Vocational qualifications Life and Living Skills Entry Level 1 - 3 - 10160-10172, 10181-10183

Adapted assessment (2021/22)

During 2021/22 adaptations to assessments were available to support candidates and assessors while public health restrictions were in place. As those restrictions are no longer in place, those adaptations are no longer necessary. In 2022/23 (and beyond) evidence produced for assessments must be in line with the requirements and guidance set out in the centre handbook and units.
Extension of qualification

The review date for the OCR Life and Living Skills qualifications has been extended until 31st December 2025. Please see the Subject Update for more information.

Our Life and Living Skills suite is a comprehensive range of versatile and adaptable qualifications, with no minimum entry requirements. You can choose from over 140 bite-sized units across a wide range of skill areas; including pre-employability, personal and social skills. There are no mandatory units or barred combinations at any level, allowing for varied personalised learning programmes with a completely flexible structure.

Benefits

There's a range of qualification sizes worth 2 credits and upward
Certificate as you go – great for motivating learners and recognising achievement if plans change

Teaching and learning resources

(14) Support materials
- Command verbs (PDF, 869KB)
  
  This resource gives an explanation for the most commonly used command verbs in the Life and Living qualifications.
  
  Download
- Effective communication for work - Pre-employment skills - a project approach (PDF, 12MB)
  
  This project approach shows how by giving the learners a project Effective communication for work (Pre-employment skills), they can cover a range of units from Life and Living Skills and Cambridge Progression English.
  
  Download
- Effective communication for work - Pre-employment skills - Lesson element - Communication skills in the workplace (DOC, 822KB)
  
  The activities in this Lesson element (Activities 1-6), support the Effective communication for work (Pre-employment skills) project approach.
  
  Download
- Effective communication for work - Pre-employment skills - Lesson element - Personal skills and qualities (DOC, 624KB)
  
  The activities in this Lesson element (Activities 7-12), support the Effective communication for work (Pre-employment skills) project approach.
  
  Download
- Entry 1 - Developing reading skills - Sample (PDF, 49KB)
- Entry 2 - Carrying out routine tasks at work - Sample (PDF, 136KB)
- Entry 3 - Using ICT to find information - Sample (PDF, 229KB)
- How to write a centre-set assignment (PDF, 1MB)
  
  This resource shows how to write centre-set assignments.
  
  Download
- Moving towards retirement - A project approach (PDF, 4MB)
  
  This project approach shows how by giving the learners a project (Moving towards retirement), they can cover a range of units from Life and Living Skills, Cambridge English and Cambridge Progression Maths.
  
  Download
- Moving towards retirement - Lesson element - Getting the most out of your reading - Learner task (DOC, 2MB)
  
  This lesson element gives learners some text to read and a set of questions to answer.
  
  Download
- Moving towards retirement - Lesson element - Getting the most out of your reading - Teacher instructions (PDF, 164KB)
  
  This document gives teachers background information about this Lesson Element.
  
  Download
- Moving towards retirement - Lesson element - Learn a new skill - Learner task (DOC, 2MB)
  
  This lesson element gives some tasks about learning a new skill.
  
  Download
- Moving towards retirement - Lesson element - Learn a new skill - Teacher instructions (PDF, 118KB)
  
  This document gives teachers background information about this Lesson Element.
  
  Download
- Sample learner portfolio (PDF, 2MB)
  
  The resource provides some sample learner portfolios for a number of units.
  
  Download