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Additional guidance relevant to PD curriculum


		11-16 schools

		6th form schools

		Colleges

In addition to the statutory requirements, national guidance is available on other aspects of the personal development curriculum, for instance financial capability, parenthood education, safety education and education for sustainable development. There are also links with the development of generic skills, and the processes of reviewing and recording progress and target setting. Curriculum frameworks are suggested for some of these areas.

Financial capability

Framework and guidance:

Financial capability through Personal Finance Education - Guidance for schools key stages 3 & 4 (DfEE 0000/2000). Includes non-statutory framework for key stages 1-4, with learning outcomes.
National curriculum online: Learning across the curriculum - Financial capability.

Parenthood

Framework and guidance:

Parenthood Education Guidance for Schools, Parenting Education and Support Forum 2002, including non-statutory framework key stages 1-4, with learning outcomes.

Safety education

Guidance:

Safety Education Guidance

Education for sustainable development

Guidance:

Education for sustainable development including national curriculum requirements & opportunities.
Global citizenship, environment and sustainable development.
Developing a Global Dimension in the School Curriculum – Guidance material for headteachers, Senior Managers and LEAs.

Generic skills

National Skills Strategy

White paper - 21st Century Skills: Realising Our Potential Individuals, Employers, Nation.

Key skills

Communication
Application
ICT
Working with others
Improving own learning and performance
Problem solving

At level 5 there is a single key skill unit in personal skills development.

Guidance:

Thinking skills

Creative thinking
Enquiry
Evaluation
Information processing
Reasoning

Guidance:

National curriculum online: Learning across the curriculum - Thinking skills
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/thinkingskills (for primary schools only).

Reviewing and recording progress and target setting

Individual Learning Plan

An individual learning plan for each young person is to be developed as a result of a review towards the end of key stage 3, to:

record progress made during key stage 3
help inform specific choices about the subjects/learning programme they will study during key stage 4
establish broad learning and career goals for the whole 14–19 phase, including identifying wider development activities that the young person might participate in
provide the basis for ongoing monitoring and review of progress during the 14–19 phase.

DfES report: 14-19 opportunity & excellence, Volume 2 Annex 5 (DfES 0744/2002 Annex)

Progress File

Progress File is an interactive set of guides designed to help young people and adults identify their skills. It is a tool for helping individuals plan their own learning and their career development, recognising the knowledge, understanding and skills they are acquiring and how to record these achievements effectively.