Outward Bound Trust Community Leadership Award

Why this award?

Currently this Award is only available to participants within the Outward Bound Trust’s Mark Scott Award, as an optional path for development. This is a 5-day residential course, followed by a 3-4 months community action student run project, and is credit rated at SCQF Level 7 with 9 credit points and recognised by Insights Scotland. It builds on the experience of the Level 6 Teams and SCQF Level 6 Leaders Award with an additional 2 units and increased reflection, project management, and action planning within the community project element.

The Award supports learning within SQA Leadership, Higher Business Studies and Psychology and comprises of 10 units:

• Improve confidence and apply understanding of your reactions and feel increased control
• Develop skills in setting and achieving personal goals.
• Increase self-awareness and personal responsibility.
• Increase awareness of other people and utilise this to develop self and others
• Improve ability to work with other people, and foster high performance team development
• Increase concern for and awareness of the natural environment and the leave no trace principles
• Develop an action plan.
• Design and implement your own learning
• Identify your values and act on them
• Understand how effective teams work in reality

Who is it for?

The Award is currently undertaken by participants in the Mark Scott Award.

What time commitment is required?

The programme takes place over the final school year and normally involves the following level of indicative time commitment (with modification for 2020/21 in response to COVID_19 restrictions):

• a 5-day residential course in the late summer or autumn
• a project group meeting every week for the duration of the programme
• an evening Project Forum
• any necessary fundraising events
• three project delivery days.
• a final review meeting with their Project Coordinator
• The Award Ceremony in the spring

Is the award externally accredited?

The awards sits on the SCQF at level 7, with 9 credit points. 

The assessment is continuous and incorporates not just the activities but journeying, community living and formal classroom work as well.

The learning is evidenced as follows:

1. Performance evidence: the instructor completes an activity log covering a range of activity undergone by the participants.
2. Written evidence: the candidate completes the learning journal by answering reflective questions around working with others, team generation and psychology
3. Written evidence: the candidate writes an action plan at the end of the residential training course and another at the end of the Award.
4. Product evidence: photographs are taken of group work collaboratively developed throughout the Award.