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Functional Skills English

Part Time

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Availability & Details

English Functional Skills - Entry Level 1 HPY-ENGLE1/C01

Venue
Havant Campus

Type of study
Functional Skills

Dates
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Examination board
Pearson Education Ltd (Formerly EDEXCEL)

How to apply

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Overview

This course is designed to assess your current working level of English and help you progress from that level forward. You will work through a range of smaller stepping stone units to help grow your confidence with reading, writing, speaking and listening.

This will then give you the opportunity to work up the levels from Entry 1 to Level 2. You will be required to come in for an initial assessment before you can enrol on this course.

This course is for students who do not already have a grade C/4 or above in GCSE English Language. If you have already achieved a Level 2 Functional Skill in English it is suggested that you progress to a GCSE English Language Course.

(You will be required to come in for an initial assessment before you can enrol on this course)

The course covers:

Reading – Skimming, scanning and intensive reading including looking at purpose and structure
A range of formats, word sentence and text level including SPAG (spelling, punctuation and grammar)
Speaking and Listening – Including discussions and presentations

The course is run on the Havant campus. We have daytime and evening English courses, run in two semesters. The first is September-February and then February-July

We use a variety of teaching methods including:

  • Group work
  • Research
  • Kinaesthetic activities
  • 1:1 teaching
  • Using new technologies
  • Classroom based assessment work

In class and external based assessments.

This course is free to students who do not already have a grade C or 4 or above in GCSE English Language.

To a higher level Functional Skill or GCSE.


My experience at the college has been really good, it’s been really rewarding, all the lecturers were so lovely and supportive there’s no way I could have done it without them - the teaching has been outstanding.

Lucie Brooks, A Level student

My experience at the College was great, it’s very different to school, and I think it’s a good step to going to university. The support was amazing, I loved all of my teachers, they helped me through everything. The College is friendly and you will succeed.

Heidi Adamson Brattland, A Level student

I’m really happy and pleased with my grades. I really loved my time at the college, I have also made lots of friends, it’s a really nice place to be, I don’t want to leave.

Lauren Piper, A Level student