Gold Award
What are the ASDAN Awards?
ASDAN Award Programmes offer imaginative ways of developing, recording and certificating a wide range of young people’s personal qualities, abilities and achievements, as well as introducing them to new activities and challenges. All the programmes link to nationally recognised qualifications, which contribute to performance tables.
Who is the Gold Award for?
- Students in Years 10 & 11 progressing beyond the Silver Award
- Students in post-16 education, embarking on A Levels, GNVQs (advanced or intermediate) or GCSE resits
- Gifted and talented groups at KS3
Structure
Students select a number of challenges from the 12 modules that make up the Gold Award programme:
- Information Transmission
- The Community
- Sport and Leisure
- Independent Living
- Economic and Consumer Issues
- Handling Numbers
- Healthy Living
- Work-related Activities
- Science and Technology
- International Links
- Expressive Arts
- Beliefs and Ethics
Modules are divided into sections and students gain credits for each section completed. One credit represents about 10 hours of activity. To achieve the Gold Award, students must gain a minimum of 12 credits, showing evidence of action planning, recording of achievments and reviewing. Credits can also be acquired from other ASDAN programmes, such as the Silver Award or Short Courses.
Students need to demonstrate competence in the Wider Key Skills at Level 2 (Working with Others, Improving Own Learning and Problem Solving) and must provide a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate awareness of all of the activities they have undertaken.
Assessment
After students' portfolios have been internally moderated, centres must register candidates names for external moderation at least four weeks in advance of a regional moderation meeting. ASDAN will issue certificates following successful moderation.
Progression routes
The Gold Award counts as half of the curriculum credits (six) required for ASDAN’s Certificate of Personal Effectiveness (CoPE) at Level 2, which is worth 46 points in the achievement and attainment tables. Progression to the Wider Key Skills qualifications is also available.
Training
For details of forthcoming ASDAN Awards Programmes introductory workshops, click here.
Gold Award Book
Click on the thumbnails below for sample pages from the student book:
FAQ
Q: How much do the ASDAN Awards Programmes cost?
A: Click here to access the costs page, which features information about registration costs for the Award Programmes. Please also take into account the annual centre registration fee, if your centre is not yet registered with ASDAN.
Q: How can my centre start running the Award Programmes?
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 the Award Programmes are 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 the ASDAN Awards, you can access further information and resources via the website's Secure Area.
It contains all relevant updates, essential documents, meeting information and resources, and enables you to:
- Download resources, including guidance and checklists
- Register your candidate names
- View updated support meeting dates
- 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.