Documents produced by the Offender Learning and Skills Service, part of the Skills Funding Agency which aims to ensure that access to learning and skills is available to offenders in prison and supervised in the community.
Offender Learning and Skills ServiceFootage of a training event in aimed at giving teaching assistants the skills required to provide effective numeracy education in primary schools.
London Language and Literacy UnitComprises equipment and instructions for learning activities 1-5:
Percentages: best buys;
Decimal place value slider;
Equivalencies;
Fractions: understanding and using;
Pelmanism
LLU+Includes a booklet and CD-ROM for Numeracy Activities Toolkit ESF 3.1D Engaging Offenders in Learning and Skills - Capacity Building and Quality Improvement Project. Also includes three Maths 4 Life booklets and activities with equipment, explanation cards and assessment cards on the following topics: data handling; fractions; number and measures, shape and space.
LLU+Comprises the following issues of Networking:
Issue 18 - June 2006
Issue 19 - October 2006
Issue 20 - March 2007
Issue 21 - June 2007
Issue 22 - October 2007
Issue 23 - March 2008
Issue 24 - July 2008
LLU+Comprises the following issues of Networking:
Issue 11 - February 2004
Issue 12 - June 2004
Issue 13 - October 2004
Issue 14 - March 2005
Issue 15 - June 2005
Issue 16 - October 2005
Issue 17 - March 2006
LLU+Comprises the following issues of Networking:
Issue 1 - October 2000
Issue 2 - February 2001
Issue 3 - May 2001
Issue 4 - October 2001
Issue 5 - February 2002
Issue 6 - May 2002
Issue 7 - October 2002
Issue 8 - February 2003
Issue 9 - June 2003
Issue 10 - October 2003
London Language and Literacy UnitNetworking was the Unit's newsletter produced in order to foster the different networks it worked with and bring them together by sharing news and information. It was produced once a term, with the first issue produced in October 2000. The newsletter was redesigned twice, firstly in 2004 after the Unit changed its name to LLU+ and secondly in the summer of 2006 after moving to new premises in Pocock House.
Comprises issues 1-24 of Networking.
The results of a survey collecting information about respondents' involvement in both taught and self-directed learning.
Sarah Beinart and Patten SmithNATECLA (National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults) newsletter containing articles on the launch of the Adult ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) core curriculum.
NATECLA (National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults)Comprises reports and tables monitoring progress of the Professional Development Centre and an European Social Fund short record provider support manual.
LLU+Interactive CD-ROM with user guide providing information on typical financial activities and exercises to help practise skills in financial management.
A film of the LLU+ self-assessment carousel, a set of ten numeracy activities based around the 'Minimum Core' to be completed by participants allowing them to test their skills in a non-threatening environment. The film examines each activity and the thought processes behind them.
Minimum Core was introduced in the 2000s and set out the knowledge and skills required by teachers in literacy, language, numeracy and ICT to fulfil their role.
Minutes from an All Staff meeting and a consultation meeting with London South Bank University.
LLU+Comprises a set of four booklets designed to encourage parents and young children to develop maths understanding, language and skills through activities situated in and around the home:
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Numbers around you
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Read numbers - Find numbers
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Let's count!
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Add and take away
A CD-ROM and DVD providing advice and training in understanding and managing money.
The Basic Skills Agency, Department for Education and SkillsArticles written by London South Bank University promoting its work with the local community.
London South Bank UniversityComprises leaflets and flyers publicising the Unit, the areas of learning it worked in, consultancy work undertaken and the Unit's London Adult Numeracy Professional Development Centre.
London Language and Literacy Unit