Post 16 support

Building the curriculum 5 A Frame work for assessment highlights; 16+ Learning Choices aims to ensure that all young people have an offer of appropriate post-16 learning along with the necessary support to enable them to move into positive and sustainable destinations. Ensuring appropriate information, advice and guidance along with the necessary support and more choices and more chances for those learners who need them, will be an important part of providing an inclusive approach to learning, teaching and assessment in the senior phase.

Transitions will be covered in the next section but it is extremely important

• To ensure that all appropriate information about the assessment arrangements which have been evidenced and provided for the learner is included in the learner’s profile.
• The learner understands why they have each type of assessment arrangement and how to use it. For example extra time is not provided just so the learner can write more. It is there to support the task preparation and completion e.g.
• scaffolding and planning
• proof reading their answers
• additional processing time

Ensuring that the learner and their family have a copy of the SQA assessment arrangements which were in place at school will:

• Support and inform the post school transition process.
• Reduce the length of time it takes to establish the appropriate support post school
• Reduce the need for the post school establishment to contact the school for information. This can be a very time consuming process and may provide the information sought due to data protection issues if the learner has not given prior consent for their information to be shared.