SkillsActive has developed a range of resources for developing adult literacy, language and numeracy.
Get Set Go: Learning assessment tool
Get Set Go is a Skills for Life learning assessment journey that is useful for anyone considering a career, or career progression, in the sport and fitness sector.
Get Set Go brings together careers information and Skills for Life tools, taking the user through a five step journey. It is available to purchase from the SkillsActive website.
Buy the Get Set Go toolkit now >
Raising your Game: supporting staff in sport and recreation to improve their English and maths
This toolkit was developed in partnership with Move On and produced especially for employers in sport and recreation. It gives a full briefing on literacy and numeracy in the sector and demonstrates how employers can access the training to improve the basic skills of their staff.
The Raising your Game toolkit covers areas such as:
- The benefits to staff of improving English and maths skills.
- The positive promotion and how to engage staff to improve their English and maths.
- Setting up training and who to work in partnership with.
Download the Raising your Game toolkit >
Play On: supporting staff to improve their English and maths
English and maths skills are vital in everyday life and playworkers use these skills at work everyday from making a poster, preparing a budget for an activity to writing a letter to parents and carers, or completing a risk assessment.
Our Play On toolkit was developed in partnership with Move On and offers practical advice and support to playwork employers on how to support their staff to develop their English and maths skills.
The Play On toolkit includes:
- The benefits to playworkers and playwork organisations of improving English and maths skills.
- The positive promotion and how to engage staff to improve their English and maths.
- Setting up training and who to work in partnership with.
- How to evaluate training and the key indicators.
- Resources include a skills checklist, English and maths quiz and a maths takeaway.
Download the Play On toolkit >
Playwork Basic Skills Toolkit: supporting playworkers in Wales to improve their literacy and numeracy
We have developed a toolkit in partnership with Play Wales and Basic Skills Cymru especially for employers in the playwork sector based in Wales. The toolkit gives full detailed information on literacy and numeracy in the sector and how employers can access the training to improve the skills of their staff.
The toolkit covers areas such as:
- The benefits to staff of improving their literacy and numeracy skills.
- How to engage staff to improve their literacy and numeracy.
- Organising a training course to develop staff skills.
- What funding is available within Wales.
Download the Playwork Basic Skills toolkit >
To access a version in Welsh please visit the Welsh pages.
World Cup Skills
World Cup Skills is a literacy, language and numeracy skills project inspired by the 2010 World Cup and delivered by SkillsActive with the help of a number of partners.
Visit http://www.worldcupskills.org for more information.
Ryder Cup quiz
Once again SkillsActive is using sport to engage employers in sport to raise the standards of literacy and numeracy skills. So whether you love watching or playing golf, whether you work for a golf club or are a golf coach, good literacy and numeracy skills are fundamental for all of us and key to being successful at work and in life.
Download the Ryder Cup golf quiz and answer sheet.
Other resources
Government information on Skills for Life is available on the read write plus website.
The provider toolkit website provides a comprehensive bank of information on workplace language, literacy and numeracy, for practitioners, learning representatives and brokers; including guidance, case studies, proformas, and exemplar materials to support and supplement training and development activities.
