We offer an extensive range of engaging resource that are proven to educate learners of various ages and abilities. Our catalogue of workbooks cover an array of subjects including Functional Skills, Maths, English, Digital Skills, Retail, Employability, Social Development and Tutorials.
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We offer an extensive range of engaging resource that are proven to educate learners of various ages and abilities. Our catalogue of workbooks cover an array of subjects including Functional Skills, Maths, English, Digital Skills, Retail, Employability, Social Development and Tutorials.
Feedback is Key and we value your positive comments and constructive criticism. Post a review and we will send you another singular resource of your choice for FREE! Contact us at SmartbooksEd@outlook.com.
These workbooks have been designed and proven to educate learners on a variety of World Foods and recipes while promoting creativity and individuality.
Feedback is Key and we value your positive comments and constructive criticism. Post a review and we will send you another singular resource of your choice for FREE!
This resource is available to download as a PDF file. Word versions are available and feel free to message me directly for these formats at SmartbooksEd@outlook.com.
This particular Bundle of work includes a selection of engaging theory tasks that will enable them to gain new knowledge of Pizza, Fajitas & Cottage Pie. Learners will then have the opportunity to plan, prepare and follow a each recipe method. They will finally self-assess their performance, receive feedback from an observer and set targets as part of their overall evaluation.
Each has different tasks that require learners to demonstrate numerous Functional skills:
Fajitas
What is Fajita? - Learners to choose the right word to complete the correct description.
Where did the Fajitas come from? - Reading comprehension with a quiz. (be aware of sensitive vegetarians in the group)
Modern Day Fajitas! - Learners to work in pairs to investigate alternative ingredients (includes vegan & Vegetarians)
Health and Safety - A task that enables learners to highlight health and safety awareness in the Kitchen.
What will you need? - A ‘letter fill’ activity revealing the ingredients for the practical element.
Over to you - Practical Element, learners will pair up to follow a method and cook fajitas using various ingredients supplied.
Pizza
What is Pizza - Introductory small writing task that promotes group discussion.
History of the Pizza - A true and False Quiz that will educate learners on facts of this world foods origin (answers on the last page)
Types of Pizza - An activity that requires the learner to match up ingredients with the correct pizza name (Italian to English).
The Perfect Pizza - Learners to work in pairs to investigate alternative ingredients and how they can accommodate lactose and wheat intolerances.
Health and Safety - A task that enables learners to highlight health, hygiene and safety awareness in the Kitchen.
What will you need? - An embedded maths activity where learners have to calculate the right amounts of ingredients depending on how many pizzas they would have to make.
Over to you - Practical Element, learners will pair up to follow a method and cook a Margherita pizza using various ingredients supplied.
Cottage Pie
Lets Start with a Quiz - Introductory Multiple choice and True & False quiz covering history and facts around the Cottage Pie.
What can be used - Being a very versatile dish this allows learners to include the basic and less common ingredients. They can discuss different tastes, likes an dislikes.
Traditional British foods - An activity that requires the learners to unscramble anagrams of various British foods and brainstorm any others they are familiar with.
The Perfect Cottage Pie - Learners to work in pairs to investigate alternative ingredients and how they can accommodate lactose and wheat intolerances.
Health and Safety - A task that enables learners to highlight health, hygiene and safety awareness in the Kitchen.
How to make a Cottage pie (method) - A problem solving task where learners have to rearrange the steps of making a Cottage pie and correctly paste them on to the method they will be using later.
Over to you - Practical Element, learners will pair up to follow a method and cook a Traditional Cottage Pie using various ingredients supplied.
These worksheets have been designed and proven to educate learners on a variety of world foods and recipes while promoting creativity and individuality.
This particular unit of work includes a selection of engaging theory tasks (see below) that will enable them to gain new knowledge of this popular cuisine. Learners will then have the opportunity to plan, prepare and follow a Cottage Pie recipe and method. They will finally self-assess their performance, receive feedback from an observer and set targets as part of their overall evaluation.
The 8 tasks are set as follows:
Lets Start with a Quiz - Introductory Multiple choice and True & False quiz covering history and facts around the Cottage Pie.
What can be used - Being a very versatile dish this allows learners to include the basic and less common ingredients. They can discuss different tastes, likes an dislikes.
Traditional British foods - An activity that requires the learners to unscramble anagrams of various British foods and brainstorm any others they are familiar with.
The Perfect Cottage Pie - Learners to work in pairs to investigate alternative ingredients and how they can accommodate lactose and wheat intolerances.
Health and Safety - A task that enables learners to highlight health, hygiene and safety awareness in the Kitchen.
How to make a Cottage pie (method) - A problem solving task where learners have to rearrange the steps of making a Cottage pie and correctly paste them on to the method they will be using later.
Over to you - Practical Element, learners will pair up to follow a method and cook a Traditional Cottage Pie using various ingredients supplied.
Self-assessment - A written evaluation, including guided questioning. Photographs taken during practical can be attached.
Witness Statement - Tutor/Teacher to feedback and promote Target setting in areas needing improvement i.e confidence, communication, timing, focus etc.
Feedback is Key and we value your positive comments and constructive criticism. Post a review and we will send you another singular resource of your choice for FREE!
This resource is available to download as a PDF file. Word versions are available and feel free to message me directly for these formats at SmartbooksEd@outlook.com.
This 4 Workbook Bundle Pack has been designed and proven to challenge and assess learners understanding of the knowledge required of them to achieve a Functional Skills Maths Certificate at Entry level.
The workbooks include various tasks and activities that to suit learners of all ages and varied abilities in preparing them for their up and coming assessment. The resources have been very successful with keys stage 1 and 2 and with SEN/LLDD learners of all ages.
These particular workbooks primarily focus on 4 areas, Addition, Subtraction Multiplication and Division and can be easily adapted to stretch abilities of learners working at a higher level. Word versions are available and feel free to message me directly for these formats at SmartbooksED@outlook.com
The Addition installment includes:
Dominoes Challenge
Dominoes (Test your friends)
Roll the dice!
Family Picnic & Quiz
Piggy Pairs
Numbers Game
Against the clock
Squares Count
Pyramid Puzzle (easy, Medium, Hard)
Colour your own sums
Counting the Pennies
Holiday Money
Number Line Counting
Let’s use Tally (Farmyard Task)
Time for Bingo (Bingo & Caller cards included)
and the Subtraction workbook includes:
Difference Dots
Fruit & Vet Sale
Less than 2 minutes
Saturday Night Take Away
Subtraction Squares (Easy - Medium - Hard)
The Washing Line
Lets Go Bowling
Lets Bowl Game
Subtraction in Space (Easy - Medium - Hard)
Dice Cream Game
Real Life Sums
Double Decker Bus
Time For Bingo
The Multiplication workbook includes:
Coloured Table and Sums (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
King Fred the frog (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
Mum’s shopping trip (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
A day in the garden (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
Right or Wrong (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
Who has the Answer - A Card game that the whole group can play involving learner listening and calling out the correct answer.
The Division Workbook includes:
What is Division (intro)
Coloured bookmarks to use as revision
Sums (Easy, Trickier and More Difficult)
Joe and Beth Balloon trivia
Animal Division problems (Easy and More difficult)
Joe’s Smudged Homework
Sum Search
I Have Who Has (a 30 card Division based Card game where each learner try not to break the chain)
Feedback is Key and we value your positive comments and constructive criticism. Post a review and we will send you another singular resource of your choice for FREE! Just Contact us at SmartbooksEd@outlook.com.
These worksheets have been designed and proven to educate learners on a variety of world foods and recipes while promoting creativity and individuality.
This particular unit of work includes a selection of engaging theory tasks (see below) that will enable them to gain new knowledge of this popular cuisine. Learners will then have the opportunity to plan, prepare and follow a Pizza recipe and method. They will finally self-assess their performance, receive feedback from an observer and set targets as part of their overall evaluation.
The 8 tasks are set as follows:
What is Pizza - Introductory small writing task that promotes group discussion.
History of the Pizza - A true and False Quiz that will educate learners on facts of this world foods origin (answers on the last page)
Types of Pizza - An activity that requires the learner to match up ingredients with the correct pizza name (Italian to English).
The Perfect Pizza - Learners to work in pairs to investigate alternative ingredients and how they can accommodate lactose and wheat intolerances.
Health and Safety - A task that enables learners to highlight health, hygiene and safety awareness in the Kitchen.
What will you need? - An embedded maths activity where learners have to calculate the right amounts of ingredients depending on how many pizzas they would have to make.
Over to you - Practical Element, learners will pair up to follow a method and cook a Margherita pizza using various ingredients supplied.
Self-assessment - A written evaluation, including guided questioning. Photographs taken during practical can be attached.
Witness Statement - Tutor/Teacher to feedback and promote Target setting in areas needing improvement i.e confidence, communication, timing, focus etc.
Feedback is Key and we value your positive comments and constructive criticism. Post a review and we will send you another singular resource of your choice for FREE!
This resource is available to download as a PDF file. Word versions are available and feel free to message me directly for these formats at SmartbooksEd@outlook.com.
These workbooks have been designed to subtly embed the valuable functional skills learners required to get the most out of education, work and everyday life and to help them function more confidently, effectively and independently.
Each resource has been proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge as well as promoting creativity and individuality.
This particular instalment can be used effectively in Tutorials or Maths sessions and includes a Fictional TV guide. Leaners will study the schedule and then attempt to answer a series of questions related to the information shown. Learners will then take part in a discussion based on their own TV programme choices. They will create their own Perfect TV schedule, produce questions related to this new timetable and then test their peers.
Feedback is Key and we value your positive comments and constructive criticism. Post a review and we will send you another singular resource at the same value of your choice for FREE!
This resource is available to download as a PDF file. Word versions are available and feel free to message me directly for these formats at SmartbooksED@outlook.com
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These worksheets have been designed and proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge, creativity, individuality and subtly embed valuable functional skills required for assessment. The resource can be used effectively in Tutorials or Maths sessions.
These particular worksheets focus on investigating number and frequency using a tube of Smarties. Learners will gather data and produce a bar chart showing their findings. Learners will then take part in a speaking and listening task that requires them to extract data from other groups allowing them to be able to produce a second chart and accurately present this collective data.
Feedback is Key and we value your positive comments and constructive criticism. Post a review and we will send you another singular resource at the same value of your choice for FREE!
This resource is available to download as a PDF file. Word versions are available and feel free to message me directly for these formats at SmartbooksED@outlook.com
These worksheets have been designed to subtly embed the valuable functional skills learners required to get the most out of education, work and everyday life and to help them function more confidently, effectively and independently. They can be used effectively in Tutorials or Maths sessions.
Each resource has been proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge as well as promoting creativity and individuality.
This Bundle Includes the following 10 Resources
IT COULD BE YOU!
Each has won the lottery and has £1,000,000 to spend.
Task 1 requires learners to decide on how much of their winnings they would gift, if any, to a charity and/or family and friends. This offers an effective platform for discussion around charities, generosity and their individual value of money.
Task two requires the learner to select from a list of items and how they would spend the remaining money. They will write reasons for their choices and share with the rest of the group, which is a great opportunity for speaking and listening and finding common interests within the group.
Task Three asks the learners to complete a shopping list and to include costs and keep a running total of their remaining balance.
The final objective is to get as close to spending 1,000,000 as possible. Calculator use is down to the discretion of the Tutor and the ability of learners.
WHATS ON THE BOX
Learners will work with a Fictional TV guide.
They will study the schedule and then attempt to answer a series of questions related to the information shown. They will then take part in a discussion based on their own favourite TV programme choices. They will create their own Perfect TV schedule, produce questions related to this new timetable and then test their peers.
SMARTIES INVESTIGATION
Learner focus on investigating number and frequency using a tube of Smarties.
Their task is to gather data and produce a bar chart showing their findings.
Learners will then take part in a speaking and listening task that requires them to extract data from other groups allowing them to be able to produce a second chart and accurately present this collective data.
World Records
This first resourse focuses on ‘Records set around the World’. Learners are tasked with estimating various measurements from the tallest to the heaviest, longest to shortest etc. They are then challenged to convert those amounts to an alternative form of measurement i.e. litre to pints, miles to Kilometres etc
Time for a Holiday
The second resouces starts with a warm up activity and tests the learner’s knowledge of Seaside towns in the UK and their locations. Great task to use on a SMART Board or in separate groups on A3 paper.
It then requires them to study a series of weather graphes and answer questions to confirm they are able to read and extract the correct information.
The final task involves budgeting a holiday to Newquay using a fictional scenario and an allowance of £650.
Possible Extension Tasks
Task 1 - Ask learners to find the location of other towns and activities.
Task 2 - Extend questions to work out the Mean, Mode and Median.
Task 3 - Limit Budget or change the scenario to make it more challenging.
Reading Timetables
This 3rd resource focuses on ‘Reading Timetables’. Learners are tasked with studying 3 examples, a Bus Timetable, a Swimming Pool Timetable and a College Session Timetable and then extracting the information required to answer the set questions and confirm understanding.
The questions can be answered individually or collectively by cutting them into cards. The larger A3 versions (included) can be displayed and the group can carousel around the room. Alternatively, the questions could be called out by the tutor for a more active learning experience. Lots of scope for interpretation, the resources also included some blank question sheets so learners can create some peer to peer questioning.
The Addition Workbook includes:
Dominoes Challenge
Dominoes (Test your friends)
Roll the dice!
Family Picnic & Quiz
Piggy Pairs
Numbers Game
Against the clock
Squares Count
Pyramid Puzzle (easy, Medium, Hard)
Colour your own sums
Counting the Pennies
Holiday Money
Number Line Counting
Let’s use Tally (Farmyard Task)
Time for Bingo (Bingo & Caller cards included)
he Subtraction workbook includes:
Difference Dots
Fruit & Vet Sale
Less than 2 minutes
Saturday Night Take Away
Subtraction Squares (Easy - Medium - Hard)
The Washing Line
Lets Go Bowling
Lets Bowl Game
Subtraction in Space (Easy - Medium - Hard)
Dice Cream Game
Real Life Sums
Double Decker Bus
Time For Bingo
The Multiplication workbook includes:
Coloured Table and Sums (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
King Fred the frog (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
Mum’s shopping trip (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
A day in the garden (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
Right or Wrong (Easy, Harder and Hardest)
Who has the Answer - A Card game that the whole group can play involving learner listening and calling out the correct answer.
The Division Workbook includes:
What is Division (intro)
Coloured bookmarks to use as revision
Sums (Easy, Trickier and More Difficult)
Joe and Beth Balloon trivia
Animal Division problems (Easy and More difficult)
Joe’s Smudged Homework
Sum Search
I Have Who Has (a 30 card Division based Card game where each learner try not to break the chain)
Feedback is Key and we value your positive comments and constructive criticism. Post a review and we will send you another singular resource at the same value of your choice for FREE!
This resource is available to download as a PDF file. Word versions are available and feel free to message me directly for these formats at SmartbooksED@outlook.com
This 2 Workbook Bundle Pack has been designed and proven to challenge and assess learners understanding of the knowledge required of them to achieve a Functional Skills Maths Certificate at Entry level.
The workbooks include various tasks and activities that to suit learners of all ages and varied abilities in preparing them for their up and coming assessment. The resources have been very successful with keys stage 1 and 2 and with SEN/LLDD learners of all ages.
These particular workbook primarily focus on ‘addition’ and ‘Subtraction’ and can be easily adapted as available to download as a PDF file to stretch abilities of learners working at a higher level. Word versions are available just message me for these formats.
The Addition instalment includes:
Dominoes Challenge
Dominoes (Test your friends)
Roll the dice!
Family Picnic & Quiz
Piggy Pairs
Numbers Game
Against the clock
Squares Count
Pyramid Puzzle (easy, Medium, Hard)
Colour your own sums
Counting the Pennies
Holiday Money
Number Line Counting
Let’s use Tally (Farmyard Task)
Time for Bingo (Bingo & Caller cards included)
and the Subtraction workbook includes:
Difference Dots
Fruit & Vet Sale
Less than 2 minutes
Saturday Night Take Away
Subtraction Squares (Easy - Medium - Hard)
The Washing Line
Lets Go Bowling
Lets Bowl Game
Subtraction in Space (Easy - Medium - Hard)
Dice Cream Game
Real Life Sums
Double Decker Bus
Time For Bingo
Other Functional Skills Challenge Workbooks in this series will be available soon on TES and will cover other essential criteria.
These worksheets have been designed to subtly embed the valuable functional skills learners required to get the most out of education, work and everyday life and to help them function more confidently, effectively and independently. They can be used effectively in Tutorials or Maths sessions.
Each resource has been proven to educate learners on a variety of subjects that will enhance knowledge as well as promoting creativity and individuality.
This Bundle Includes the following 3 Resources
IT COULD BE YOU!
Each has won the lottery and has £1,000,000 to spend.
Task 1 requires learners to decide on how much of their winnings they would gift, if any, to a charity and/or family and friends. This offers an effective platform for discussion around charities, generosity and their individual value of money.
Task two requires the learner to select from a list of items and how they would spend the remaining money. They will write reasons for their choices and share with the rest of the group, which is a great opportunity for speaking and listening and finding common interests within the group.
Task Three asks the learners to complete a shopping list and to include costs and keep a running total of their remaining balance.
The final objective is to get as close to spending 1,000,000 as possible. Calculator use is down to the discretion of the Tutor and the ability of learners.
WHATS ON THE BOX
Learners will work with a Fictional TV guide.
They will study the schedule and then attempt to answer a series of questions related to the information shown. They will then take part in a discussion based on their own favourite TV programme choices. They will create their own Perfect TV schedule, produce questions related to this new timetable and then test their peers.
SMARTIES INVESTIGATION
Learner focus on investigating number and frequency using a tube of Smarties.
Their task is to gather data and produce a bar chart showing their findings.
Learners will then take part in a speaking and listening task that requires them to extract data from other groups allowing them to be able to produce a second chart and accurately present this collective data.
Feedback is Key and we value your positive comments and constructive criticism. Post a review and we will send you another singular resource at the same value of your choice for FREE!
This resource is available to download as a PDF file. Word versions are available and feel free to message me directly for these formats at SmartbooksED@outlook.com