This document provides guidance on justifying the need for a school project or unit of work. It instructs the reader to consider who will benefit from the project, how they will benefit, and why the described benefits are important. The reader is told to explain how the skills and knowledge gained will be useful in the future. The document emphasizes that the introduction should show an understanding of why the unit of work is necessary and needed, and justify all the reasons the final products are needed and will provide benefits.

1. Why is your product needed?

2. Will you learn something?
Consider Key and
Related Concepts,
and Global Context
What could you
discover about the
school?

3. Will you achieve something?

4. Will you help someone?

5. Who are the different people
that are going to benefit from
this Unit of work?
Is it just you or could others
benefit in some way?

6. How will they benefit?

7. Why are the things you
describe benefits?

8. Will your work be useful in
the future? How?

9. Will the skills and knowledge you
gain be useful in the future?
How?

10. Give the reasons why your products are NEEDED
• Your introduction is about showing you understand why this Unit of work is
necessary and needed.
• Why your final products will be needed.
• If there is no need to make them, no benefit to anyone, then why do it?
• You need to justify in your own words all the reasons why you feel it is
worth doing.
• You could use the bullet points to help you think of ideas, but always be
sure that whatever you write, you clearly link it back to explaining and
justifying why this task and your products will be needed.