Skills for Life: Teamwork
Teamwork is a 20 hour Skills for Life unit, one of many units learners combine into a Skills for Life or Skills for Work Award, Certificate or Diploma. Learners learn about team roles, take part in group tasks, show respect for other people's views and review their own and the team's performance. Literacy is central and mostly oral: following instructions, contributing to group talk, listening and responding, giving feedback and explaining roles and their own contribution. Numeracy is light and only suggested, through timekeeping and working within limited time or materials.
- Awarding body
- WJEC
- 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
How this unit is assessed
- Entry Level (Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3): Four learning outcomes. Evidence goes in a portfolio, internally assessed by the centre and externally quality assured by WJEC. 20 guided learning hours.
- Level 1 and Level 2: Four learning outcomes. Evidence goes in a portfolio, internally assessed by the centre and externally quality assured by WJEC. 20 guided learning hours.
Skills that use Collaborative talk
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Contributing to group talk
Learners move from making a basic contribution to a group activity at Entry 1 to making relevant contributions that support team objectives at Level 2. These contributions are required by the assessment criteria and are usually spoken.
Literacy: Collaborative talk
Getting pupils ready
- Year 7
- Pupils take a role card such as speaker or recorder and each offer one idea in a group plan for a class display.
- Year 8
- Pupils discuss three options for a group product and agree one, with the chair making sure everyone speaks.
- Year 9
- Pupils run a team meeting with an agenda, each reporting progress on their part and agreeing next steps.
Show the specification wording and the LNF statements
Where it is in the specification: Entry Level, learning outcome 2, assessment criterion 2.2, page 5; Level 1 and Level 2, learning outcome 2, assessment criterion 2.1, page 7
“Make relevant contributions to support team”
Progression step 3
I can contribute to group discussion in different roles, taking responsibility for completing the task well.
Progression step 4
I can undertake a range of responsibilities to structure and develop group talk, including in more formal situations.
I can recognise a range of options for action and reach agreement to achieve the aims of the group.
Good to know
- Unit codes are S626E1, S626E2, S626E3, S626L1 and S626L2, and the unit is 20 GLH in the Skills for Life suite (Unit overview, page 3).
- Spoken evidence counts: the list includes "Audio recordings of learners contributing to group discussions or reflecting on their role" and minutes or notes from group discussions (Sources of evidence, page 11).
- Writing is not the focus: "extended written work" is not required unless appropriate, and judgements are on meeting the standard, not spelling or presentation (Sources of evidence, page 11).
- Suggested assessment tasks "are not mandatory"; teachers may adapt them or devise their own (specification section 4.1, page 18).
- AI tools may be used only if acknowledged: learners "cannot be credited for any work they produce for assessment which is not their own" (specification section 4.6, page 21).
- Plural criteria mean at least two: "a plural reference within assessment criterion refers to a minimum of two" (page 7).
Links with other qualifications
The pack names VCSE Retail and Customer Service and GCSE Business as linked WJEC qualifications, where explaining workplace roles and communicating in teams use the same speaking and listening skills. Within the Skills Suite, the pack suggests delivering it alongside Community participation, Looking after others, Understanding self and others, Healthy relationships, Work experience, Fairness and inclusion in the workplace and Customer service, which share group discussion, listening and respectful communication.
Source: WJEC Teamwork unit delivery and assessment pack, read with the WJEC Entry 1 to Level 2 Skills for Life and Skills for Work specification, approved by Qualifications Wales, teaching from September 2027 (© WJEC CBAC Ltd 2026).