Personal Growth & Wellbeing is offered to identified students as part of the Y9 Options process. This course provides additional support with the development of social and emotional skills and supports students to access appropriate Post 16 Options and develop lifelong learning skills.

Why study this BTEC course?
The Pearson BTEC Level 2 in Personal Growth and Wellbeing qualifications are designed around practical skills and tasks that place an emphasis on learners’ personal responses to everyday life situations and scenarios. Learners are encouraged to reflect and demonstrate their understanding.

The qualifications give learners the opportunity to acquire and develop generic and transferable skills in order to complete tasks and demonstrate a level of achievement at Level 2, which enables them to progress to further learning or employment.

Description of the course – WE COVER THE FOLLOWING UNITS.

UNIT 7 Developing resilient behaviour
Challenging situations are common factors in our lives and how you deal with them will be based on your level of understanding, knowledge and skills. In dealing with these challenging situations, you may need to demonstrate assertiveness to respond effectively and not give up when faced with difficult situations/scenarios. Dealing with these situation/scenarios effectively will help protect your health and wellbeing. In this unit, you will develop knowledge and understanding of resilience and assertiveness and their importance. You will also consider your responses to difficult situations and how to resolve them. 

UNIT 5 Investigating personal identity
Understanding personal identity becomes especially important as we develop from childhood, through the teenage years and into adulthood. Recognising that everyone is different and accepting these differences plays an important part of our society today and supports personal growth and wellbeing. In this unit, you will review what makes you individual, the factors influencing your personal identity and how you can function well in society. You will review your own personal identity and consider how you can positively contribute to society.

UNIT 12 Producing a long-term progression plan
Creating a personal progression plan can help you to prepare for the future and provide direction towards achieving your personal and professional goals and support personal growth and wellbeing. For a progression plan to be useful to you, it should reflect where you are today and where you want to be in the future. It should also help you to identify short-, mid- and long-term tasks to aid your progression. In this unit, you will develop an understanding of the connection between your own skills, qualities, experience and aspirations and possible career opportunities. You will explore potential further learning and initial career opportunities, information and resources and evaluate them in terms of relevance to your own progression in order to develop a detailed personal progression plan. 

UNIT 2 Appreciating emotional wellbeing
Our emotional wellbeing is a very important part of all our daily lives. It is about recognising our emotional responses and how these impact on social situations. You might feel anxious preparing for a test or exam and become irritable with everyone around you. You need to understand how to deal with this in order to ensure your own healthy emotional wellbeing and not impact negatively on others. Being able to address your feelings and emotions will help you manage your emotional wellbeing throughout your life. In this unit, you will appreciate why it is important to understand emotional wellbeing to keep you healthy and to support others. You will have the opportunity in this unit to reflect on how you and others may respond to situations in order to maintain healthy emotional wellbeing.

UNIT 9 Being financially aware
We all face different choices when we finish full-time education. Some people may carry on learning in a further or higher education college or be accepted into university. You may go onto an apprenticeship programme to work and study at the same time. The appeal of working for yourself may interest some people or part-time work may be more appropriate in meeting personal needs. Whatever choice you make, you will anticipate receiving money for the work you do or support for your studies. The amount of money you receive will vary depending on what you do but there is also support for those receiving a low income. Being financially aware will help with your personal growth and wellbeing. In this unit, you will consider how you can earn money in different ways. You will explore what different financial terms mean in relation to earning money such as salary, bonuses, bursary, grant, pension, benefits. The unit will also help you understand the information given on your payslip including tax codes, National Insurance, gross pay and net pay.

How the course is assessed
The format of assessment is an assignment taken after the content of the unit, or part of the unit, has been delivered. An assignment may take a variety of forms, including practical and written types and can be split into tasks. An assignment is a distinct activity completed independently by learners. It is separate from teaching, practice, exploration and other activities that learners. An assessment is issued to learners as an assignment brief with a defined start date, a completion date and clear requirements for the evidence that the learner needs to provide. There may be specific observed practical components during the assignment period. Assignments can be divided into tasks and may require several forms of evidence. A valid assignment will enable a clear and formal assessment outcome based on the assessment criteria.

Curriculum Plan
The Curriculum plan for Personal Growth & Wellbeing can be viewed from the link below.