Dundonald High School

Young people on the XL Programme work towards Award and Certificate sized qualifications in Personal Development and Teamwork; the qualifications are offered and awarded by The Prince's Trust which is recognized as an awarding body by Ofqual.

With the qualification in Personal Development and Teamwork, The Prince's Trust seeks to:

• Ensure young people have every opportunity to seek formal recognition of their skills and achievements.
• Provide an excellent support network for our partners to ensure they are able to achieve the best possible results for the young people.
• Enable young people to set and achieve goals in a relatively short timeframe. xl club member's first work towards the Award and may then go on to work towards the Certificate.

How does the qualification work?

The XL Programme supports learners within Foundation Learning and the qualification in Personal Development and Teamwork appears in the Foundation Learning catalogue.
The qualification supports the delivery of both vocational learning and personal and social development as part of a young person's personalized learning programme. The qualification is made up of units and each unit is made up of a number of learning outcomes which must be achieved to the standard defined by the assessment criteria. Young people on the XL Programme record their work in a portfolio of evidence which may include photographs, electronic media, witness statements and written material. In this way they are able to capture their achievements and, guided by the xl club adviser, map them against the assessment criteria in a unit.