Aims:

• To provide all students of year 11 and above with the opportunity to complete short, certificated awards in relations to the current curriculum.
• To offer post 16 students the opportunity to complete additional units chosen by them on a termly basis, based on their chosen options.

Responsibilities:

• All teaching staff of students of year 11 and above are responsible for finding appropriate AQA units, planning and delivering lessons based upon the units requirements and outcomes.
• All teaching staff to obtain evidence of achievement and to complete the require submission recording sheet at the end of each term.
• AQA co-ordinator is responsible to offer guidance and support to all teaching staff in relation to AQA assessments and the submission of completed units.
• AQA co-ordinator is responsible to evaluate the submissions from teachers, and to carry out audits, in order to complete the final admissions, claim form by the end of each term.
• AQA co-ordinator is responsible for the completion of monitoring assessment requests if chosen from the AQA gateway on a random spot check by the AQA gateway submissions.
• AQA co-ordinator is responsible for receiving the completed certificates and compiling students personal port folios.

Agreed Practise:

• All teaching staff to plan and deliver lessons in accordance with the unit requirements.
• All teaching and support staff to gather relevant evidence to support learning of unit requirements.
• All teaching staff to check evidence and cross reference against students learning journeys. Before the completion of AQA summary sheets.

Contact:

Christine Walton - how2careers@gmail.com 

Christine will be in Riverwalk on a fortnightly basis every Tuesday and parents can contact her via her email address, which is listed above, or by phoning the Riverwalk office on 01284 764280.

Review:

The programme will be reviewed annually. The next review date is September 2024.