UK Edition: Warehouse Order Picking Work Task Box: Location Codes, SEND, KS4 and Post-16

Warehouse and stockroom jobs come up a lot for my learners, and the work is mostly reading codes carefully. A learner who can read B 2 to 4 and not grab B 4 to 2 is a learner a supervisor can trust. This box lets learners practise the reading and the checking at a table before they are walking real aisles. The short picks are on purpose. On a real job, an empty bin is normal, and the right move is to write it up and tell someone, not to grab something close.

How it works

Set up the four shelf grid mats with the 48 item cards. At Level A, learners pull one item by its exact code. At Level B, they pick 3 items and check each one off. At Level C, they pick 5 items with quantities. Three bins are empty at Level C, so learners write 0 and fill out a short pick slip. Learners check their picks against the ticket codes (cover codes with tape if they peek), and you record accuracy and prompt level.

What you get (32 A4 pages plus an editable Word file)

• Level A: 12 one item pick tickets

• Level B: 24 three item pick tickets

• Level C: 24 five item pick tickets with quantities, including 3 short picks

• 4 shelf grid mats (one per aisle, 12 bins each) and 48 item cards

• 3 EMPTY BIN cards and short pick slips for Level C

• 1 page on reading location codes and 1 location grid page

• 3 practice pages, one for each level

• Answer key for every ticket and practice page

• Data sheet and a 10 session accuracy graph

• A plan for trying it for real in school, with a 5 item supervisor check

• Blank tickets and blank item cards

How it fits with my other sets

My Warehouse Job Skills Task Cards teach picking, packing, and forklift safety as site procedure cards. This Work Task Box is a tabletop picking station: shelf grid mats, item cards, pick tickets, short pick slips, self check codes, and a data sheet. No warehouse procedure cards or forklift content are repeated.

Who it is for: KS4, post 16 and young adult SEND groups, supported internships, job coaches and work experience leads. Level A suits emerging readers. The cards are plain text and numbers, so nothing looks babyish. The data sheet gives you accuracy and prompt level evidence you can bring to an EHCP annual review or a SEN Support review under Preparing for Adulthood: employment.

UK edition: A4, UK spelling and UK workplace words throughout.

Licence: one download covers one teacher. Please do not post the file online.

Keywords: SEND, EHCP, Preparing for Adulthood, KS4, Post 16, work experience, work placement, supported internship, employability, job skills, special educational needs, learning disability, autism, FE college, sixth form, work task box, sorting and matching