Teachers deliver essential skills lessons from year 7 where they look at the first four steps in each skills. Additionally drop down days are run across the school. The involvement of parents stems from the parent governor being the member of the governing body to support careers. He has overseen the strategy, which has been shared with parents, and supports it.

Assessment takes place via Pupil Voice and student self-assessment. Students have fed back to teachers and form tutors who have fed back to members of the senior leadership team. Next year, there will be 2 review cycles where all students will be able to feedback. Students log their development in their careers journals. We will continue to develop ways to measure progress made by exploring the Skills Builder Hub and internal assessment documents.

All students are given timetabled sessions to look at skills and are encouraged to write down ways in which they can develop their skills. The following sessions also give students a chance to feedback on what they have done. Students also meet careers skills within their wider curriculum lessons, which provides addditional opportunities to focus tightly on the eight essential skills.

Each essential skill is looked at on a fortnightly basis, and this happens all the way through the school. This approach provides opportunities for the skills to be practiced across the curriculum. Additionally as part of our rewards system , students need to explain how they have developed and use the skills they have learned.

We work closely with employers and many of our students will complete some form of work experience. That said, breaking the essential skills down in to meaningful actions has been the most effective way of bring the skills to life, providing engagements and development for our students.