Welcome to World Cup Skills: a literacy, language and numeracy skills project inspired by SkillsActive with the help of a number of partners.
The World Cup Skills project is to promote literacy and numeracy, using the power of football to engage young people and adults across the UK. The 2010 FIFA World Cup is a unique opportunity to hook fans, social players, football club staff and volunteers in football into brushing up their literacy language and numeracy skills.
Throughout the tournament starting 11 June 2010 through to 11 July 2010, we are promoting literacy and numeracy through daily quizzes and challenges.
Log in everyday and join in the fun, participate in the daily first and second half quiz questions and daily challenges, read the quote of the day and learn interesting facts and figures about the World Cup tournaments, teams and players over the decades.
Win great prizes!
Enter the competitions and win prizes like tickets to matches and signed memorabilia. Pass the web link on to your colleagues, friends, family and fellow footballers and get them all to join in the fun.
Individuals
If you are an individual wanting to find out more about brushing up your literacy and numeracy skills or gain your first adult literacy or numeracy qualification we can signpost you to some great resources. As well as these, there are more football resources like this one available.
Employers
If you are an employer and want to take the next steps to supporting your workforce with developing their literacy, language and numeracy skills, we have information, tools and resources to help you take the next steps.
There are more football resources like this, and we also have a pool of great resources developed by our partners across the field of sport and education.
Help promote the site
We want as many people as possible to enjoy this resource and tackle the challenge of raising literacy and numeracy skills.
Please pass on the website address www.worldcupskills.org and if you want to add a links you could use one of our banners:
We also have an A4 poster and A5 poster available for you to print out and distribute.
About us
As a Sector Skills Council, promoting literacy and numeracy skills is essential to the work of SkillsActive with the sport sector. You can find out more about our work with literacy and numeracy skills, or other work that we do, on our website – www.skillsactive.com.
This project has been developed in partnership with The FA, The Prince’s Trust, Active Communities, National Literacy Trust, Podium, Street League and Sportiv8. League Football Education and British Colleges Sport are also key supporters.
“Active Communities Network are delighted to support this important initiative. We will use this tool to raise awareness around numeracy and literacy for the young people that attend our sports based activities during the World Cup”.
Richard Leahy, Director Active Communities
We are especially thankful to the great work from Opus, the designers who helped us in developing this website, and for the support from Alison Brierley, Skills Adviser.
All materials featured on this website have been quality assured to reflect the adult literacy and numeracy standards where appropriate.
