Foundation Hair and Beauty
Mae disgrifiad y cymhwyster yn Saesneg yn unig, gan ei fod wedi ei gymryd o fanyleb Saesneg VTCT Skills.
VTCT Skills Foundation Hair and Beauty is a two-year Entry Level to Level 1 work-related qualification for learners in Years 10 and 11. Unit 1 covers salon job roles, health and safety, the structure of hair, skin and nails, and consultation and customer care. Unit 2 is practical: learners explore a theme, plan and then carry out off-scalp plaits or twists, face-painting and nail finishes, and reflect on their work. Both units are VTCT-set assignments marked by the centre. Digital demand is low. Digital work sits in teacher-guided keyword searches and social media for ideas, digital mood boards or infographics, step-by-step plans, and understanding why client records and personal details must be kept accurate and private.
- Corff dyfarnu
- VTCT Skills
- Lefel
- Entry Level and Level 1
- Addysgu gyntaf
- Medi 2027
- Faint o waith digidol
- Isel
- Manyleb
- Agor y fanyleb
- Y cam nesaf i fyny
- VCSE Hair and Beauty, Level 1 and Level 2
Sut mae'r cymhwyster hwn yn cael ei asesu
- UWCO3 (Unit 1): Foundations of the Hair and Beauty industry: Non-examined assessment, an assignment brief set by VTCT Skills and changed every year, completed under supervision within a maximum of 6 hours 30 minutes, four tasks of 8 marks each (32 raw marks), 30% of the qualification (75 UMS), marked by the centre with a level-based mark scheme and externally moderated by VTCT Skills, 40 guided learning hours, taken in Year 10 with one resit allowed in Year 11
- UWCO4 (Unit 2): Introduction to Hair and Beauty techniques based on a theme: Non-examined assessment including practical hair styling, face-painting and nail finishes, an assignment brief set by VTCT Skills and changed every year, completed under supervision within a maximum of 8 hours 30 minutes, three tasks of 12, 16 and 12 marks (40 raw marks), 70% of the qualification (175 UMS), marked by the centre with a level-based mark scheme and externally moderated by VTCT Skills, 100 guided learning hours, taken in Year 11 with no resit
Sgiliau sy'n defnyddio Cyrchu, chwilio a chynllunio cynnwys digidol
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Searching online for images and ideas for a theme
To explore a themed look, learners gather ideas from magazines, posters and books, and also from teacher-guided social media, classroom image banks and keyword searches done with support. Assessment criterion 2.1 requires the exploration, but searching online is only one of the listed methods, so a centre can evidence it without a computer.
DCF: Cyrchu, chwilio a chynllunio cynnwys digidol
Paratoi disgyblion
- Blwyddyn 7
- Pupils search for pictures of St David's Day face-painting using two different sets of keywords and bookmark the three best pages.
- Blwyddyn 8
- Pupils refine their keywords, for example adding festival or Celtic, to find images of fishtail and rope twist plaits, and save the links in a OneNote page.
- Blwyddyn 9
- Pupils search a teacher-chosen social media board and a magazine website for a seaside theme, save six images into a folder and note which source was most useful.
Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r FCD
Ble mae yn y fanyleb: UWCO4 (Unit 2), LO2, taught content 2.1, page 61; assessment criterion 2.1, page 73
“Searching for key words (with support)”
Cam cynnydd 3
Rwy'n gallu addasu geiriau allweddol a thechnegau chwilio er mwyn dod o hyd i wybodaeth berthnasol.
Rwy'n gallu storio canlyniadau chwilio i’w defnyddio yn y dyfodol, e.e. creu nod tudalen, ychwanegu at ffefrynnau.
Cam cynnydd 4
Rwy'n gallu chwilio amrywiaeth o ffynonellau gan ddefnyddio technegau chwilio perthnasol a mwy cymhleth.
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Planning a service as an ordered sequence of steps
Learners create a plan listing the theme, materials, steps to follow in the correct order, time needed for each part and safety checks. Assessment criterion 2.2 requires it, and at lower levels plans may be teacher-led with learners selecting key points. Putting steps in the right order is the same thinking as sequencing an algorithm or flowchart.
DCF: Cyrchu, chwilio a chynllunio cynnwys digidol, Datrys problemau a modelu
Paratoi disgyblion
- Blwyddyn 7
- Pupils drag photo cards of the steps for painting a nail into the right order on a PowerPoint slide, from cleaning the nail to the topcoat.
- Blwyddyn 8
- Pupils draw a flowchart in Word for a three-strand plait, with one step per box and a decision box asking whether the model is comfortable.
- Blwyddyn 9
- Pupils write a plan in a table with the theme, materials, ordered steps, time for each step and safety checks, then test it by following it exactly and fixing any step that is out of order.
Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r FCD
Ble mae yn y fanyleb: UWCO4 (Unit 2), LO2, taught content 2.2, page 61; assessment criterion 2.2, page 73
“Plans may be teacher-led with learners identifying or selecting key points.”
Cam cynnydd 3
Rwy'n gallu creu a chynllunio gwaith yn annibynnol cyn dechrau ar dasg ddigidol.
Rwy’n gallu deall pwysigrwydd trefn datganiadau o fewn algorithmau.
Cam cynnydd 4
Rwy'n gallu dewis a defnyddio amrywiaeth o dechnegau cynllunio yn effeithiol.
Rwy'n gallu creu model syml neu algorithm annibynnol.
Da gwybod
- There is no examination. Both units are a "Non-Examined Assessment" that is "Externally set, internally marked, internally quality assured externally moderated" (Section 5.1, page 16), so VTCT Skills writes the tasks and the centre marks them.
- Unit 2 counts for 70% and has no resit: "There is no resit opportunity for the Non-Examined Assessment (NEA) UWCO4 (Unit 2)." (Section 5.4.4, page 22). Unit 1 has "ONE resit opportunity" in Year 11 and a resit fee (Section 5.3.4, page 20).
- The overall grade adds the two units' UMS: "stronger performance in one component can offset weaker performance in the other" (Section 4, page 14). Grades are NYA, Entry 1 Pass, Entry 2 Pass, Entry 3 Pass and Level 1 Pass (page 5).
- No digital product is required. Unit 1 resources include "computers/access to internet" (Section 7.2, page 27), and the only digital methods in the unit content are options such as "Social media (teacher-guided)" (Unit 2, taught content 2.1, page 61).
- The Curriculum for Wales mapping (Section 11.1, page 76) links digital competence only to Unit 1 LO4.3 and to Unit 2 LO2.1 to 2.3 and LO4.1 to 4.4, and it ties record keeping to LO4.3 although record keeping appears under 4.2 in the unit content.
- Work is supervised and individual: the assessment "does not permit collaboration or discussion between learners" (Appendix 1, page 79), and learners sign a "Declaration of Authenticity Form" (Section 5.4.8, page 23). AI use is not mentioned.
- Centres submit marks and evidence through the "VTCT Skills e-testing platform" (Section 8.2.1, page 31), and the internal quality assurer completes "an online marking grid" for each learner sampled (Section 7.4, page 29).
- The qualification is not a licence to practise: it "is not designed to award occupational competence" (Section 3.2, page 8). Teachers "are not required to hold specific occupational qualifications" (Section 7.3, page 28).
- The document has leftover errors from other VTCT Skills specifications: it refers to the "VCSE NEA Teacher/Assessor Guidance and Marking Criteria" (Section 7.4, page 28), Unit 2 reflection asks learners to link answers to "the finished dish" (taught content 4.1, page 71), and task marking is called "high control" in Section 5.1 (page 16) but "medium control" in Appendix 1 (page 80).
Cysylltiadau â chymwysterau eraill
There is no WJEC Foundation or VCSE in Hair and Beauty, so this VTCT Skills qualification has no WJEC version to compare with; its own next step is the VTCT Skills Level 1/2 VCSE Hair and Beauty, which the specification names as a progression route. The specification suggests the WJEC Skills for Work units Customer Service and Working in Wales and the Skills for Life unit Understanding Self and Others as companions, and these share its consultation, customer care and Welsh context work. The theme exploration and mood boards link with GCSE Art and Design and GCSE Design and Technology, the structure of hair, skin and nails with GCSE The Sciences or Integrated Science, and small salon businesses with GCSE Business. Its client care content sits close to WJEC Foundation Retail and Customer Service, and its hygiene and wellbeing content close to WJEC Foundation Health and Social Care, and Childcare.
Ffynhonnell: VTCT Skills Entry Level/Level 1 Foundation Hair and Beauty, Qualification Specification CO1W1, qualification number C00/5369/0, version P1, first published 01/09/2026, approved by Qualifications Wales for teaching from September 2027.