FOUNDATION PROGRAMS

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This qualifications is suitable for individuals who require:

• A pathway to employment and further vocational training reading, writing, oral communication, learning and numeracy skills primarily aligned to 
• Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) Level 1 entry level digital technology and employability skills.
• Foundation skills training package qualifications may not be listed as an entry requirement for vocational qualifications.

The following units include:

• Use short and simple strategies for work-related learning 
• Use beginning whole number skills and money up to 100 for work 
• Use beginning skills related to time and 2D shapes for work 
• Use whole numbers and halves for work 
• Locate, compare and use highly familiar measurements for work 
• Use familiar 2D shapes for work
• Use simple and highly familiar spatial information for work 
• Use simple data for work 
• Use whole numbers and D simple fractions, decimals and percentages for work 
• Use familiar and simple metric measurements for work

This qualifications is suitable for individuals who require:

• A pathway to employment and further vocational training 
• Reading, writing, oral communication, learning and numeracy skills primarily aligned to the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) Level 2
• Entry level digital technology and employability skills 
• Education, training and employment goals.

The following units include:

• Use simple strategies for work - related learning 
• Use whole numbers and halves for work 
• Use basic and familiar metric measurements for work
• Use familiar 2D shapes for work 
• Use simple and highly familiar spatial information for work
• Use simple data for work 
• Use whole numbers and simple fractions, decimals and percentages for work
• Use familiar and simple metric measurements for work
• Use common shapes for work
• Use familiar and simple spatial information for work

This qualifications is suitable for individuals who require:

• A pathway to employment or further vocational training 
• Reading, writing, oral communication, learning and numeracy skills primarily aligned to the 
• Entry level digital literacy and employability skills 
• Avocational training and employment plan

The following units include:

• Use routine strategies for work - related learning 
• Calculate with whole numbers and familiar fractions, decimals and percentages for work 
• Estimate, measure and calculate with routine metric measurements for work 
• Interpret, draw and construct routine 2D and 3D shapes for work
• Familiar and routine maps and plans for work 
• Collect data and construct routine tablets and graphs for work
• Interpret routine tables, graphs and charts and use information and data for work 
• Apply and expanding range of mathematical calculations for work
• Use ratios, rates and proportions for complex workplace tasks
• Estimate, measure and calculate measurements for work 
• Use geometry to draw 2D shapes and construct 3D shapes for work
• Use detailed maps to plan travel routes for work 
• Read, interpret and use detailed plans, drawing and diagrams for work 
• Collect, organize and interpret statistical data for work

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: 

• Communicate effectively in most daily practical and social situations, and in familiar routine work situations, at both concrete and abstract levels.
• Participate in formal and informal conversations, involving problem solving and decision making 
• Speak on familiar concrete topics at a descriptive level and detailed analysis or comparison 
• Participate in conversation with confidence 
• Demonstrate an increased ability to respond appropriately to the formality level of social interaction
• Understand more complex indirect questions about personal experience, familiar topics and general knowledge 
• Follow main ideas, key words and important details in an authentic two - or - three page text on a familiar but partially predictable topic.
• Read English for information, to learn the language and to develop reading skills, but also to begin to read very simple adult fiction for pleasure.
• Write coherent paragraphs on familiar concrete topics with clear main ideas and some supporting details, and with a developing sense of audience
• Demonstrate mostly satisfactory control over complex structures, spelling and mechanics 
• Use and understand and expanded inventory of concrete and common idiomatic language

This course includes:

• Use digital technology for basic workplace tasks
• Produce simple work processed documents
• Design and Produce workplace documents
• Create and Use Spreadsheet 
• Use simple strategies for work related learning 
• Read and respond to basic workplace information
• Read & Respond to workplace Signs & Symbols
• Engage in basic spoken exchanges at work 
• Identify measure and estimate familiar quantities for work 
• Use whole numbers and money up to one thousand for work
• Personal presentation, interview skills to determine confidence in speaking English