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Skills Builder was recommended by a colleague, and after initial conversations with our Skills Associate, we joined Skill Builder. We had spent a few years building up our Careers programme, and Skills Builder seemed a natural step forward to help prepare our students for life beyond school.
Overall impact
Skills Builder made it easier to distill through the school by using a shared language, and tangible steps. Has made us more aware of the skills as we teach.
Keep it simple
We used the skills logos in several places as an easy reminder for staff and students to use the language of the essential skills.
Start early, keep going
We use the skills in displays, which are visible to all students, and we focussed on teaching and highlighting the skills in extracurricular and supplementary events for several year groups.
Measure it
As the opportunities happened across a range of groups this year we used a range of methods. this included observation, discussion between staff and students, and post project teacher evaluation and student feedback.
Focus tightly
Building into the curriculum and into supporting materials for lessons and extra-curricular events. The enterprise project was designed to provide clear opportunities for teachers to teach the skill steps as well as simply highlight them to pupils, steps were carefully chosen based on the groups taking part and the activities they would be undertaking in the challenge.
Keep practising
The pupils practiced skills in the enterprise Challenge and cross-curricular days.
Bring it to life
A range of projects were designed with careers in mind and so were project based and facilitators involved linked the skills to jobs. This included nterprise Challenge, cross-curricular days, Work Experience
