Health and Science TRIPs

T Level Resource Improvement Projects (TRIPs) are an opportunity for providers and other stakeholders to work together to produce resources that will support the planning and delivery of T Levels.  


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Below you will find resources created to support the planning and delivery of the Healthcare Science and Science T Levels:

Materials to support Occupational Specialism holistic delivery

Organisations involved: Windsor Forest College

Peer reviewed by: Gateway Qualifications

Publication date: July 2024

Brief: This T Level Resource Improvement Project (TRIP) has produced a range of learning materials, developed and peer reviewed by experienced T Level providers. These learning materials will support providers to holistically deliver Performance Outcome 1 of the Occupational Specialism Technical: Laboratory Sciences of the T Level in Science. Read the full summary of the resources.

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Employer informed learning materials to support preparation for Industry Placement

Organisations involved: St Mary’s College Hull

Published date: January 2024

Brief: A package of materials to support learners in preparing for their industry placements and making progress against their individual learning objectives. For the T Level in Health supporting the healthcare occupational specialism, the materials consist of:

  • six learning objectives and related indicative workplace tasks to support achievement of these objectives
  • a framework of learning covering 25 hours of learning – the framework demonstrates how the learners are to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to prepare for undertaking tasks on their industry placements
  • lesson plans and learning materials for the 25 hours of learning.

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Developing occupational specialism formative assessment material

Organisations involved: Stoke Sixth Form

Published date: January 2024

Brief: The resources can be used throughout the two years of the T Level in Science occupational specialism in laboratory science. The resources can be used as separate formative assessment tasks or aggregated for more formal progress tests.

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Developing materials to support understanding of science concepts in core content

Organisations involved: Bury College and Derby College

Published date: November 2023

Brief: A package of employer-informed materials to support students to develop the required scientific knowledge and understanding. For the specified core content, the materials developed consist of:

  • a framework for learning covering a minimum of 20 hours of learning – the framework shows how learning would be scaffolded and sequenced to develop the specified core skill
  • lesson plans and associated materials covering a minimum of 20 hours of learning.

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Contextualised learning materials to support understanding and skills of challenging maths concepts

Organisations involved: Leeds City College

Brief: Employer informed and peer reviewed learning materials which contextualise maths within the Health and Science T Level.

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Contextualised learning materials to support understanding of challenging science concepts

Organisations involved: Bede Academy, Hertford Regional College and Eastleigh College

Brief: Developing employer informed learning materials which contextualise T Level Health core science content (TQ Specification Section B1) to motivate and engage students and ensure their success in the core summative assessments. To produce high-quality, employer informed, accessible, and valid learning materials to help students to develop their science knowledge and understanding to successfully complete the core science summative assessments.

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Contextualised resources to support delivery of the health and safety core content

Organisations involved: St John Rigby College

Brief: The TRIP partners involved in this project recognised a need for current industry-standard materials to prepare learners for placements and to contextualise their understanding of the core curriculum (section A) prior to experiencing a “real” laboratory setting. The aim of the project was to produce resources to improve the delivery of the Science T Level, focusing on good health and safety practice within a laboratory setting.

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Developing AO2 and AO3 formative assessment materials for Science

Organisations involved: Derby College and Leeds City College

Brief: Developing employer informed formative assessments to support learner success in the core content assessments in Health and Science T Levels. This project aimed to produce sets of high-quality, accessible, and valid formative assessment materials to help students to develop their skills to successfully answer AO2 and AO3 questions in the Technical Qualification core content summative assessments.

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Developing schemes of learning and guidance materials to develop core skills required for the Employer Set Project

Organisations involved: Derby College

Brief: These peer reviewed and employer informed learning materials have been created to support students to develop the required core skills for each task of the ESP. In addition there is guidance materials for staff and students on how best to prepare for the ESP.

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Developing schemes of learning and guidance materials to develop core skills required for the Employer Set Project

Organisations involved: Hopwood Hall College and Leeds City College

Brief: These peer reviewed and employer informed learning materials have been created to support students to develop the required core skills for each task of the ESP. In addition there is guidance materials for staff and students on how best to prepare for the ESP.

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Science Competence Portfolio Development

Organisations involved: Hopwood Hall College, Science Council, Covance, New College Swindon, Harrow and Uxbridge, Petroc, Cardinal Newman, Fareham

Brief: This project was designed to help employers understand the requirements of placement and reduce any barriers that might be faced. The resources created include a matrix of essential skills, broken down into sections covering how these skills will be developed, practiced, assessed and recorded.

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Below you will find resources created to support the planning and delivery of the Health T Levels:

Supporting holistic delivery – developing learning activities to integrate core and occupational specialism content

Organisations involved: Gloucestershire College and PETROC

Published date: December 2023

Brief: Employer informed and peer reviewed learning activities which combine content from core and occupational specialism sections of the Health and Science T Level.

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Contextualised Science Skills for the Health T Level

Organisations involved: Burnley College

Brief: This project produced contextualised resources to support the development of essential maths and science skills to enable learners to better access the science content of the Health T Level.

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Contextualised learning materials to support development of core skills for the Employer Set Project

Organisations involved: Hugh Baird

Brief: Developing employer informed learning materials which contextualise T Level core skills to ensure student success in the Employer Set Project (ESP). To produce high-quality, employer informed, accessible, and valid learning materials to help students to develop their core skills to successfully complete the Employer Set Project summative assessments.

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Contextualised learning materials to support understanding and skills of challenging maths concepts

Organisations involved: Leeds City College

Brief: Employer informed and peer reviewed learning materials which contextualise maths within the Health and Science T Level.

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Developing AO2 and AO3 formative assessment materials

Organisations involved: Calderdale College

Brief: Employer informed formative assessment and development resources designed to support student success in the T Level core assessments for the Health and Science T Level.

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Developing AO2 and AO3 formative assessment materials for Health

Organisations involved: East Sussex College, Outwood Academy, Hugh Baird College and St Philomena’s Catholic High School

Brief: Developing employer informed formative assessments to support learner success in the core content assessments in Health and Science T Levels. This project aimed to produce sets of high-quality, accessible, and valid formative assessment materials to help students to develop their skills to successfully answer AO2 and AO3 questions in the Technical Qualification core content summative assessments.

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Developing Core Skill formative assessment materials to support success in the Employer Set Project

Organisations involved: City College Norwich, Luminate Education Group

Brief: Developing employer informed formative assessment materials to support learner success in the Employer Set Project (ESP). To produce sets of high-quality, accessible, and valid formative assessment materials to help students to develop their core skills to be successful in the Employer Set Project.

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Developing Employment Competency

Organisations involved: Middlesbrough College, Darlington College, Southport College, Manchester College, Nelson & Colne College

Brief: This project’s aim was to improve teaching practice within T Levels by preparing learners for the progressive development of employment skills and workplace behaviours. The project generated a range of both route specific and non-specific teaching and learning resources, which sought to embed employers views in the design of activities. These activities enabled learner development of English, mathematical and digital literacies and enhanced collaboration skills through problem based learning.

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Holistic planning and delivery

Organisations involved: Hopwood Hall College

Brief: This project produced resources to enable a holistic approach to delivery of the Health T Level. Holistic assessments throughout the resources mean that different areas of the specification are covered in a single task, which supports the structure of assessment for T Levels. Development of wider skills, such as digital, presentation and communication skills, was incorporated in the resource development. The resources produced are easily adaptable, can be used in a range of ways and can be supplemented, which will support different teaching styles and learner needs.

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Materials to support the development of core skills for the Employer Set Project

Organisations involved: Calderdale College and Walsall Academy

Brief: This T Level Resource Improvement Project (TRIP) has produced a range of learning materials, developed and peer reviewed by experienced T Level providers. These learning materials will support learners to develop the Core Skill of Presenting for the T Level in Health.

The resources include:

  • a framework for learning to show how the development of the skills of Presenting can be scaffolded and sequenced
  • 11 lesson plans which cover more than 20 hours of learning to support the development of the Core Skill of Presenting in conjunction with Core Content
  • learning materials to support each lesson which enables the delivery of the learning framework for learning
  • guidance that can be provided to learners to demonstrate how they can use their skill as part of the Employer-set project (ESP) assessment.

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Pan Leeds Health T Level

Organisations involved: Leeds City College

Brief: The pan-Leeds Health TRIP set out to create a citywide approach to the rollout of T Levels in Leeds. This has been achieved by ensuring that employers across the healthcare sector have been involved in the design and implementation of the Health T Level. Through this engagement, educational and clinical practitioners have been able to discuss, share good practice and find workable solutions to align the qualification and industry placements to collective workforce planning that integrates the Health T Level into citywide pathways to health and care careers.

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Partnership approaches to developing effective Health and Nursing T Level placements

Organisations involved: Havant and South Downs College, Abingdon and Witney College, Isle of Wight College and Newbury College

Brief: This project brought together four FE Colleges, all struggling to engage the required number of NHS industry placements. The project focused on developing mirrored training resources, enabling local teaching practice to deliver training in the exact operating procedures, on precise assessment methods used locally prior to engagement on placement, enabling students to ‘hit the ground running’ and add value from day one.

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Passport to Placement toolkit for Health T Level

Organisations involved: Bolton

Brief: This project will improve teaching practice for the delivery of T-Levels through the creation, development and evaluation of an employer informed and endorsed passport to placement ‘tool-kit’ for T Level practitioners.

Each partner will engage with health and social care employers in their area and use draft matrix as a baseline for employers to identify skills, behaviors and attributes needed for a learner to succeed in placement. Standard statements and schemes of learning will be divided between partners and will be presented to trust partners for final amendment. A working group will steer the project.

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Sequencing year one – A collaborative approach to planning

Organisations involved: New College Durham, Sunderland College, Hartlepool College and Education Partnership North-East

Brief: This project was designed to help inform the sequencing of the core content for year one of the T Level in Health, including how to prepare learners for the key assessment points and how to best prepare learners for industry placements.

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If you are interested in participating in a TRIP, please contact TRIPs@etfoundation.co.uk

TRIPs are suitable for teachers, managers, and specialist staff, and can also benefit from the involvement of wider stakeholders such as employers, awarding organisations and Higher Education Institutions. 

TRIPs are offered to the sector as pre-agreed projects that will produce specified resources to support teaching, learning and assessment for T Levels. Projects are funded to support staff time you will have the opportunity to: 

  • shape the content of these projects by informing us of the areas you would like to see covered by additional resources 
  • participate in the resource development for one or more projects
  • support the sector and success of T Levels.