Restaurant Services: Foundation Skills Competition

Overview

Restaurant Service competition focus on all the essential requirements for embarking on a career working within the hospitality industry.

The Foundation Skills competitions have been created to showcase the skills of students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), additional learning needs (ALN), or who require additional support for learning (ASL), who are currently undertaking a course with an FE or training provider at Entry level or level 1.

These competitions provide opportunities for students and learners to develop their vocational skills, wider skills for work, personal, social and independence skills.

This competition tests competitors’ skills and knowledge of creating a suitable table layout for 2 people.

The skills you need to demonstrate

Health and Safety
Professionalism
Communication skills
Organisation skills
Commercial awareness
Flexibility
Problem solving
Team working

Entry criteria

This is an individual competition
There is no limit to the number of competitors permitted to enter this competition per organisation
Competitors must be familiar with the core competencies (these can be found in the useful Information section below) and have achieved or working towards Entry Level 3(England and Wales), Level 2 ( Northern Ireland), Access 3 (Scotland) and must not have passed the next level within 6 months of the competition. This competition is designed for SEND learners who have statement of learning difficulty/disability

How it works

1. Find your shining stars

Use our practical guidance and tools to run your own competition activity as part of your teaching and learning programmes. This is a great way to stimulate enthusiasm and interest for competitions

2. Register

Sign up to keep informed of current developments and ongoing tips on competition activity

3. Prepare your learners

Prepare learners to take part in competition by developing their technical and mental skills so they can compete at their best – there are lots of tools and resources available to help you

4. Learners compete in qualifiers

Learners who get through the passive stage (where they will be expected to prepare a submission for entry or participate in an online assessment), will be invited to take part in national qualifiers which take place across the UK between April and June. All competitors receive certification for their achievements at the qualifiers

5. WorldSkills UK LIVE National Finals

The highest performers from the national qualifiers are invited to compete in the UK National Finals in November at WorldSkills UK LIVE, the UK’s largest skills, apprenticeship and careers event