Focus Awards Limited · RQF Level 2
Focus Awards Level 2 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools (RQF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits30
- Guided learning185 hours
- Units in this qualification24
Awarded by Focus Awards Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
This qualification allows learners to develop the knowledge and skills required to support teaching and learning in a school environment. It covers areas such as safeguarding, preparing learning environments, and supporting children's play. It is suitable for individuals working or volunteering in roles that support teachers and pupils in schools.
These are the units Focus Awards Limited registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Child and young person developmentReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the main stages of child development.
- Know the main stages of young person development.
- Understand the kinds of influences that affect children’s development.
- Understand the kinds of influences that affect young people’s development.
- Understand the potential effects of transitions on children’s development.
- Understand the potential effects of transitions on young people’s development.
Communication and professional relationships with children, young people and adultsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Interact with and respond appropriately to children and young people.
- Interact with and respond appropriately to adults.
- Communicate effectively with children, young people and adults.
- Know about current legislation, policies and procedures for confidentiality and sharing information, including data protection.
Contribute to supporting bilingual learnersReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Interact with bilingual learners in a sensitive and supportive manner, using appropriate communication strategies
- Support bilingual learners to develop skills in the target language, using appropriate resources and techniques
- Support bilingual learners during learning activities, providing assistance and encouragement to ensure their full participation
Equality, diversity and inclusion in work with children and young peopleReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of promoting equality and diversity in work with children and young people.
- Understand the impact of prejudice and discrimination on children and young people.
- Understand inclusion and inclusive practices in work with children and young people.
Help improve own and team practice in schoolsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Reflect on own practice in supporting learning activities, identifying areas for improvement
- Improve own practice based on reflection, feedback, and professional development opportunities
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of other members of the team within the school environment
- Support the work of the team by contributing effectively and collaborating with colleagues
Invigilate tests and examinationsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant policies and procedures for the conduct of tests and examinations within the organisation
- Prepare the test or examination venue in accordance with regulations and guidelines
- Prepare candidates for tests and examinations, ensuring they understand the rules and procedures
- Implement invigilation requirements effectively, maintaining the integrity of the test or examination
- End tests and examinations according to the specified procedures, collecting materials and ensuring a smooth conclusion
Maintain and support relationships with children and young peopleReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate effectively with children and young people
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with children and young people
- Support relationships between children and young people and others in the setting
Move and position individuals in accordance with their plan of careReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic anatomy and physiology of the human body in relation to moving and positioning individuals safely and effectively.
- Understand relevant legislation, regulations, and agreed ways of working related to moving and positioning individuals, including health and safety guidelines.
- Minimise potential risks to both the individual and the care worker before moving and positioning, including assessing the environment and using appropriate equipment.
- Prepare individuals physically and emotionally before moving and positioning them, explaining the process and ensuring their comfort.
- Move and position an individual safely and effectively, using appropriate techniques and equipment as required.
- Know when to seek advice from and/or involve other professionals, such as physiotherapists or occupational therapists, when moving and positioning an individual, particularly in complex or challenging situations.
Prepare and maintain learning environmentsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare learning environments in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Prepare learning materials that are appropriate for the learners and the learning activities
- Monitor learning environments to ensure they are safe and conducive to learning
- Maintain learning environments and resources to ensure they are fit for purpose
Provide displays in schoolsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the school policy and procedures for displays, including health and safety considerations
- Design displays that are visually appealing, informative and relevant to the curriculum
- Set up displays in appropriate locations, ensuring they are secure and accessible
- Maintain displays, keeping them tidy, up-to-date and in good condition
- Dismantle displays safely and efficiently, storing materials appropriately
Provide support for therapy sessionsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the benefits of therapy sessions for individuals receiving care.
- Prepare the environment and resources required for effective therapy sessions.
- Provide practical and emotional support to individuals during therapy sessions.
- Observe and accurately record key information during therapy sessions.
- Contribute to the review of therapy sessions by providing feedback and observations.
Safeguarding the welfare of children and young peopleReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people including e-safety, in order to protect them from harm.
- Know what to do when children or young people are ill or injured, including emergency procedures, to ensure their well-being and safety.
- Respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused, harmed or bullied, following reporting procedures and maintaining confidentiality.
Schools as organisationsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the structure of education from early years to post-compulsory education.
- Understand how schools are organised in terms of roles and responsibilities.
- Understand school ethos, mission, aims and values.
- Know about the legislation affecting schools.
- Understand the purpose of school policies and procedures.
- Understand the wider context in which schools operate.
Schools as organisationsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the different types of schools in the education sector.
- Know how schools are organised in terms of roles and responsibilities.
- Understand how schools uphold their aims and values.
- Know about the laws and codes of practice that affect work in schools.
- Know about the range and purpose of school policies and procedures.
- Know about the wider context in which schools operate.
Support assessment for learningReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and characteristics of assessment for learning, including its role in promoting learner progress and achievement.
- Use assessment strategies to promote learning, providing constructive feedback and guidance to learners.
- Support learners in reviewing their learning strategies and achievements, helping them to identify areas of strength and areas for development.
- Contribute to reviewing assessment for learning practices, providing feedback on their effectiveness and suggesting improvements.
Support children and young people at meal or snack timesReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the principles of healthy eating for children and young people, including nutritional requirements and dietary guidelines.
- Know the benefits of healthy eating for children and young people, including physical and cognitive development.
- Encourage children and young people to make healthier food choices, considering individual needs and preferences.
- Support hygiene during meal or snack times, following appropriate procedures and guidelines.
- Support the code of conduct and policies for meal and snack times, ensuring a safe and positive environment.
Support children and young people with disabilities and special educational needsReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the rights of disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs, as defined by relevant legislation and guidance
- Understand the specific disabilities and/or special educational needs of children and young people in own care setting
- Contribute to the inclusion of children and young people with disabilities and special educational needs in all aspects of the setting
- Support disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs to participate in the full range of activities and experiences offered
Support children and young people’s health and safetyReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislative and policy framework for health and safety in a learning environment, including relevant regulations and guidelines
- Recognise and manage risks to children and young people’s health, safety and security, taking appropriate action to minimise risks
- Support children and young people to assess and manage risk in different situations, promoting their understanding of safety procedures
- Respond to emergency situations calmly and effectively, following established procedures and protocols
Support children and young people’s play and leisureReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and importance of play and leisure for children and young people
- Support children and young people’s play and leisure activities
- Support children and young people in balancing risk and challenge during play and leisure
- Reflect on and improve own practice in supporting children and young people's play and leisure
Support children and young people’s positive behaviourReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the policies and procedures of the setting for promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour
- Support positive behaviour in children and young people
- Respond to inappropriate behaviour displayed by children and young people
Support children and young people’s travel outside of the settingReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the relevant policy and procedures for children and young people’s travel outside of the setting, including safety and safeguarding considerations
- Support the safe arrival and departure of children and young people for off-site activities
- Support children and young people during travel, ensuring their safety and well-being
Support extra-curricular activitiesReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for extra-curricular activities, ensuring all necessary resources and arrangements are in place
- Deliver extra-curricular activities in a safe, engaging, and inclusive manner
- Bring extra-curricular activities to an end in an organised and timely fashion
- Reflect on own contribution to extra-curricular activities, identifying areas for improvement and future development
Support learning activitiesReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Support the teacher in planning learning activities in accordance with lesson plans and learning objectives
- Prepare resources and the learning environment in readiness for planned learning activities
- Support learning activities, providing assistance and encouragement to learners as required
- Observe and report on learner participation and progress, accurately recording observations and reporting to the teacher
- Support the evaluation of learning activities, providing feedback on the effectiveness of the activities
- Evaluate own practice in relation to supporting literacy, numeracy and ICT, identifying areas for improvement
Support the use of information and communication technology for teaching and learningReal unit · Focus Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the policy and procedures for the use of ICT for teaching and learning within the school or learning environment
- Prepare ICT resources for use in teaching and learning, ensuring they are appropriate and accessible for learners
- Support the use of ICT for teaching and learning, providing assistance to learners and teachers as required
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Prepare and maintain the learning environment
- Provide support for learning activities
- Support implementation of the early years curriculum
- Support individuals during therapy sessions
- Support pupils’ learning activities
- Use Information and Communication Technology to Support Pupils' Learning
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
Learners will gain an understanding of the main stages of child and young person development across physical, cognitive, social, and emotional domains. The unit also explores influences on development and the effects of transitions from birth to adolescence.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Focus Awards Level 2 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools (RQF)
23 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Focus Awards Limited.
- Child and young person development
- Communication and professional relationships with children, young people and adults
- Contribute to supporting bilingual learners
- Equality, diversity and inclusion in work with children and young people
- Help improve own and team practice in schools
- Invigilate tests and examinations
and 17 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.