Compass Centre: Functional Skills

Date: 19th Nov 2025 @ 8:22pm

This week, the Compass Centre blog spotlight is on our Functional Skills session.

During this half term, we have been working towards creating our own biscuit recipes. Over the past week, pupils have been learning to identify and match key ingredients with their corresponding words. They have also used their numeracy skills to count ingredients, follow the steps in a recipe, and read scales to weigh out the correct amounts.

We have been using the Talk for Writing approach to learn the recipe by linking creative actions and signs to key words within the recipe to help us remember each step.

The highlight of the session was following the recipe step by step to bake their own biscuits and of course, tasting them was the best part!

We are looking forward to changing aspects of the recipe to personalise them, such as adding cocoa powder or chocolate chips. Keep an eye out for our delicious biscuits!