At King's Oak students are offered the opportunity to study ICT Functional Skills. Functional Skills allows students to learn to use various Microsoft applications, which is a useful skill to have in when joining college as well as in a number of different employment roles.

 

All students start working towards Level 1. When they successfully complete this Level then they have the opportunity to move onto Level 2.

 

Level 1 Functional skills requires students to be able to:

• use ICT
• finding and selecting information
• developing, presenting and communicating information.

 

Students will be taught how to create various word documents, desktop publishing, presentational software and spreadsheets. Students will also learn how to create tables, use formulas and produce graphs.

 

If you wish to find out more please find the Specification below.

 

As a school our examination body for this course is Edexcel.