LAUNCH ASDAN · the full term

The five ASDAN strands run in parallel across Autumn 1. Personal Effectiveness is the PEQ spine: this half-term completes Communication skills (ComSk1), and the full-year strand homes all six Level 1 units, so the pathway works toward a PEQ L1 Award / Extended Award / Certificate (Entry 3 is the working level for 2026/27; Level 1 is the stretch tier for the few pupils above it, and a staff-directed Level 2 route sits in-deck — registration at any level stays a coordinator decision). The other four strands bank ASDAN short courses (Careers & Experiencing Work, Living Independently, Hospitality / Gardening, Community / Active Citizenship) with AQA UAS (unit unconfirmed), and give the PEQ skills real contexts to be evidenced in. Every lesson runs the v5 studio chassis with the printable Assessor Witness Statement.

Accreditation facts for staff (spec v1.2). Entry 3 sizes (the primary route for this cohort): Award 4 credits (all at level) · Extended Award 9 (min 6 at level) · Certificate 14 (min 11 at level). All six E3 units = exactly 14 credits, every one at level, so a full year homes an E3 Certificate outright with no adjacent-credit accounting at all. Level 1 sizes (the stretch route, for the 2–4 pupils working above Entry 3): Award 4 · Extended Award 9 · Certificate 14 (max 3 adjacent-level credits — in practice only one adjacent unit can ever count); all six L1 units = 15 credits. SMART is introduced but NOT assessed at Entry 3 team working — the SMART minimum sits only at TmWkSk1, so no task may gate the E3 unit on producing SMART targets. Partial achievement still certificates at unit level. The 10-hour plan-use window applies to every skill except Communication. RPL reaches back three years and can include ASDAN Short Course achievement. Assessment records need assessor and learner signatures; IQA before EQA; the first-year EQA sampling visit must be booked during this first delivery year (coordinator action). Unit and level attribution is the centre coordinator’s decision — nothing is promised to a learner. Hospitality here is the ASDAN Hospitality Vocational Taster, which ASDAN is withdrawing: register and buy books by 31 December 2026; final certification 31 August 2027. Gardening is an ordinary Short Course and is unaffected.