Awards

Certification

They will receive a certificate showing their name, their challenge and the hours completed. The certificate will also show the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) level and credit points.

Youth Scotland YAA

Youth Scotland Youth Achievement Awards (YAA) are accessible and flexible awards that provide a framework to recognise and accredit personal learning and achievement within existing or planned activities. The YAA has been credit rated and levelled by the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) on the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) levels 4 – 7 and is recorded on a young person’s Scottish Qualifications Certificate alongside their school and college qualifications. It also gains Insight Tariff Points.

The young person identifies an activity or ‘challenge’ that they would like to be involved in, the level of responsibility they would like to undertake and set themselves personal targets to work towards. On completion of their challenge, they review their progress and reflect upon how they have benefited from the plan-do-review approach to their learning and the skills they have gained or developed rather than just record the activities they have been involved in. 

There are four levels of the Youth Achievement Award; Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum based on the level of responsibility a young person undertakes within activities. At Bronze they take part in organised activities, at Silver they help to plan and deliver activities, at Gold they lead activities for others and at Platinum they create learning opportunities for others. Young people enter at the level appropriate to their interests and abilities; they are not required to work through the lower levels to access the higher levels.