Skills for Life: Teamwork
Teamwork (Unit SfL 26) is one 20 hour unit that learners combine with others into a Pearson Skills for Life Award, Certificate or Diploma, from Entry 1 to Level 2. Learners learn the purpose of teamwork, team roles, skills and benefits, take part in a team activity, carry out a specific role from Level 1 and lead part of the activity at Level 2, then review how it went. The centre sets and marks the assignment. Literacy is central and mostly oral: listening and speaking in the team, leading and organising talk at Level 2, and describing or explaining teamwork and their own performance. Numeracy is light: timekeeping and resource roles are suggested, not required.
- Awarding body
- Pearson
- Level
- Entry Level 1 to Level 2
- Guided learning hours
- 20
- First taught
- September 2027
- Amount of literacy work
- High
- Amount of numeracy work
- Low
- Specification
- Open the specification
How this unit is assessed
- Entry Level (Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3): One assessment criterion at each of Entry 1, Entry 2 and Entry 3: list, outline or identify teamworking skills, benefits and the purpose of teamwork, and demonstrate teamworking skills in a team activity, then say what went well and what did not. There are no mandatory evidence requirements; the centre sets and marks its own assignment (Pearson's Authorised Assignment Brief is optional), internally verified and checked by a Pearson Standards Verifier. Graded Pass or Fail. 20 guided learning hours.
- Level 1 and Level 2: One assessment criterion at each level: describe (Level 1) or explain (Level 2) the purpose of teamwork, team roles, skills and benefits, and demonstrate a range of effective teamworking skills in a team activity while carrying out at least one specific role, with a leadership role at Level 2, then review performance and outcomes. Evidence is chosen by the centre, internally assessed and checked by a Pearson Standards Verifier. Graded Pass or Fail. 20 guided learning hours.
Skills that use Measurement
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Managing time, deadlines and resources in a team
Pearson's Annexe C names timekeeping, deadlines and, where used, resource or finance roles as the numeracy link, for example a timekeeper role or a small budget for an event. No criterion requires calculation, so this is suggested only.
Numeracy: Measurement, Financial literacy, Strategic competence
Getting pupils ready
- Year 7
- Pupils act as timekeeper for a ten minute group task, giving warnings at five and two minutes.
- Year 8
- Pupils draw up a timetable of tasks and deadlines for a class event over two weeks.
- Year 9
- Pupils manage a £20 budget as the team's finance officer, pricing materials for an event and keeping a record of spending.
Show the specification wording and the LNF statements
Where it is in the specification: Unit SfL 26, Annexe C, page 165
“Timekeeping/deadlines; basic resource/finance roles (where used)”
Progression step 3
I can use and interpret calendars, timetables and schedules to plan events and activities, and make calculations as part of the planning journey.
I can realise that budgeting is important.
Progression step 4
I can prioritise and organise the relevant steps needed to complete the task or reach a solution.
I can appreciate the basic principles of budgeting, saving (including understanding compound interest) and borrowing.
Good to know
- The unit is Unit SfL 26 and the unit summary lists it at 20 GLH ("SfL 26 Teamwork 20", Unit summary, page 5); it counts towards Skills for Life qualifications numbered C00/5443/4 to C00/5445/0 (Qualification titles, pages 3 to 4).
- A unit is achieved once, at one level: "Learners can only achieve each unit once, at a single level" (Rules of Combination, page 6).
- Speaking and listening are assessed directly from Entry 1, where learners "demonstrate basic listening and speaking skills in simple team activities" (Essential information for assessment decisions, page 121); at Level 2 learners take "full responsibility for their communication" (Levels of supervision and support, page 122).
- Spoken work needs a record: "Examples of forms of evidence include observation records, witness testimony, and products of learners' work" and "achievement cannot be inferred from performance" (Assessment requirements, page 9).
- Learners can be assessed in Welsh or English: "Learners can be assessed in Welsh or English" (Language of assessment, page 8).
- AI may be used only if acknowledged: "the final submission must be in the learner's own words and reflect their own effort" (Requirements relating to permitted/prohibited resources, page 123).
- The supervision guidance has a copying error: both Entry 1 and Entry 2 say learners "require support but less than Entry Level 1" (Levels of supervision and support, page 122).
Links with other qualifications
The listening, collaborative talk and explaining in this unit reinforce the oracy in GCSE English Language and Literature and GCSE Cymraeg Language and Literature, and Pearson's mapping to the Health and Well-being statement on healthy relationships links it to GCSE Physical Education and Health. Explaining roles and responsibilities in a team supports GCSE Business and VCSE Retail and Customer Service, and within the WJEC Skills Suite it overlaps with Community Participation and Understanding Self and Others. Compared with the WJEC Teamwork unit, which also centres on group talk and review, the Pearson unit adds a leadership role at Level 2 and a performance review at every level, so Level 2 talk demands are higher.
Source: Pearson Entry Level 1 to Level 2 Skills for Life Award, Certificate and Diploma specification, Issue 1, August 2026, Unit SfL 26: Teamwork.