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 provide 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.
Progress File Materials
Progress Files can still be ordered locally through a bulk order
scheme that Connexions/VESA have set up. Click
here for details on the Progress File materials.
The key stage materials are still available to download
- Getting Started (KS3)
- Moving On (KS4)
- Widening
Horizons (KS5)
At a Progress File Event on 11th July 2007, Charlie Corcoran of Longslade
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 at the Connexions CLAS
Team on 0116 2615920.
On-line Progress File and Individual Learning Plans
VESA, in collaboration with
Loughborough College and a group of schools, have trialled a project
to use a web version of Progress File linked to an electronic individual
learning plan (ILP).
This coming academic year 2007/8 it will be rolled out to further interested
schools.
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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