Bronze/ Silver Award

What are the ASDAN Awards?

ASDAN is a pioneering curriculum development organisation and awarding body, offering programmes and qualifications that explicitly grow skills for learning, skills for employment and skills for life. ASDAN is approved as an Awarding Organisation for qualifications within the National Qualifications Framework and the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) also recognise the value of ASDAN programmes in developing and providing evidence for the Scottish “Core Skills” (particularly Working with Others), with a number of qualifications listed in the Scottish Credit Qualifications Framework (SCQF).

ASDAN Award Programmes offer imaginative ways of developing, recording and certificating a wide range of young people’s personal qualities, abilities and achievements, as well as introducing them to new activities and challenges. All the programmes link to nationally recognised qualifications, which contribute to performance tables.

Structure

Students select a number of challenges from the 12 modules that make up the Bronze/Silver Award programme:

• Information Handling
• The Community
• Sport and Leisure
• Home Management
• The Environment
• Number Handling
• Health and Survival
• World of Work
• Technology
• The Wider World
• Expressive Arts
• Beliefs and Value

Students gain 1 or 2 credits for each section completed, with each credit representing about 10 hours of activity

Six credits (approx. 60 hours) are needed to complete the Bronze.

Students are required to plan and review their work at key points and these Action Plans and Reviews form part of the portfolio of evidence, which also documents the completion of challenges undertaken.

Assessment

After students’ portfolios have been internally moderated, centres must register candidate’s names for external moderation at least four weeks in advance of a regional moderation meeting. ASDAN will issue certificates following successful moderation.

The Bronze Award at Cardinal Newman High School (CNHS)

In CNHS, all pupils in S1 pupils work towards the ASDAN Bronze Award as part of their curriculum. The award is delivered through an interdepartmental approach by five departments – Maths, English, RE, Modern Languages and PE – who deliver challenges from modules such as, Number Handling, Beliefs and Values and The Wider World.

Once complete, the evidence of this work is compiled into a portfolio for each pupil, and following successful external moderation pupils are then given the Bronze Award Certificate – a formal recognition of skills for learning, life and work.