Foundation Public Services
Mae disgrifiad y cymhwyster yn Saesneg yn unig, gan ei fod wedi ei gymryd o fanyleb Saesneg CBAC.
Foundation Public Services is a two unit, portfolio assessed Entry Level and Level 1 qualification for learners aged 14 to 16 interested in the police, fire and ambulance services, councils, the Armed Forces and voluntary groups. Literacy carries almost all of the assessment: learners read case studies and news reports about incidents, use public service terms, write short descriptions and explanations with examples, and speak and listen in role plays, interviews and discussions, with the command words rising from recognise and state to describe and explain. Numeracy is light and sits mainly in setting short and longer term targets with timelines in a personal development plan and in designing a simple questionnaire.
- Corff dyfarnu
- CBAC
- Lefel
- Entry Level and Level 1
- Addysgu gyntaf
- Medi 2027
- Faint o waith llythrennedd
- Canolig
- Faint o waith rhifedd
- Isel
- Manyleb
- Agor y fanyleb
- Y cam nesaf i fyny
- VCSE Public Services, Level 1 and Level 2
Sut mae'r cymhwyster hwn yn cael ei asesu
- Unit 1: Introduction to the Public Services Sector: Centre-marked non-examination assessment, portfolio of evidence from teacher-set activities, maximum assessment time 9 hours (typically 7 to 9 hours), 48 guided learning hours, 72 of the 152 qualification points, criteria at Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3 and Level 1, assessed in the centre and moderated by WJEC, available from summer 2028
- Unit 2: Public Services in Action: Centre-marked non-examination assessment, portfolio of evidence from teacher-set activities, maximum assessment time 15 hours (typically 11 to 15 hours), 72 guided learning hours, 80 of the 152 qualification points, criteria at Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3 and Level 1, assessed in the centre and moderated by WJEC, available from summer 2029
Sgiliau sy'n defnyddio Cynrychioli data
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Designing a questionnaire and collecting responses
A suggested Entry 3 task for LO2.6 has learners design a questionnaire for community members or public service workers about the impact of incident management. The specification does not ask for data analysis, but Appendix A maps the statistics strand of numeracy to LO1.3 and LO2.6.
Rhifedd: Casglu data, Cynrychioli data
Paratoi disgyblion
- Blwyddyn 7
- Pupils ask their class one question about which public service they would most like to work in and record the answers in a tally chart.
- Blwyddyn 8
- Pupils write four questions, including a rating scale, about how safe people feel in the local area, collect answers from 15 people and show the results in a bar chart.
- Blwyddyn 9
- Pupils design a questionnaire on how a local incident was handled, with closed and open questions, collect responses and summarise both the numbers and the comments.
Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r Fframwaith Llythrennedd a Rhifedd
Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Unit 2, examples of tasks LO2.6, page 56; Appendix A, page 67
“Learners design a questionnaire for a member of the community”
Cam cynnydd 3
Rwy'n gallu casglu data perthnasol i ateb cwestiynau a ofynnwyd.
Rwy'n gallu cynrychioli data gan ddefnyddio:
- rhestrau, siartiau cyfrif, tablau, diagramau a thablau amlder
- siartiau bar, siartiau data wedi'u grwpio, graffiau llinell a graffiau trawsnewid
- pictogramau lle mae un symbol yn cynrychioli mwy nag un uned gan ddefnyddio allwedd
- diagramau Venn a Carroll.
Cam cynnydd 4
Rwy'n gallu casglu fy nata fy hun ar gyfer arolwg, e.e. drwy lunio holiadur.
Rwy'n gallu casglu data meintiol ac ansoddol.
Da gwybod
- Learners can show what they know in speech as well as writing: evidence includes "teacher/assessor questioning" with responses "either written or oral", "video/audio recordings" and witness testimonies (Section 3.3, page 59).
- Support is graded by level: Entry 1 learners get "verbal, visual and practical assistance, use of symbols, or assistive technology", Entry 2 learners may use "scaffolded templates", and Level 1 teachers can advise on "planning and structuring their answers" (Section 3.4, page 60).
- The command words rise across the four bands, from Recognise and State at Entry 1 and 2 to Describe and Explain, "using examples", at Entry 3 and Level 1 (assessment criteria, pages 22 to 27 and 45 to 49).
- The example tasks that hold most of the reading, writing and numeracy "are not mandatory" (Section 2.1, page 10), so teachers choose how much extended writing and data work learners do.
- Each learning outcome is marked in points, "Each Entry 1 criteria is allocated 1 point" up to 4 points at Level 1, and Level 1 needs "80% of the total available points" (Section 4.3, page 64).
- Learners meet the importance of literacy and numeracy in the careers content, which names "GCSE English" and "GCSE Maths" among the qualifications needed for some roles (Unit 1, LO1.5, page 18).
- Appendix A (pages 66 and 67) maps Literacy listening to LO1.6, LO1.7, LO2.3 and LO2.4, reading to LO1.1, LO1.3, LO2.1 and LO2.5, speaking to LO1.6, LO1.7, LO2.4 and LO2.5 and writing to LO1.7 and LO2.4. Numeracy is mapped to LO1.7, LO2.4, LO2.3, LO1.3 and LO2.6, with no Unit 1 link for geometry and measurement.
Cysylltiadau â chymwysterau eraill
The specification names VCSE Public Services as the Level 1/2 progression route. The Foundation shares its reading about public services, use of sector vocabulary, written explanations with examples and communication with different audiences. VCSE Public Services steps the literacy up to researching a local wellbeing issue, writing justified recommendations, a project proposal with aims and objectives and an evaluation, and steps the numeracy up sharply to fitness testing against normative data, measuring improvement from a baseline, BMI and resting heart rate, and analysing survey feedback. The reading, writing and discussion of incidents and community issues also build skills for GCSE English Language and Literature and GCSE Social Studies.
Ffynhonnell: WJEC Entry Level/Level 1 Foundation Public Services specification, approved by Qualifications Wales, teaching from September 2027, for award from 2029 (© WJEC CBAC Ltd 2026).