Functional Skills

Future Horizons recognises the fundamental importance of supporting learners to develop their functional Maths and English. All learners are challenged to improve these skills and develop new knowledge, which in turn will help to support them to be more independent in adult life.

Pathway Leads set aspirational and stretching Functional skills targets for each learner which are set over the course of the college year. For some learners this may be working through parts of the Milestone assessment system, for others it may be personalised to a particular skill they are seeking to develop. Functional Skills are ‘core’ targets so will be embedded across the curriculum. Where meaningful and relevant decreet Functional skills sessions will be timetables for some students.