Gateway Qualifications
    Entry Level
    QN: 600/8911/8
    Curriculum Active

    Gateway Qualifications Entry Level Award In Progression (Entry 3)

    Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by Gateway Qualifications. Classified as a Other Vocational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 2090 hours.

    Qualification Level
    Entry Level
    Awarding Body
    Gateway Qualifications
    Syllabus Units
    86 Units
    Guided Hours
    2090 hrs
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    Course Syllabus & Study Modules

    Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.

    1

    Alcohol and Drug Misuse Awareness

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know the differences between some types of drugs and alcoholic drinks.
    • Understand the causes of alcohol and/or drug mis
    • Know the physical and/or psychological effects of drug and alcohol mis
    • Understand the implications of drug and/or alcohol mis
    • use on others.
    • Understand health issues associated with drug and alcohol mis
    • Know about the effects of withdrawing from drugs and/or alcohol.
    • Know about agencies offering help and information.
    2

    Aspects of Citizenship

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand that individuals have rights and responsibilities.
    • Understand equal opportunity issues in relation to current legislation.
    • Understand the main functions of local and national government.
    • Know public services available in own local community.
    3

    Assist with Catching and Restraining a Small Animal

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to catch and restrain a small animal
    4

    Basic Craft Skills

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about health and safety requirements.
    • Be able to use basic craft tools and materials.
    • Be able to plan for craft activity.
    • Be able to carry out craft activity.
    • Be able to reflect on own work.
    5

    British values and keeping safe from radicalisation

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about democracy.2.
    • Know about the rule of law.3.
    • Know about individual liberty.
    • Know about mutual respect and tolerance.
    • Know about extremism.
    • Know about keeping safe from radicalisation.
    6

    Budgeting

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about the difference between essential and non-essential spending
    • Know about personal budgets
    7

    Career Planning

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to find out about different career options.2.
    • Be able to assess career options.3.
    • Be able to plan goals for future career.
    8

    Check that a Small Animal is Healthy

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to restrain a small animal
    • Know the signs of good health in a small animal
    9

    Checking and Maintaining Fluid Levels on a Car

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to use appropriate materials and equipment
    • Be able to maintain fluid levels in a car engine
    10

    Clothing Design

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about clothing design.
    • Be able to follow a design brief.
    11

    Communication Skills for Group and Teamwork

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about the roles of group members
    • Be able to communicate verbally with group members
    • Know the importance of listening to others within group situations
    • Be able to recognise others’ rights to communicate within a group situation
    • Be able to recognise the importance of co-operation when working in group situations
    • Be able to recognise praise and constructive criticism
    • Know about relationships within own team
    12

    Communication Skills for Work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Use written communication in a work context.2.
    • Use oral communication in a work context.
    13

    Community environment project

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to select a focus for a community project.
    • Be able to communicate the benefits of engaging in a community environment project.
    • Be able to plan a community environment project.
    • Be able to participate in a community environment project.
    • Be able to review a community environment project.
    14

    Customer service skills

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about good customer service.2.
    • Be able to interact with customers.3.
    • Be able to perform customer service tasks.
    15

    Design and imaging software

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • DISE:1 Obtain and insert information for designs or images, DISE:2 Use design and imaging software tools to manipulate and edit drawings or images
    16

    Desktop publishing software

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • DTPE:1 Use appropriate designs and page layouts for a publication, DTPE:2 Input text and other information into a publication, DTPE:3 Use desktop publishing software techniques to edit and format a publication
    17

    Developing a Personal Learning Programme

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about the relevance of previous skills and experience for further learning
    • Be able to seek guidance and advice to identify learning options
    • Know about the purpose and value of discussing own learning programme
    • Be able to review progress towards own learning goal
    18

    Developing Confidence Working With Animals

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to follow relevant health and safety rules when handling animals.
    • Know how to deal with animal behaviour.
    • Be able to handle animals.
    19

    Developing Skills for Gaining Employment

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to identify possible employment options.
    • Be able to complete an application form.
    • Be able to create a straightforward Curriculum Vitae (CV).
    • Understand how to conduct self at interview.
    • Be able to locate job and training opportunities in a local area.
    • Be able to plan for future career development.
    20

    Developing Skills for Listening to Children

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the value and benefits of listening to children.
    • Be able to listen without interrupting.
    • Understand the importance of acknowledging children's feelings and needs.
    • Know how to ask appropriate questions when listening to children.
    21

    Digital Marketing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about product descriptions for digital marketing.
    • Know about methods used for digital marketing.
    • Be able to write a product description.
    22

    Digital Skills for Everyday Life

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to use digital skills to handle information outside of the work environment.2.
    • Be able to create and edit digital content outside of the work environment.3.
    • Be able to use digital skills to communicate outside of the work environment.4.
    • Be able to go online and use digital devices safely and responsibly outside of the work environment.5.
    • Be able to respond to technical problems outside of the work environment.
    23

    Digital Skills for Work

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to use digital skills to handle work-related information.2.
    • Be able to create and edit digital content for work-related purposes.3.
    • Be able to use digital skills to communicate in a work context.4.
    • Be able to work online and use digital devices safely and responsibly in a work context.5.
    • Be able to respond to technical problems.
    24

    Domestic energy efficiency

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about domestic energy use.
    • Know about energy efficiency.
    • Know the benefits of domestic energy efficiency.
    • Know how householders can improve domestic energy efficiency.
    25

    E-Safety

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about e-safety.
    • Know about communicating using technology.
    • Know how to keep safe when communicating on-line.
    • Know about on-line behaviour.
    • Know regulations relating to on-line communication.
    • Know about symbols for video games and mobile applications.
    26

    Email Skills

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to use email software tools to send and compose messages
    • Be able to manage incoming email
    • Know about common problems when using email
    27

    Engage in Discussion

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to engage in discussion to reach a shared understanding of a topic.
    28

    Environmental awareness

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know how and why the climate is changing.
    • Know about the effects of climate change on plants, animals and people.
    • Know about the carbon footprint.
    • Know how individuals and businesses can reduce their own carbon footprint.
    29

    Exercise as Part of a Healthy Lifestyle

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know how sport can contribute to a healthy lifestyle.
    • Know factors that can be combined with exercise to contribute to a healthy lifestyle.
    • Be able to assess the effect of exercise on own health.
    30

    Exploring and Presenting Enterprise Ideas

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to discuss ideas for an enterprise activity.2.
    • Be able to select an enterprise idea.3.
    • Be able to present an idea for an enterprise activity to others.
    31

    Food Safety and Storage

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know basic hygiene rules
    • Know how to store different types of food
    • Know when food should be discarded
    32

    Garden Horticulture Skills

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about things that grow in a garden or allotment
    • Be able to propagate plants
    • Be able to prepare an outside growing bed
    • Be able to grow and care for plants
    33

    Garden Maintenance Skills

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about tools and equipment needed for garden maintenance
    • Be able to maintain a garden
    • Know the importance of lawn maintenance
    • Know about the correct methods of garden waste disposal
    34

    Groom a Small Animal

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to groom a small animal
    35

    Health and Safety in the Workplace

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about roles and responsibilities for health and safety in the workplace.2.
    • Know how to identify and control risks from hazards in the workplace.3.
    • Know procedures for responding to accidents and incidents in the workplace.
    36

    Improving sustainability in the workplace

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to identify an area of a business in need of improvement in terms of sustainability.
    • Be able to identify processes, practices or resources to support improvement in terms of sustainability.
    • Be able to develop and present a project plan to support improvement in terms of sustainability.
    37

    Individual rights and responsibilities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand that they have individual rights and responsibilities
    38

    Introduction to Mixed Media in 2D

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to use materials, equipment and techniques to produce 2D art work.
    • Be able to use formal art and design elements to produce 2D art work.
    • Work safely with others in a workshop environment.
    • Be able to review own 2D art work.
    39

    Introduction to Road Safety

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know how to cross a road safely.
    • Be able to walk to a specified destination.
    40

    Listen and Respond

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to listen and respond in verbal exchanges.
    41

    Living in the Community

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know what a community is
    • Know about community facilities of interest to self
    • Know how an individual can contribute to a community
    42

    Making Calculations

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to add and subtract whole numbers.
    • Be able to multiply and divide whole numbers.
    • Be able to solve problems with and without a calculator.
    43

    Making Choices

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about the options available to them.
    • Be able to seek support to help them make a choice.
    • Be able to take relevant factors into account when making choices.
    • Be able to select the most appropriate option.
    • Know the consequences of their choices.
    44

    Making the Most of Work Placement

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to prepare for a work placement.2.
    • Be able to set goals for a work placement.3.
    • Be able to review a work placement.
    45

    Managing Money

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about income and expenditure.
    • Know about sources of help in managing money.
    46

    Managing Social Relationships

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to interact with others in familiar social situations
    • Demonstrate how to interact with others in familiar social situations
    47

    Mental Wellbeing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand what is meant by 'mental health'.
    • Understand how to look after own mental wellbeing.
    • Understand how to support friends and family with mental health difficulties.
    • Know about support for mental ill-health.
    48

    Money, Time and Temperature

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to work with money.
    • Be able to work with time.
    • Be able to work with temperature.
    49

    Needle/Textile Crafts

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about equipment and materials used in needle/textile crafts.
    • Be able to use needle/textile craft equipment.
    • Be able to complete tasks in needle/textile crafts.
    • Be able to work safely.
    • Review own needle/textile work.
    50

    Negotiation Skills

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to communicate own wants, needs and views to others.2.
    • Be able to respond to the objections or queries of others.3.
    • Be able to discuss the wants, needs or views of others.4.
    • Be able to suggest ways forward at the end of a negotiation process.
    51

    Personal Development

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about his/her strengths and weaknesses.
    • Know how to set personal goals.
    52

    Planning And Participating In Short Walks

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to plan a walk.
    • Know about undertaking a walk.
    • Be able to participate in at least two walks.
    • Know how to maintain records.
    53

    Plant Propagation Skills

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to recognise different forms of embryo plants
    • Know about potential sources of embryo plants
    • Know about the need to plant appropriately
    54

    Preparation for Work Experience

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the structure and purpose of the organisation.
    • Understand employers’/trainers’ expectations.
    55

    Presentation software

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • PSE:1 Input and combine text and other information within presentation slides, PSE:2 Use presentation software tools to structure, edit and format slides, PSE:3 Prepare slides for presentation
    56

    Read for Information

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to read and obtain information from everyday sources.
    • Be able to use a dictionary to obtain information.
    57

    Read for Purpose and Meaning

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to read and understand texts.
    • Be able to use simple reading strategies to support understanding.
    58

    Recognising Own Achievements

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know what constitutes achievement in relation to their own targets or goals.
    • Communicate about their achievements.
    59

    Recognising Small Animals

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to recognise species of small animals.
    • Be able to recognise parts of the body between animal species.
    • Understand how animals move.
    60

    Rights and Responsibilities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about their rights.
    • Know about their responsibilities.
    • Know about the relationship between rights and responsibilities.
    61

    Skills for Employability

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the need for Health and Safety procedures at work.
    • Be able to participate in a task in a work-simulated environment.
    • Be able to work as part of a team.
    • Know social skills needed for work.
    62

    Skills for Shopping

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know how to plan a visit to a local shop
    • Be able to buy items
    • Know how to conduct self when on a shopping trip
    63

    Speak to Communicate

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to speak to communicate information, feelings and opinions.
    64

    Spreadsheet software

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • SSE:1 Enter and edit numerical and other information using spreadsheets, SSE:2 Use appropriate formulas and tools to summarise and display spreadsheet information, SSE:3 Use appropriate tools and techniques to present spreadsheet information effectively
    65

    Sustainability

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know what sustainability means.
    • Know how human activity is threatening.
    • Know how a business or sector is working towards achieving sustainability.
    66

    Take Part in an Activity

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to participate in an activity
    67

    Taking personal responsibility for the environment

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to research ways individuals can help fight climate change.2.
    • Be able to identify ways to reduce own negative impact on the environment.3.
    • Be able to implement actions or changes to reduce their negative impact on the environment.
    • Be able to reflect on how effectively they have been reducing their negative impact on the environment.
    68

    The Internet and World Wide Web

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • IWWE:1 Understand the basics of the Internet, IWWE:2 Understand the basics of the World Wide Web, IWWE:3 Understand the basics of using e-mail, IWWE:4 Understand other methods of communicating on the Internet
    69

    The Local Community

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know that there are a variety of groups of people within the local community
    • Know about the importance of active participation in the local community
    70

    Time Management

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to manage their time while working or studying.2.
    • Be able to review their time management.
    71

    Understanding Diversity In Society

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the meaning of the term ‘diversity’.
    • Understand diverse groups and practices.
    • Know some similarities between groups.
    • Know some of the consequences of prejudice and discrimination.
    • Know about the contributions of diverse groups to society.
    72

    Understanding Self And Others

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand own needs and wishes in different contexts.
    • Understand personal health issues.
    • Be able to interact with others.
    • Understand personal relationships.
    73

    Use and Maintain Garden Tools

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know a range of hand tools used in gardening
    • Be able to maintain a range of garden hand tools
    • Be able to use a range of garden hand tools
    • Understand basic Health and Safety in the use and transportation of hand tools
    74

    Using and Communicating Data

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to extract information.
    • Be able to collect and record information.
    • Be able to organise and present information so it makes sense to others.
    75

    Using Size, Shape and Measures

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to read
    • measure, estimate and compare length.
    • measure, estimate and compare weight.
    • measure, estimate and compare capacity.
    • Know about shape, positional vocabulary and space.
    76

    Using the Internet

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • INTE:1 Connect to the Internet, INTE:2 Use browser software to navigate webpages, INTE:3 Use browser tools to search for information from the Internet and the world-wide web or an intranet, INTE:4 Use browser software to communicate information online, INTE:5 Follow and understand the need for safety and security practices when working online
    77

    Using Whole Numbers, Decimals, Fractions and Percentages

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to work with whole numbers.
    • Be able to work with fractions.
    • Be able to work with percentages.
    • Be able to work with decimals.
    78

    Volunteering

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know what voluntary organisations are
    • Know how to identify current voluntary positions available
    • Know about the steps and/or processes necessary to become a volunteer
    • Know how to apply for a voluntary position
    79

    Word processing software

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • WPE:1 Input text and edit word processing documents, WPE:2 Structure information within word processing documents, WPE:3 Use word processing software tools to format and present documents
    80

    Work Experience

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about the organisation where work experience will take place
    • Know about own role within organisation during a work experience placement
    • Be able to maintain acceptable conventions in the workplace during a work experience placement
    • Be able to comply with safe working practices in the work environment during a work experience placement
    • Be able to carry out tasks as requested during a work experience placement
    81

    Working in a Team

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to plan as part of a team.2.
    • Be able to work positively as a member of a team.3.
    • Be able to review own performance as a member of a team.
    82

    Working Safely

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to identify risks and hazards in a work environment.2.
    • Be able to reduce risk of harm to self or others.3.
    • Be able to deal with low-risk hazards in the workplace environment.
    83

    Working with Colleagues

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to work positively with colleagues.
    84

    Write Accurately

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to write using correct basic grammar.
    • Be able to write using correct basic spelling and punctuation.
    • Be able to proofread own writing.
    85

    Write to Communicate

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to write to communicate.
    86

    Young Parenthood

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know about the role of a young parent
    • Know about the limitations and opportunities that young parenthood presents
    • Know how to make an action plan for being a young parent

    Regulatory & Verification Details

    Qualification Number (QN)
    600/8911/8
    Regulated Status
    Available to learners
    Awarding Body
    Gateway Qualifications
    Qualification Type
    Other Vocational Qualification
    Operational Start
    May 2013

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