Essential Skills

Essential skills - learning about animationEssential and Key Skills are embedded across all subject areas and encompass all aspects of independent living including functional literacy, numeracy and ICT skills. 

We aim to develop the students' strengths and nurture the skills which are relevant to their day-to-day lives, ensuring that learning takes place in real life contexts within the College and local community.

Essential Skills are "the ability to read, write and speak in English, access ICT and to use mathematics at a level necessary to function and progress at work and in society".