Key Steps
What is it?
The Key Steps Award is a comprehensive programme of activities in a range of topic areas covering Citizenship, PSHE, Environment Education, Personal Finance Education, Enterprise and Internationalism.
Who is it for?
The activities are aimed at the 10-14 age group and can be used in schools, youth or training centres and alternative education. They are presented in the form of Personal Challenges and encourage students to develop their personal skills and take responsibility for their own learning.
Structure
Activities, or Personal Challenges, can be selected from any of the nine modules:
- Identity
- Community
- Health
- Citizenship
- Environment
- Personal Finance
- Enterprise
- Values
- international
Students must complete 30-35 hours of challenges to achieve their certificate. The flexibility and range of the Key Steps Award means that it can be followed for up to three years or for less than one year. Students may achieve any number of certificates.
Evidence of all the Personal Challenges completed are collated in a portfolio of evidence, along with the Award Book and recording documents (Action Plans, Reviews and Summaries of Skills Achievements).
Assessment
Certificates are awarded by ASDAN following successful internal moderation of students' portfolios and the submission of candidate names via the Secure Area of the website.
Progression
Completion of the Key Steps Award can count as two of the six credits needed to achieve the Bronze Award or two of the 12 credits needed to achieve the Silver/Gold Awards or the Certificate of Personal Effectiveness qualification (CoPE).
Training
For details of forthcoming Key Steps introductory workshops, click here.
Key Steps Award Book
Click the thumbnails below for sample pages from the student book:
FAQ
Q: How much does Key Steps cost?
A: Click here to access the costs page, which features information about registration costs for Key Steps. Please also take into account the annual centre registration fee, if your centre is not yet registered with ASDAN.
NB To register for ASDAN Short Course Awards only - including Key Steps - there is a reduced annual centre registration fee of £55 + VAT (£64.63).
Q: How can my centre start running Key Steps?
A: If you are not yet registered with ASDAN, your first step is to complete an Application for Centre Registration Form.
Current ASDAN centres need to ensure that Key Steps is added to their centre's registration. To do this, please complete an Additional Networks Registration Form.
Following registration, you will be able to access additional resources and guidance via the secure area of the ASDAN website.
ASDAN also provides introductory training workshops and can arrange in-house training.
Secure Area for registered centres
Once your centre is registered with ASDAN for Key Steps, you can access further information and resources via the website's Secure Area.
It contains all relevant updates, essential documents and resources, and enables you to:
- Register candidate names
- Purchase materials from the online ASDAN catalogue
- Check the list of candidates registered from your centre
There is no limit to the number of people from a centre who can register for a Secure Area password.
You can register for a password online, by clicking here to access the request form.
Further information
If you would like to discuss Key Steps in more detail, please contact Barbara Benson or Maggie Walker.