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 roles in a team, take part in group tasks, show respect for other people's views, complete a task together and review their own and the team's performance. Digital demand is low: every criterion can be met face to face. Digital work sits in optional routes, such as planning and sharing tasks with online collaboration tools, giving peer feedback through comments, and capturing teamwork evidence on video or audio.
- Awarding body
- WJEC
- Level
- Entry Level 1 to Level 2
- Guided learning hours
- 20
- First taught
- September 2027
- Amount of digital 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 Collaboration
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Planning and sharing a group task online
At Level 1 and Level 2 learners work with other people to complete a group task and contribute to team objectives, which the criteria require. Doing this through shared documents, role sheets or online checklists is only one possible route, so the digital collaboration is optional and can be replaced by paper plans.
DCF: Collaboration
Getting pupils ready
- Year 7
- Pupils in groups of four fill in a shared online table showing who is leader, recorder, timekeeper and resource manager for a tower building challenge.
- Year 8
- Pupils plan a class display in a shared document, each editing their own section and setting comment rights for the teacher.
- Year 9
- Pupils choose an online collaboration tool to plan a charity stall, assigning tasks, deadlines and owners and updating progress over two weeks.
Show the specification wording and the DCF statements
Where it is in the specification: Level 1 and Level 2, learning outcomes 2 and 4, assessment criteria 2.1 and 4.1, page 7; sources of evidence, page 11
“Team planning documents, such as mind maps, checklists, or simple plans.”
Progression step 3
I can work with others to create an online collaborative project for a specific purpose, sharing and appropriately setting permissions for other group members, e.g. editing, commenting, viewing.
Progression step 4
I can independently select and use a range of online collaboration tools to create a project with others in one or more languages, e.g. making use of online technology to share and present ideas to others.
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).
- No special equipment is needed: "Assessment of this unit should not require any specific resources." (Resources required for assessment, page 12).
- Evidence can be photos, video and audio: the list includes "Photographic evidence of learners taking part in group tasks or producing outcomes." (Sources of evidence, page 11), and the portfolio "is not limited to paper-based materials" (specification section 4.1, page 18).
- 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).
Links with other qualifications
The pack names VCSE Retail and Customer Service and GCSE Business as linked WJEC qualifications, both of which deal with roles, responsibilities and working in teams in a workplace. 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 communication, respect for others and collaborative work.
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).