The below is suggestions of things to consider working towards under each of the four pillars: 

Employment

• Talk about different careers and higher education options.
• Access to career-related role models.
• Start to build a personal vocational profile of interests and ambitions.
• School sessions with visitors on their careers.

Independent living

• Understanding money. For example, paying for snacks in school.
• Sleep-overs and residential trips.
• Cooking at school and at home.
• Going shopping.
• Moving around the school independently.
• Travel training.
• Transport and understanding road signs.

Community inclusion

• Youth and after-school clubs.
• Learning to be safe on and offline.
• Knowing the local area.
• Walking short distances alone.
• Friendships.
• Understanding bullying.
• Managing change.

Health

• Managing minor health needs. For example, asthma
• Starting puberty
• Immunisations (BCG)
• Obesity check
• Articulating pain/health problems

Employment

• Child understands and talks about different careers and education options. This is so that they are able to make choices about what they will do next.
• Child has begun to develop a profile of interests and aspirations. This demonstrates individual strengths and skills.

Independence

• Child understands the concept of money. Demonstrating awareness that different objects are of different monetary values. They are beginning to use money to pay for items such as snacks in school.
• Child has begun to understand concepts related to travel and transport. They are aware of the role of the below in facilitating independent travel.:
  • paying for a ticket/pass
  • timetables
  • road signs
• Child understands the concept of recipes relating to preparation of food. They can follow the recipe with adult support to make simple foods. For example, cupcakes or sandwiches.

Community inclusion

• Child understands the importance of being safe within the local community, including online. They have begun to understand potential areas of risk and ways to take steps to avoid these. For example, strangers, online hazards and bullying.
• Child is familiar with the local area, including particular places and routes of travel. This enables hem to begin to understand where they are going and how to get there.

Health

• Child understands the purpose of vaccinations and cooperates to ensure good medical health.
• Child understands changes to their body associated with puberty. They are aware of self-care routines required to maintain good physical health.
• Child understands minor health needs that they may have and the strategies/resources to manage these. For example, asthma, eczema and difficulties with vision and/or hearing.

Employment

• Child demonstrates the ability to articulate their ideas in relation to different career and education options. They have the communication skills required to ask questions to support them in moving towards making choices.
• Child engages with career-related role models/sessions on different career paths from visitors in school. This further increases their understanding of potential options/areas of interest.

Independence

• As a step towards independent living, the child demonstrates the communication and interaction skills required to:
  • ask for things that they would like
  • to pay for things in a shop or a school lunch hall
• Child demonstrates communication skills required to help the development of age-related independent living skills. This includes:
  • cookery
  • travel time
  • money
  • being able to ask questions and seek support/guidance where required

Community inclusion

• Child demonstrates communication and interaction skills required to develop/maintain friendships with peers.
• Child demonstrates the ability to interact and communicate with peers. This enables them to take part in team games, youth and after-school clubs.
• Child demonstrates the language and communication skills required to outline any issues relating to bullying or safety online to an adult.

Health

• Child demonstrates the language and communication skills required to explain the issue to an adult at times when they are hurt or feel unwell. This allows them to access appropriate medical care as required.
• Child demonstrates the language and communication skills required to enable them to articulate choices relating to diet and physical exercise.

Employment

• Child interacts with peers. They make and maintain friendships with others to support emotional wellbeing.
• Child is aware of structures in place to support social and emotional wellbeing. They access these as required.
• Child shows awareness of different feelings and emotions. With support, they can identify and apply appropriate strategies to manage these.

Independence

• Child maintains friendships with peers and accesses community-based clubs/after-school clubs. This promotes independence and emotional wellbeing.
• Child demonstrates the social skills necessary to participate in sleepovers and residential trips.
• Child demonstrates the ability to manage their feelings and emotions whilst accessing support to apply strategies as appropriate.

Community inclusion

• Child maintains friendships with peers to support emotional wellbeing and avoid isolation.
• Child has begun to identify bullying within relationships. They can identify support and strategies to manage this.
• Child demonstrates the ability to manage social and emotional responses to change.
• Child demonstrates awareness and understanding of strategies and precautions to remain safe online. 

Health

• Child understands physical changes associated with the onset of puberty. They will manage these appropriately, with support as required. The child will maintain social and emotional wellbeing.
• With support, child accesses strategies to manage any emotional or mental health needs associated with their physical or mental health conditions/diagnoses.

Employment

Child can access careers information and opportunities to meet role models/talks from visitors to school. This is achieved through adaptations and formats which consider physical, sensory or medical needs as appropriate to individual circumstances. 

Independence

• Child demonstrates the ability to move around the school environment as required.
• Child has begun to develop age-appropriate life skills. This includes the following in line with their physical and medical capabilities:
  • basic cooking skills
  • awareness of transport and requirements for travel (For example, tickets and timetables)
  • money

Community inclusion

Child can access after-school clubs, youth groups, sports teams and community-based groups. This is in line with their physical and medical capabilities.

Health

• Child is able to manage minor health needs.
• Child makes healthy eating choices and will engage in physical exercise in line with their physical/medical capabilities