All classes within the school from Reception to Year 6 had Skills Builder sessions every week. For Reception children, this might have looked like sharing one of the Skills stories as a class and then discussing it. For Year 6, this would have been a more structured lesson using the plans, resources and activities on the Hub. Where appropriate, teachers would make reference to the skills in other areas of the curriculum so children could see the transferable quality of the skills. Parents were directed towards the Homezone so that the language the children hear at school could be echoed at home.

All teachers completed a baseline assessment of their class and were asked to update the Hub with assessments when they felt their classes had made progress. Where possible, directed time was given. It was certainly useful to see the baseline assessments and to see where the gaps in skills were for individual classes but also for us as a school.

Skills Builder was timetabled in for every class every week so we knew that all children were getting direct teaching of these skills at least once a week every week. The Skills Builder Hub was used regularly to resource the lessons either using the Short Lessons and interactive resources for KS2 or the Skills Stories for KS1.

The language of Skills Builder is present in classrooms every day and teachers are adept at referencing the skills in all areas of the curriculum so the children can see how often these skills feed in to their day to day interactions.

Several classes in KS2 have been given the chance to undertake projects (DT projects and school productions) where they were required to use multiple skills in order to be successful. Each opportunity to work on these projects was accompanied by discussions about why these skills are important and the relevance of them to these projects.