Kitchen Programme · PEQ Year Map & Scheme of Work

Full year 2026–27 · three level lanes (Entry 3 · Level 1 · Level 2) · one kitchen, one class

The hours, stated honestly

The live 12-week deck suite is the knowledge-and-assessment spine, not the hours. Measured, it contributes 8.0 GLH: 12 live decks (LAUNCH_ASDAN/PEQ W1-6 + GROW_ASDAN/PEQ W1-6) x one timetabled 40-minute period each = 480 min = 8.0 GLH. The period length is the estate's timetable unit (the science chassis is named v3_40min; GROW PEQ runs Thursday P4, one period). The decks PROGRAM 53 min of slide time each (sum of data-timer values on every deck's 10 slides) - i.e. they over-program the slot; the GLH claimed is the supervised 40-minute slot, never the programme. Deck-to-unit assignment follows each deck's own banking line. Against that: ComSkE3 alone is 30 GLH, and the smallest qualification (the E3 Award) is 40 GLH. The guided hours therefore come from the planned year — the kitchen practicals, the challenge blocks, supervised tutor-time application — because GLH counts any taught or supervised time toward the unit, including assessment by the centre assessor (spec §9 p16, §5.1 p9).

Weekly PEQ hours — MEASURED from the school's own 2026-27 timetable. This is no longer derived from planners and no longer chosen by ruling: the owner supplied the real timetable, and it supersedes both. Every figure below cites a workbook cell in _passpq/TIMETABLE_2026-27.md. The period unit is 40 minutes, read off the timetable's own time column; check-in, daily reading, break, lunch and check-out are not guided slots, which is what the workbooks' own note says too.

The classification rule, printed so it can be argued with. (a) a slot whose label literally says ASDAN or PEQ — the floor. (b) carryable: PfA, Community/enterprise, Careers, Vocational/practical, Enrichment/outdoor, Catch-up — the ceiling. (c) English, Maths, Science, PE, Behaviour Intervention, RE/Humanities/Citizenship/Creative arts/ICT/PSHE/RSHE, which bank their own subjects. A slot that reads plausibly as both, or on which the two workbooks disagree, is owner-decision and is counted in neither figure.

Sensitivity: what each weekly commitment can honestly deliver (38 weeks)

Every row is a whole count of the school's real 40-minute timetabled slots, across the band the timetable actually supports (1–8 slots). The shaded row is the measured rate — the eight carryable slots each room independently has. This table is what a change to the timetable is read off: lose two slots and the row two above is the honest answer.

“Short” = the gap between the lane's unit-GLH requirement and the year's physical hours, after the ledger's recorded co-delivery netting (E3 7 h · L1 2 h — a netting the year map has since withdrawn; see the lane-target note). The shaded eight-slot row is the live plan, and it is measured — from the school's own 2026-27 timetable, with a workbook cell cited for every slot in _passpq/TIMETABLE_2026-27.md. Nothing on this page rests on a derived band or an owner ruling any more; both are retired.

Staged certification — milestones, not promises

Each stage is proven in the ledger: the constituent units' GLH is fully banked by the milestone week, and the credits are stated against the rule of combination (min-at-level and max-3-adjacent hold in every row — each stage below is all-at-level). Every lane follows the same ladder: Award by Christmas (W14) → Extended Award by Easter (W26) → Certificate by summer (W38), built from Decision making + Team working, then + Communication + Learning, then + Thinking/Critical thinking + Wellbeing.

The L1 14-of-15 choice, named. DECIDED (centre orchestration, PEQ-YEAR-1 s3). The L1 Certificate is 14 credits while the six L1 units sum to 15. THE CENTRE TEACHES AND EVIDENCES ALL SIX L1 UNITS - 15 credits, every one at level; spec s5.1 permits exceeding the 14 minimum. This is a choice already made, not an open question. The fallback, if a pupil is stretched by L1 Thinking (the largest E3-to-L1 step: assumptions + primary/secondary sources) or an exact-14 claim is later preferred, is the five other L1 units (12 cr at L1) + ThSkE3 (2 cr adjacent) = 14 - the only exact-14 arithmetic, with min-11-at-level and max-3-below both satisfied. Which shape is CLAIMED is stated to ASDAN at names-confirmation, ~4 weeks before EQA sampling; that is a normal step in the EQA cycle, not a decision still to be taken.

Centre orchestration — decided, not deferred

Thinking vs Critical thinking — the lane split. The E3 and L1 lanes plan ThSkE3 / ThSk1 (Thinking skills); only the L2 lane plans CrThSk2 (Critical thinking skills) — the unit changes name, code and demand at Level 2 (spec pp11–13). The shared summer investigation runs at three demands: E3/L1 pupils work their Thinking plan; the L2 pupil assesses sources for credibility, accuracy and bias across ≥2 sources, primary vs secondary (the blind taste test is the primary source).

The six blocks — one spine, three demands

Every plan opens early enough that its 10-hour window closes with headroom before its evaluation week (the ledger below carries the minutes); every review point has a named week; every assessment criterion lands on a week in the coverage matrix.

What each room's real hours can reach

Read each cell as floor / ceiling: the first mark is the room's explicitly ASDAN-labelled slots alone, the second adds the carryable ones. The test is the stricter of the two the spec carries — the sum of the constituent units' GLH, which is what the ledger must actually bank, not the qualification's own published figure.

The kitchen — what the timetable actually gives

The ruling: the kitchen is a context, not a room booking. It runs across each lane's carryable practical cluster, and those sessions are named here slot by slot so nobody has to guess which lesson is a kitchen lesson.

No unit depends on hours that do not exist. The kitchen cluster carries the Award at every level in every lane, and at Launch the Extended Award too. Units the kitchen hours cannot reach are banked in the lane's other carryable slots — Careers, Community/enterprise, Enrichment and Catch-up — which is what the week-by-week ledger below allocates. Teacher attribution is printed above because it is not settled: the cooking slot is the Science Teacher's on the timetable, while the owner has said a colleague will teach and resource cooking. That is not assumed to be a swap. OUTSTANDING FOR MATT: confirm who teaches the cooking slot(s) in September.

The GLH ledger — every week × lane, minutes per unit

Times are h:mm of supervised time attributed per unit (spec §9 p16). Physical is the timetabled 5:20 (eight 40-minute periods). A co-delivered entry is the same physical session banked to a second unit, declared here and justified above; the unit columns include it, the physical column does not. QA is supervised portfolio/IQA/EQA time not attributed to a unit (L2 lane headroom).

Entry 3 lane — the cohort

Level 1 lane — the 2–4 working above

Level 2 lane — the directed few (LAUNCH L2 route)

The resource set (print-first, this folder)

• Criteria coverage matrix — every AC of all 18 units ↦ week + artefact (zero gaps, proven at build)
• Plan templates — six skills × three levels, level-correct elements (E3 without review points; L1/L2 with)
• Portfolio evidence sheets — per unit per level, assessor/learner/date + IQA sample box
• Assessor criteria checklists — tick-per-AC with the lane's own minima printed
• Plan-hours tracking grid — the five 10-hour windows, lane column
• Staff guide — the Level-2 route on one page, progression ladder, budget bands, kit, safety, safeguarding

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