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English Functional Skills

Various Levels

English Functional Skills

Availability & Details

Functional Skills English DPY-ENGLNO/P01

Venue
Other Venue

Type of study
Functional Skills

Dates
Various ()

Fees
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Overview

Course Start Dates:

Alton (Day and Eve): September and February,

Havant (Day and Eve): September, January, February and April,

Leigh Park Learning Centre (Day): September, January and April (Pre-Entry English).

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.

Please contact our Admissions Team on 023 9387 9999 to arrange your initial assessment before applying.

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

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
  • Writing – a range of formats, word sentence and text level including SPAG (spelling, punction and grammar)
  • Speaking and listening – including discussions and presentations

The course is run on all campuses. We have daytime and evening English courses, run in two semesters. The first is September-February and then February-June.

We use a variety of teaching methods including:

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

In class and external assessment.

To a higher level Functional Skill or GCSE.


“I owe the staff a lot and I wouldn't be where I am today without them.”

Tom Andrews, A Level Student

The teaching and support was really great, the quality was really great, all the teachers really care about your education as well as your wellbeing, they take everything into consideration and they’re great.

Katie Whittingham, A Level student

The teaching and support was absolutely brilliant, they couldn’t have done anything more or anything better, if I had any questions my lecturers would always stay behind to help me if I needed it and their emails were always open, it was second to none. This college is the best by far.

Amber Searle, BTEC student