Personal Development and Employability Skills Level 1 (Princes Trust)

The course gives you an opportunity to develop personal skills and attributes that are essential for life and employment. It allows personal growth through a range of units designed to prepare you for progression onto further education and future employment.

There will be costs to buy cooking ingredients for course-specific books and travel costs to work placements for work experience.

You will study a range of units designed to build your skills. These may include:

• Career planning

• Customer service

• Community impact

• Planning for personal development

• Teamwork skills

• Work experience

• Personal project

• Presentation skills

• Preparing for a healthy lifestyle

• Sustainability

You will build a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate your knowledge and skills. The units are assessed through a variety of activities and evidenced through written tasks, posters, photographic evidence of events, practical's, and group tasks. The evidence can be linked to your own personal interests and learning style.

This course is for students who have achieved grades 1/2 at GCSE.

You can continue with your studies onto another level, for example, Level 2 or you may wish to study a further Level 1 depending on your personal requirements.