Functional Skills English & Maths Information Day Nottingham

About the Information Day

Futures can offer you the chance to increase your skills and gain essential certificates needed to help secure employment. Futures will work with you to design a bespoke maths or English programme to help tackle your areas for development based on a comprehensive assessment. We offer courses from Entry Level 3 to Level 2 (GCSE Equivalent) widely recognised by employers and further education providers.

This session will last approximately 2 hours and includes:

A 30 minute presentation giving you an overview of the qualifications and course timetable.
Visiting the training centre and the opportunity to ask any questions
Professional Information, Advice and Guidance along with a short initial assessment in maths, English and IT to ensure you are going onto the right level qualification.

About the course

Start date: Tuesday 24th/ Tuesday 31st March 2020
Duration: 15 days
Qualifications: City & Guilds certificate in maths at L2 or City & Guilds certificate in English at L1

Our English Functional Skills courses at all levels cover the following key topics:

Improving spelling skills.
Exploring the purpose of text.
Discussions leading to speaking and listening assessments.
Locating information, reading practice and skim, scan and detail reading techniques.
Improving spelling skills.
Focusing on sentence structure and learning how to plan and write creatively.

Our maths Functional Skills courses at all levels cover the following key topics:

Ratio – Introduction, direct proportion, simplifying and sharing
Percentages
Money – salaries and tax
Fractions
Perimeter, Area and Volume – including complex shapes
Scale – use of maps
Averages – extract and present data
Probability

Who Can Attend

Everyone is welcome to attend this information day but please be aware this course will be of Level 2 (maths) or L1 (English) candidates only.

You can attend this course if you:

Are aged 19 years old or over (must have turned 19 by 31st August 2019)
Have lived in the UK or a European Union (EU) / European Economic Area (EEA) Member state for three years or more or be a British / EU Citizen, or Individuals or Asylum Seekers with certain types of immigration status *
Are actively seeking employment and claiming an unemployment benefit of either: Universal Credit, Job Seekers Allowance, Employment Support Allowance (WRAG) or Income Support **
OR Must be earning under £16,009.50 annual gross salary and be able to commit to the course.

*Please note this list is not exclusive. Please contact us for further details on eligibility criteria.

** Other state benefits may be accepted, please contact us for further information

Get in touch

Register your interest
Call 0345 266 9799
Speak to your Job Centre Plus Work Coach
Email referral@futuresforbusiness.com

Book your place today!

Meet the trainer

We have many trainers for function skills, here is one of your maths specialists;

Sara Allsopp

Pre-Employment Coach

I knew from the age of 5 that I wanted to be a primary school teacher but after spending four years at University training to do this, I realised that actually it wasn’t for me! Following this I struggled to find a direction and had a couple of different office jobs while I tried to work out what to do with my life! It wasn’t until I did some volunteering at my local community centre that I realised I loved working with adults and have never looked back since. Teaching really is the best job in the world – there is nothing like it –and I can’t put into words how rewarding it is to see people gaining new skills and, more importantly, building their confidence and belief in themselves and realising that they can do it! Outside of work I enjoy reading, spending time with my family and planning my next weekend away!