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Level 1 and below including Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing insight newsletter | June 2023

Hello and welcome to the Pearson Level 1 and below newsletter for June 2023 covering all things below level 2 including BTEC Workskills and BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing.

This month we have new Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing teaching resources to discuss, training events, as well as an opportunity for your centre to provide feedback on our below level 2, Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing qualifications.

Training Events

As part of our level one and below suite we have some training coming up in our very popular series of “Getting ready to teach” This month both the Personal Growth and Wellbeing suite and the Workskills suite will feature.

If you haven’t signed up and you would like to teach this in September there is still time to register for these events. Please see below for links to sign up and further information.

Getting Ready to Teach BTEC Workskills Entry 1 - Level 2

This training event is for centres and colleague who may be new to BTEC Workskills, or new to the profession. The training will provide an overview of the whole qualification, its suitability for your centre and administration processes so you can teach with confidence. It may also be useful for colleagues who require a refresher on the qualification and how it can be used: Getting Ready to Teach BTEC Workskills Entry 1 - Level 2 | 16th June

Should you have missed this session, a recording will be available soon after, on our YouTube channel. 

Getting Ready to Teach BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing Entry 3 - Level 2

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Should you have missed this session, a recording will be available soon after, on our YouTube channel. 

Have your say on our qualifications

As part of our yearly review, we would like to gather your feedback on several different aspects of our below level 2 provision including Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing. As part of this we would like to offer you the opportunity to complete a short Microsoft Form to feedback to us to give your views on the things that work and the things that we could improve on in order to help us to continue to provide the best support to you when teaching our qualifications. To provide feedback please use the link below: Below Level 2 Feedback from

Join our Facebook page Please note we now have a new Facebook page up and running: Pearson BTEC Level 1 and below Facebook Group | Facebook

Please feel free to join the group to find out the latest updates and help us to grow our community. We would love you to participate.

New teaching and learning resources

We have recently developed Pearson resources to support you in teaching BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing.

These handy documents are guides created by Pearson to help support centres in delivering the BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing suites. Each guide contains descriptions of activities and links to a variety of external stakeholder materials that are publicly available and that you may find useful in supporting your teaching and delivery of these qualifications. The Personal Growth and Wellbeing Suite units selected also focus on the requirements for RSE and so will provide complete coverage of the RSE requirements if you are teaching in a secondary school. These guides are available for all qualification levels, and you can access each on the main qualification landing page of that qualification and level.

Here is a link to the Personal Growth and Wellbeing ones. They feature on the right under resources.

Finally, do take the opportunity to read our monthly blog. This month’s blog is all about securing community engagement in BTEC Workskills and is a valuable read: L1 and below blog

Have a great half term

Kelly Adams - Product Manager Level 1 Below Including Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing.