We are a single form entry school in Lancashire. We take from 2 yrs up to 11yrs. We are a church school and we work closely with our church and the wider community. We took part in Skills Builder this year as it was an opportunity to broaden our curriculum offer and we also saw it as a link between other initiatives that we already have running in school.

Through using the Skills Builder Accelerator programme, we have seen an application of all the skills we have explicitly taught so far across the curriculum. The other skills are also identified when staff spot the children using them. EYFS has employed a Skills Builder spotter within their class, which is working extremely well as the children are able to verbalise and recognise the skills within each other. We feel that the rewards of skills stickers and adapting our Class Dojo points to link with skills has worked really well and gives another opportunity for staff to ask the children about how they have used the essential skills.

Amending policy documents to include Skills Builder e.g. our marking and feedback policy Looking at where language of essential skills could be linked to our new class assembly format Sharing essential skills more broadly with the wider community through our website Building specific skill steps into planning for the coming year, beginning with humanities subjects