Girls in Green Futures (GIGF)

Eight-module green-economy work-experience programme — General Work Experience Programme, branded Girls in Green Futures. Built for Gleeds Energy & Defence as the industry partner.

The programme teaches project controls by doing project controls: scope, schedule, estimating, risk, reporting, KPIs, governance, presentation. The “live project” each cohort works on is their school’s Climate Action Plan — so the project-controls skills are applied to a real-world piece of work the school can carry forward after the programme ends.

Cornerstones: Connection (●●●), Reflection (●●●), Creativity (●●)

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Source materials: /Users/kirstinstevens/Desktop/Nudge Curriculum/GIGF Modules/ — eight .docx modules (Mar–Apr 2026).

The architectural conceit

Module 1 introduces ten system functions that every system needs to survive — Sensing, Boundary, Coordinating, Resourcing, Communicating, Deciding, Adapting, and three others. These functions are universal: they describe a family, a school, a government, and a project. The rest of the programme then teaches a project-controls discipline against each function:

• Boundary → Scope (Module 2)
• Coordinating → Schedule (Module 2)
• Resourcing → Cost (Module 3)
• Adapting → Risk (Module 4)
• Sensing → KPIs (Module 5)
• Communicating → Stakeholder communication (Module 5)
• Deciding → Governance (Module 7)

Module 6 (Green Skills and Future Jobs) connects all the above to the global Net Zero transition. Module 8 is delivery day — the cohort presents their Climate Action Plan review to school leadership.

The eight modules

• Module 1 — Every System Runs on the Same Architecture — the ten system functions; spotting them in family / school / government / project
• Module 2 — Scope and Schedule — defining the boundary, planning the journey
• Module 3 — Estimating and Cost — how many people, how much resource, what will it cost
• Module 4 — Risk — what could go wrong, what to do about it
• Module 5 — Reporting and KPIs — how do you know it is working, how do you tell everyone
• Module 6 — Green Skills and Future Jobs — where is the world of work heading
• Module 7 — Project Governance — who does what, who decides, how it continues
• Module 8 — Presentation, Delivery, and Close — the final day; presenting their work to the school

Tested by

No overlay — this is canonical NEO-original content; not awarding-body-specifiable. GIGF evidence may, however, contribute to portfolio submissions for ASDAN Workright, ASDAN Lifeskills Challenge (Employability module), and Functional English / Maths Level 2 — see cross-overlay notes on individual modules.

PfA alignment

The single densest set of Preparing for Adulthood outcomes in the vault. Every module touches:

• pfa/employment — the entire programme is work experience
• pfa/independent-living — project-controls skills are also adult-life self-organisation skills
• pfa/community — Module 7 (governance) and Module 8 (presentation) explicitly civic
• pfa/good-health — Module 3 covers compound measures and budgets, Module 4 covers risk literacy

For commissioners placing learners with EHCP pathways into NEO, GIGF is one of the strongest curriculum-level demonstrations of PfA progress NEO can offer.

Cross-curriculum links

• KS4 Maths (Modules 3 and 5 are mathematics-rich — cost estimation, KPIs, dashboards)
• KS4 Science — Ecology (Module 6 explicitly maps to Net Zero / climate science)
• Life and Work — Employability (the entire programme; particularly Modules 6 and 8)
• Life and Work — Citizenship (Modules 7 and 8 — civic governance)
• Functional English — Speaking, listening, and communicating (Modules 5, 7, 8)
• Relating Intelligently (sibling NEO-original; the systems-thinking architecture in Module 1 echoes the relational-architecture framing in Relating Intelligently Module 1)

Status

Course pack already authored across eight modules. Module-level outcome pages populated 5 May 2026.