Evidence of your development

During your apprenticeship you will be supported to develop the knowledge skills and behaviours that are set out in your Apprenticeship Standard.

You will use an E-portfolio to prepare all the requirements to pass through a gateway and then sit an End Point Assessment.

Your Work-based Learning Coach, Module Leaders and critically your Mentor in your place of employment will all support you on that journey. The nature and timing of that support might vary, including technical, academic, motivation and general guidance.

A key to success will be your approach to using that support and seeking to collect high quality evidence of your development and achievements.

You will be given plenty of instruction on how to use your E-portfolio and to prepare for the End Point Assessment.

This video helps to explain what we mean by evidence and how this can sometimes be drawn from university assignments, but actually, the best evidence of knowledge, skills and behaviours is usually from experience at work. Sometimes that experience is planned, or negotiated, but often your growth will happen through mistakes, random challenges and surprising success that will be a rich part of your apprenticeship journey.

There will be opportunities to discuss and compare your progress and evidence with you peers.  It is important to uphold principles of confidentiality and respect during these conversations:

• Students (Apprentices) and staff will engage in peer to peer learning in good faith.
• Students (Apprentices) will take all due care not to share sensitive, or confidential information without first concealing the identity of all relevant parties. This includes informal discourse and submissions for assessment.
• Where necessary, the submission of work will indicate which parts of the submission are to be treated as sensitive.
• All participants will treat any discussions, submissions of work, sharing of case studies, or expression of opinion (etc.) with respect.
• Any matters that are highlighted, or could be considered as confidential and/or include commercially sensitive information about an individual, a participant, stakeholder or an organisation will not be shared beyond their immediate purpose in the educational setting.

You can check the ground rules with your tutors during your programme.