15/08/2026
✍🏻 Signed
Petition: Create an applied pathway within GCSE Maths and English like Functional Skills
⭐️This would be so beneficial to many of the students I have worked with and continue to work with.
🤔💭How many of us often say, “I haven’t used xyz since school” or “Why didn’t they teach us this in school?”
💵📏Functional skills Maths requires competency in useable, transferable maths skills in real life contexts: budgeting, discounts, measuring areas for DIY etc.
📧📝Functional Skills English requires you to focus on tone for advertisements, emails, letters of complaint; again in contexts that they are likely to experience in the working world.
🔀We need more options for our young people to be successful in real life! Something they actually need and would make sense.
Please consider signing this petition 🫶
Create an applied assessment pathway within GCSE English and Maths based on existing Functional Skills assessment methods. Students would still achieve a GCSE qualification, but could demonstrate the same literacy and numeracy skills through an applied, criterion-referenced assessment pathway.
