Early years and childcare Essential Skills Wales resources

This is an Essential Skills Wales Application of Number resource.

This resource will help you calculate your weekly, monthly, and yearly earnings, along with the taxes you may owe. You'll cover the following key learning outcomes:

• addition and subtraction
• multiplication and division
• percentages and decimals

This is an Essential Skills Wales Application of Number resource.

In this resource you’ll be helping to plan a nursery trip to the zoo. You’ll cover the following key learning outcomes:

• understanding time
• multiplication and division
• adding and subtraction.

This is an Essential Skills Wales Application of Number resource.

In this resource, you’ll take on the role of a nursery practitioner who has been asked to monitor a child’s temperature. You’ll cover the following key learning outcomes:

• understanding measurements
• mean, median and mode averages
• creating graphs.

This is an Essential Skills Wales Application of Number resource.

In this resource, you’ll be planning a teddy bear’s picnic for the children in a fictional day nursery. You’ll cover the following key learning outcomes:

• use simple fractions
• multiplication using decimals
• creating pie charts

This is an Essential Skill Wales Application of Number resource.

In this resource, you’ll helping to plan a mud kitchen in a fictional day nursery setting. You’ll cover the following key learning outcomes:

• working out areas
• working out perimeters
• using proportion.

This is an Essential Skills Wales Communication resource.

In this resource you’ll explore a number of documents to be able to identify:

• purpose
• structural features
• main points and ideas.

This is an Essential Skills Wales Communication resource.

In this resource you’ll explore how to:

• prepare for discussions
• present information and ideas
• listen and respond.

This is an Essential Skills Wales Communication resource.

In this resource you’ll explore how to:

• review documents for spelling, grammar and punctuation
• plan and draft writing
• identify the difference between fact, opinion and judgement

This is an Essential Skills Wales Communication resource.

In this resource you’ll look at a case study about Poppy and Jack who attend a fictional day nursery and use the information to explore how to:

• write clear effective handover notes
• draft notes for a supervision session
• research and prepare for a presentation
• create different documents for different audiences.