Learning Community Groups of Enquiry - Highland: Invergordon

Key features of Recognising Achievement

• Achievements should be as valuable as qualifications.

• The focus must be on learning and reflection, not activities.

• Learners must have ownership of their achievements and what they choose to include.

• Recognition of achievement must involve talking with and supporting young people.

• Any approach must support young people at risk of disengagement and in need of more choices, more chances, and must not widen the gap between the advantaged and the disadvantaged.

• The implications and practicalities of recognising achievement for schools and learning communities need to be explored more fully. 

• There is a need to develop common understandings and language across wider learning communities.