes and other laundry.
• Understand the importance of a balanced diet to a healthy lifestyle.
• Plan and budget for a balanced diet.
• Understand the importance of exercise to a healthy lifestyle.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare for lubricating and tensioning of cycle chain.
• Lubricate and tension a cycle chain.
• Tidy up area after work.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the purpose and content of story sacks.
• Produce a story sack and contents.

What you'll be able to do

• Estimate measure and compare capacity.
• Read a thermometre.

What you'll be able to do

• Measure weight.
• Put weights in order.
• Estimate weight.

What you'll be able to do

• Read and interpret distance in everyday situations.
• Estimate measure and compare length.

What you'll be able to do

• Use equipment for needle and textile tasks.
• Work with fabric.
• Tackle problems when preparing and cutting fabric.
• Work safely with textiles.

What you'll be able to do

• Select equipment and tools for cutting and hanging wall coverings.
• Cut and hang wallpaper to a flat, vertical wall.
• Tidy work area.
• Look after tools.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about job roles within a vocational area.
• Use relevant skills and knowledge in a vocational context.
• Know about Health and Safety requirements relevant to a vocational context.
• Comment on strengths and areas for improvement when working in a vocational context.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about own qualities and skills.
• Set personal goals.
• Plan to meet personal goals.

What you'll be able to do

• Use a software package to process digital photographs.

What you'll be able to do

• Know why bathing or showering is necessary for personal hygiene.
• Know the reasons for using toiletries.
• Know why clothes should be changed regularly.
• Know why clothes should be washed or cleaned regularly.

What you'll be able to do

• Know common foot conditions.
• Know the correct use of footwear.
• Understand that own feet and toenails need to be cared for.
• Understand the importance of keeping the hands and nails clean.
• Wash own hands.
• Care for own fingernails.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of visiting the dentist regularly.
• Know problems that can occur from poor oral hygiene.
• Understand the importance of correct tooth brushing for good dental health.
• Brush own teeth correctly.
• Know products that are available to support good dental hygiene.
• Know what sorts of foods can cause tooth decay.

What you'll be able to do

• Know conventions for personal presentation in the workplace.
• Demonstrate appropriate personal presentation for the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

• Safeguard own home, personal possessions and self.
• Know what action needs to be taken in the event of fire.
• Respond to a fire drill.
• Know about general fire detection devices.
• Cope appropriately with an accident.
• Know when and how to contact own GP or health centre.
• Summon the emergency services.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan a short walk.
• Know about undertaking a walk.
• Participate in a short walk.
• Record walks taken.

What you'll be able to do

• Know how types and colours of flowers are used in the design of floral arrangements.
• Make a floral arrangement.
• Make a buttonhole.

What you'll be able to do

• Behave appropriately in a workplace or production area.
• Communicate during production processes.
• Work as part of a team.
• Use simple production equipment and tools.
• Recognise suitable product standards.

What you'll be able to do

• Research a tourist destination.
• Communicate information about a tourist destination.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand instructional texts.
• Know when to use punctuation and capitalisation.

What you'll be able to do

• Read and understand key specialist words.
• Complete a form.

What you'll be able to do

• Perform reception duties in an office environment.
• Carry out filing tasks in an office environment.
• Deal with messages in an office environment.

What you'll be able to do

• Recognise common trees.
• Recognise common plants.
• Know the benefits of trees and plants to wildlife.

What you'll be able to do

• Know own strengths and weaknesses.
• Recognise own skills and investigate ways of self-improvement.
• Describe current life situation and identify relationships.
• Make positive decisions.
• Set personal objectives and make action plans for self-improvement.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about packaging.
• Know about recycling.
• Know about controlling waste.

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare for replacement of cycle saddles, seatposts and handlebars.
• Replace a cycle saddle, seatpost and handlebars.
• Tidy up area after work.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to research tourist destinations
• Carry out research on a tourist destination
• Present research on a tourist destination

What you'll be able to do

• Understand that employees have rights in the workplace.
• Understand that employees have responsibilities in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

• Recognise the properties of 2-D shapes.
• Recognise the properties of 3-D shapes.

What you'll be able to do

• Know different types of shops.
• Know items needed to furnish a home.
• Use a budget.
• Use shops.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the need for Health and Safety procedures at work.
• Participate in a task in a work-simulated environment.
• Work as part of a team.
• Know social skills needed for work.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the responsibilities of caring for accommodation.
• Understand the importance of personal hygiene and having clean clothes.
• Understand the importance of a balanced diet and planned meals.
• Understand the care required to look after people.
• Understand the importance of budgeting.
• Understand the importance of leisure time and activities.

What you'll be able to do

• Plan a visit to a local shop.
• Plan a trip to a local shop.
• Buy items.
• Conduct self appropriately on a shopping trip.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand why personal fitness is important to good health.
• Understand the role that exercise plays in maintaining a healthy life style.
• Plan a balanced, healthy meal.
• Understand the importance of personal hygiene and good grooming in relation to healthy living.
• Take responsibility for own health and lifestyle through action planning for the future.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature of adult relationships.
• Understand issues relating to adult physical relationships.

What you'll be able to do

• Use equipment for making soft furnishings.
• Produce a piece of soft furnishing work.
• Tackle basic problems in a soft furnishing task.
• Follow safe working practices when undertaking a soft furnishing project.

What you'll be able to do

• Write a legible letter.
• Use different strategies for learning to spell.
• Spell common words and relevant key words relating to work routines, leisure and study.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of family learning in raising achievement.
• Help improve litreacy and numeracy skills.
• Know different roles and responsibilities within family learning.
• Understand own contribution in encouraging a child’s learning.
• Know other groups that support family learning.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about Internet connections.
• Know about the ‘World Wide Web’ (Web).
• Search for information using a web browser.
• Use e-mail.
• Know about methods of communicating via the Internet.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of good time management.
• Know ways to promote good time management.
• Plan own use of time.
• Improve own time management.

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the organisation.
• Understand own role within organisation.
• Follow code of behaviour in the workplace.
• Know the safe working practices in the work environment.
• Carry out tasks using appropriate work related skills.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the different forms families take.
• Know the different roles within the family.
• Understand some of the difficulties in family life.
• Understand own personal responsibilities within the family to other family members.
• Know the needs of different family members.
• Know own needs for future development as a member of the family unit.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand what is meant by financial services.
• Understand what to expect from financial services.
• Speak to financial services.
• Use questioning techniques to obtain information from financial services.
• Understand vocabulary used to describe financial services.

What you'll be able to do

• Know tools and equipment required for floristry.
• Know plant material that could be used in a display.
• Understand preservation and conditioning techniques for plant material.
• Know shapes commonly used for floral displays.
• Know suitable colour combinations for a floral display.
• Understand the purpose of construction elements in floral displays.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of family learning in raising achievement.
• Help improve litreacy and numeracy skills.
• Know that there are different roles and responsibilities within family learning.
• Record learning.
• Understand that being learners themselves can make a difference to children’s attitudes to lifelong learning.
• Understand the value of working with other groups to support family learning.
• Review own learning.

What you'll be able to do

• Know a sequence of growth and development from birth to old age.
• Know the main factors that affect growth and development.
• Know how experiences may affect emotional or social development.
• Know ways in which a child learns to communicate.

What you'll be able to do

• Know a range of relationships and family lifestyles.
• Understand qualities that help people form positive consensual relationships.
• Understand rights and responsibilities within a relationship.
• Know the law in relation to sex and sexuality.
• Know body parts related to sex and contraception.
• Know contraception methods.
• Know what a sexually transmitted infection is.
• Know about agencies able to give help and advice on contraception and sexual health.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand why young people might become involved in crime.
• Understand consequences of crime for victims and offenders.
• Know about the Criminal/Youth Justice System.
• Know about custodial and alternative forms of sentences.
• Know about the role of local agencies in supporting young people.

What you'll be able to do

• Select a product to sell to a particular target market.
• Select a suitable venue to sell a product.
• Advertise a sale.
• Set up a point of sale and sell products.
• Know the costs involved in an enterprise project.
• Reflect on the outcome of an enterprise project.

What you'll be able to do

• Add whole numbers of up to three digits to give totals up to 1000.
• Carry out subtraction calculations involving whole numbers of up to three digits.

What you'll be able to do

• Know how computers can be used to support family learning.
• Know how software can be used to support family learning.
• Know about equipment that can be used with computers to support family learning.
• Know how the Internet can be used as a resource to support family learning.

What you'll be able to do

• Know uses of some common domestic appliances.
• Use electrical appliances safely.
• Store electrical appliances safely.

What you'll be able to do

• Use mixed media to produce 2D artwork.
• Know about health and safety procedures when using mixed media.
• Review own performance when producing 2D artwork.

What you'll be able to do

• Select equipment and resources to carry out routine office tasks.
• Use office equipment.

What you'll be able to do

• Use punctuation to aid understanding.

What you'll be able to do

• Locate goods to buy on the internet.
• Follow on-line instructions and processes for ordering goods.
• Understand security measures when using internet shopping sites.

What you'll be able to do

• Answer telephone calls in an office environment.
• Make telephone calls in an office environment.
• Use a photocopier in an office environment.
• Know problems that can arise when using a photocopier.

What you'll be able to do

• Work safely when working with wheels and tyres.
• Remove and replace road wheels.
• Inspect road wheels.
• Perform routine tyre maintenance.
• Replace tyres.
• Balance wheels.
• Dispose of waste products appropriately.

What you'll be able to do

• Know what voluntary organisations are.
• Identify voluntary positions currently available.
• Know about the processes necessary to become a volunteer.
• Apply for a voluntary position.

What you'll be able to do

• Use tools and equipment for washing a car exterior.
• Wash a car exterior.

What you'll be able to do

• Water plant material using a hose or watering can.
• Know the effects of incorrect flow rates when watering plants.

What you'll be able to do

• Use waxing and polishing equipment.
• Wax and polish car exterior.

What you'll be able to do

• Count whole numbers up to 1000.
• Read whole numbers up to 1000.
• Write whole numbers up to 1000.
• Compare whole numbers up to 1000.
• Match whole numbers in digit form to words.

What you'll be able to do

• Input text and edit word processing documents.
• Structure information within word processing documents.
• Use word processing software tools to format and present documents.

What you'll be able to do

• Know what activities are routinely undertaken by administrators.
• Follow instructions to carry out administrative tasks.