Progress File

What are Progress File processes?

Progress File processes are designed to help young people and adults plan and manage their own learning and develop skills to:

  • Record their achievements
  • Review their progress
  • Recognise their potential
  • Identify realistic goals and targets
  • Reflect upon their strengths and weaknesses
  • Present themselves effectively

Originally, DCSF supplied learning organisations with interactive materials to support this process aimed at different key stages, as well as materials for adults.  Many schools adapted these materials and are still using them.

DCSF also supplied a Progress File ring binder and presenter. 

The ring binder is used to store working documents.  The presenter is a slim folder that may be used to hold selected documents for presentation to a third party (eg job/college).

Although DCSF no longer provides any of these materials, many learning organisations, rightly, regard these processes as a vital part of pulling together an increasingly diverse curriculum for students, as well as a means for students to present themselves effectively.

At a Progress File event Charlie Corcoran of Longslade Community College and Dave Mitchell of Anstey Martin High School ran a session around Progress File and transition and kindly agreed to make available the progress file materials they have adapted for their family of schools.

To download a copy of these materials in word, please click on link below.

Longslade Family of Schools Progress File Achievement Planner

Local Perspective

At present, the majority of schools in Leicester and Leicestershire use Progress File processes.  Some FE and 6th form colleges also use the processes.

Connexions Leicester Shire and VESA have collaborated in sourcing a local Progress File ring binder and presenter, which schools can buy at a preferential rate as part of a bulk order scheme.  For more details of this, please contact Cathy Sibley of the Connexions CEdIT Team on 0116 2615920.

Other resources

Passportfolio - developed by Connexions Nottinghamshire is now available as a free resource www.passportfolio.com

LDD

Ashmount and Nether Hall Schools were involved in a project aimed at integrating Person Centred Planning and transition planning (led by Connexions); linked to Progress File. 

Progress File and Higher Education

There is a requirement that Higher Education Institutions undertake Personal Development Planning with their students.  Although not called Progress File, the process is the same.

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