58 www.preston.ac.uk ENGLISH & MATHS Maths and English skills are essential to your everyday life. A lot of careers and universities require these subjects, so they are important for your progression as well. If you leave school without a grade 4 or above in either subject then you are required to study them until you achieve the grade 4. You will only study the subjects that you need, for example if you get a grade 4 in maths and grade 3 in English then you will only be required to study English. Studying maths and English at college will be a different experience than studying it at school. Your maths and English lessons will be timetabled around your main college course and will support the development of your skills in preparation for your exams. Your other subject tutors will embed your learning from maths and English into your units so you apply your learning to your future career. For example, in construction, maths skills are utilised to work out square footage and angles, joiners use trigonometry on a daily basis and in hairdressing you will use angles for cutting layers and ratios for colour mixing. English skills include communication and presentation of work, findings or report writing.
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