The accreditations make use of the skills that the pupils have learnt during Key Stage 3 from our ‘Wren Offer’ and the Equals curriculum.

Our accreditation groups follow the ASDAN personal progress programme.

This covers a wide variety of topics that prepare students for experiences and provisions post-18. Learners accumulate credits by completing units throughout their time in the accreditation groups (KS4-5), with their credit value totalled in the summer of Year 13.

• Learners who accrue 8 credits will receive an Award qualification.
• Learners who accrue 14 credits will receive a Certificate qualification.
• Learners who accrue 25 credits will receive an Extended Certificate qualification.
• Learners who accrue 37 credits will receive a Diploma qualification.
• Learners who accrue fewer than 8 credits will be awarded a unit certificate, provided they have met the full requirements of the unit(s).

Units studied will depend on the learning abilities and needs of the pupils but can include:

• Engaging with the world around you: Sensory story.
• Developing communication skills
• Encountering experiences: creativity
• Engaging in new creative activities
• Independent Living Skills: being healthy
• Independent Living Skills: personal care
• Independent Living Skills: personal presentation
• Engaging with the world of work: exploring work
• Engaging with the world of work: work experience
• Developing skills for the workplace: growing and caring for plants
• Developing skills for the workplace: looking and caring for animals.
• Engaging with self-help and independence skills: eating or drinking
• Preparing drinks and snacks
• Planning and preparing food for an event
• Understanding what money is used for
• Developing skills for the workplace: Health & Safety

ASDAN is an education charity and awarding organisation providing courses, accredited curriculum programmes and regulated qualifications to engage, elevate and empower young people aged 11 to 25 years in greatest need.

ASDAN considers the development of personal, social and work-related abilities so that learners can:

• Strengthening these abilities supports academic and vocational learning.
• They are particularly effective in re-engaging young people in greatest need.
• They are important for accessing knowledge and skills at work.
• They are especially important for entry-level work.
• They equip learners to live well and make full use of their abilities.
• We believe that young people should have the opportunity to discover, develop and make use of their abilities to affirm their identities, contribute to society, and challenge educational and social inequalities.

ASDAN's SEND courses support the achievement of the four preparing for adulthood outcomes, outlined in the SEND Code of Practice for England. These are:

• Employment
• Independent living
• Friends, relationships and community
• Good health

• Equals
• Wren Offer

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