Personal & Social Development

ADDRESSING DIFFICULTIES

This course embraces personal, social, health, citizenship and ICT, and enables candidates to develop skills that prepare them for independence and working life.

The Personal and Social Development (PSD) qualifications offer imaginative ways of supporting students in becoming confident individuals who are physically, emotionally and socially healthy being responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society and embrace change managing risk together with their own wellbeing as well as introducing them to new activities and personal challenges. The qualification is credit-based and candidates will study a wide range of units aimed at personal, social development. Candidates must complete 13 credits worth of units to achieve the full qualification.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

The course is aimed at high needs students who are working at Entry 1 or towards Entry 2 who have minimal or no formal qualifications. Students will have an interview prior to enrolment and will undertake an assessment to ascertain current levels.

ASSESSMENT

Students complete a portfolio of evidence which is internally assessed by college assessors against the unit assessment criteria. There is a mandatory Assessment Checklist provided for each unit that needs to be signed off by the tutor in order to complete a unit. Checklists must also be signed by the candidate, assessor and internal moderator to authenticate the work added to each candidate’s portfolio of evidence.