College
All students from Year 11 and upwards use the AQA Unit Award Scheme. Rather than a qualification, the scheme offers learners the opportunity to have their achievements formally recognised with a certificate each time a short unit of learning has been successfully completed. The link to the AQA award scheme can be found here: https://www.aqa.org.uk/programmes/unit-award-scheme
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.