The program was integrated into the curriculum for both junior and senior secondary students. The junior classes focused on foundational skills through collaborative group activities and problem-solving games. As students progressed to the senior level, the skills were applied to more complex, real-world projects and academic subjects, ensuring a continuous and progressive development from one grade to the next.

We assessed essential skills through a combination of observations and project-based assignments. Teachers used a simple rubric to track student progress in areas like teamwork and problem-solving during classroom activities. This data helped us identify which students needed more support in specific skills and allowed us to tailor our lesson plans to provide targeted practice and feedback.

Linked skills into lessons such as teamwork, problem solving and creativity into maths lessons.

Essential skills are highlighted in mathematics lessons, mention the skills during the starters and link this to real life scenarios. We do this by asking the students questions about real life scenarios what would they do and link this to essential skills that are needed in these scenarios or they may even work in groups as students to collaborate on problems together. We highlight this in our scheme of work and lesson plans.

STEM projects linked to essential skills, students learning through project based learning. Such as recycling and repairing project to address electricity failure in local community, so students work on a project to generate clean energy, by using waste in the local community in the tech hub to create solar power torches and fans. They have learnt faster and better through this method and link these skills to real world problems and community challenges such as… Not just seeing education as only useful in the classroom, they understand they require these skills to solve real world problems, preparing them to become a global citizen.