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We support schools to build the essential skills of every learner through the training of staff, a comprehensive curriculum, and links to employers.
We provide a suite of tools for teachers to build essential skills in the classroom, including learning activities, classroom resources and assessment tools.
We partner with employers across all industries and sectors to engage effectively with children and young people through trips and workshops.
We collaborate with youth organisations to drive collective impact through the Skills Builder Framework, supporting assessment and impact.
These are the skills that underpin success at every stage of life: they unlock learning while at school, ensure young people are fully prepared for the independence of university and college, and empower people to land their dream job.
We work to ensure that one day, everyone will build the essential skills, experiences and aspirations to succeed. So we created the Skills Builder Framework, which underpins our programmes. It takes each of the eight skills and breaks them down into teachable and learnable nuggets - from the age of three through to adulthood.
We’ve developed and refined our approach to make it easy for teachers, youth workers and students to build essential skills. We have six simple principles - our approach in a nutshell.
We have built a partnership of schools, employers and other organisations all using the Skills Builder Framework to develop skills with children and young people.
We've created toolkits for schools, teachers, employers and organisations that offer advice for embedding the essential skills, the Framework and the principles into their everyday work with children and young people. You can download it for free.
The Missing Piece: The Essential Skills Education Forgot details the rationale for building essential skills, in the light of a decade of practice with over 150,000 children and young people. It rigorously examines the arguments for and evidence behind the six principles, as well as discussing the thinking behind the development of the Skills Builder Framework. The book also looks to the future, outlining a roadmap for the changes we must make to our education system so that every student can be equipped with the skills, experiences and aspirations that will empower them to succeed in life.
Learn all about essential skills and the how our Partnership is leading a movement to prepare young people for success both in school and beyond.
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