Today you are reflecting: looking honestly at how you show up across schoolwork, relationships, self-management and wellbeing. You will rate six concrete rows under those four headings: academic work and focus; working with other people; speaking up and contributing; managing myself; handling setbacks; and physical wellbeing and energy. A self-audit is a snapshot, not a verdict. The same person can look different at seventeen and at twenty-five. Your job is simple and strict: every strength and every development area must carry one real occasion, a day, a task or a moment that actually happened. No adjective without a story.

These three terms shape everything you write today. Read them once, then keep the evidence rule in mind: a claim without a moment does not count.

You are building your Self-audit entry for the Digital Portfolio. Open or create it in your Strand 1.1 folder (Personal development: the portfolio folder you started in lessons 1 and 2). Use the filename Self-audit. Save it under Strand 1.1: it stays there as portfolio evidence and becomes the development-area menu you will use next lesson when you set a longer-horizon goal.

First work the interactive: rate yourself across the six areas and give one specific occasion for every rating. A row without evidence stays unfinished on purpose. The six rows sit under the four headings from the start of the lesson (schoolwork, relationships, self-management and wellbeing), with speaking up and handling setbacks called out on their own so you can rate them clearly.

Think of Orla at seventeen, strong on school deadlines but quiet in group work, then at twenty-five leading a team rota at work. An audit is a snapshot of now, not a label for life.

If a wellbeing, setback or self-management row feels too heavy to evidence in class, rate only what you are comfortable sharing and skip private detail.

When the interactive is done, write into Self-audit using this layout:

Strengths (3)

• [area] | rating | occasion (when, where, what happened)

Development areas (3)

• [area] | rating | occasion (when, where, what happened)

Six short evidenced lines in total. Use the interactive rows as raw material. Choose the three development areas carefully: next lesson you will pick a longer-horizon goal from this menu, so a vague list costs you later. If you cannot find an occasion for a claim, leave that claim out. That gap is useful information.

Before you finish, spend five minutes with the person beside you. Choose which rows you are willing to show — you never have to hand over a row you marked private, and you may read a line aloud instead of passing the document. On the rows you do share, check every line has a real occasion (a time, place or task), not only a personality adjective. Fix any thin lines now.

Talk these through with the person beside you, or sit with them quietly.

• Pick one claim you almost wrote but could not evidence. What does the missing occasion tell you about that claim?
• Of your three development areas, which one would still matter if nobody ever read your portfolio? Why that one?

If you want a portfolio note later, add two lines under your Self-audit entries on the claim you set aside and why.

In this lesson you:

• Learned what a self-audit, a strength and a development area are
• Rated yourself across six rows under schoolwork, relationships, self-management and wellbeing
• Attached one specific occasion to every claim so ratings mean something
• Wrote three evidenced strengths and three development areas into your Self-audit document in the Strand 1.1 folder
• Used reflection to notice what a missing occasion reveals about a claim

Next lesson you will choose a longer-horizon goal from today's development areas, so keep this Digital Portfolio entry honest and findable.