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Additional guidance relevant to PD curriculum

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:

1. 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.
2. 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:

1. Education for sustainable development including national curriculum requirements & opportunities.
2. Global citizenship, environment and sustainable development.
3. 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:

1. New QCA Key Skills Standards
2. National curriculum online
3. Learning and Skills Development Agency
4. Key Skills Support Programme

Thinking skills

• Creative thinking
• Enquiry
• Evaluation
• Information processing
• Reasoning

Guidance:

1. National curriculum online: Learning across the curriculum - Thinking skills
   
2. Thinking skills in Primary classrooms.

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.

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:

1. 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.
2. 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:

1. Education for sustainable development including national curriculum requirements & opportunities.
2. Global citizenship, environment and sustainable development.
3. 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:

1. New QCA Key Skills Standards
2. National curriculum online
3. Learning and Skills Development Agency
4. Key Skills Support Programme

Thinking skills

• Creative thinking
• Enquiry
• Evaluation
• Information processing
• Reasoning

Guidance:

1. National curriculum online: Learning across the curriculum - Thinking skills
   
2. Thinking skills in Primary classrooms.

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.

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