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Social care Essential Skills Wales resources
  • Essential Skills Wales - Planning an afternoon tea party

    This is an Essential Skills Wales Application of Number resource.

    In this resource, you’ll be planning an afternoon tea party for the residents and family of a fictional care home. You’ll cover the following key learning outcomes:

    • using simple fractions
    • multiplication using decimals
    • creating pie charts.
  • Essential Skills Wales - Planning a room layout

    This is an Essential Skills Wales Application of Number resource.

    In this resource, you’ll helping to plan a wheelchair accessible room for a new resident in a fictional care home. You’ll cover the following key learning outcomes:

    • working out areas
    • working out perimeters
    • using proportion.
  • Essential Skills Wales - Measuring fluid intake and output

    This is an Essential Skills Wales Application of Number resource.

    In this resource, you’ll take on the role of a care home worker who has been asked to monitor an individual's fluid intake and output. You’ll cover the following key learning outcomes:

    • understanding measurements
    • mean, median and mode averages
    • creating graphs.
  • Essential Skills Wales - Activity: Audrey (adults)

    This is an Essential Skills Wales Communications resources.

    In this resource you’ll look at a case study about Audrey who lives in a fictional adult care home 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.
  • Essential Skills Wales - Reading and understanding (health and social care)

    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.
  • Essential Skills Wales - Speaking and listening (health and social care)

    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.
  • Essential Skills Wales - Writing (health and social care)

    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.
  • Essential Skills Wales - Planning a shopping trip

    This is an Essential Skills Wales Application of Number resource.

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

    • understanding time
    • multiplication and division
    • adding and subtraction
  • Essential Skills Wales - Working out pay, national insurance and tax contributions

    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