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The latest from the Partnership

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.

Trips to Employers

Research & Publications

What's been going on in September 2019

October 9, 2019

The reimagined Skills Builder Hub

September 17, 2019

What's been going on in August 2019

September 10, 2019

What's been going on in June 2019

The Skills Builder Partnership Day 2019

New partner: EdPlace

How ABQ Sohar International School builds eight essential skills

Latest press releases

Check out the most recent events and updates from schools in the Skills Builder Partnership and see how they're developing essential skills through whole-school Challenge Days and inspiring Trips to Employers.

Trips to Employers

Trips help students make the critical link between the skills built in class and the working world. They meet volunteers from a range of organisations and work together to get a flavour of the industry.

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Harefield Junior and Infants Schools visit University of West London - Brentford Campus

Hatfeild Primary @ Thames Water

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Hatfeild Primary School visit Thames Water Hogsmill

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Wendell Park Primary School visit Eversheds Sutherland London

Children's work

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Montpelier Primary School visit Baker McKenzie

Cranford Primary School at Societe Generale, Richmond

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Cranford Primary School visit Societe Generale Equipment Finance Richmond

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Yorkmead Primary School visit Selfridges Birmingham

Challenge Days

Challenge Days provide an exciting and engaging way for students across a class, a year group or even the whole school to work together and use their essential skills.

Reception use pasta, ribbon and sequins to decorate their cards

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Greetings Cards at Coppermill Primary School

The fruits of top-notch Creativity in Year 4/5

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Operation Moonbase at Somerford Primary School

Solving the crime of the Sugar Snatched using eight essential skills

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Crime Scene Investigation at Holly Park Primary School

Linden Primary Operation Moonbase

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Operation Moonbase at Linden Primary School

EYFS Moonbase

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Operation Moonbase at Osbaldwick Primary School

Working together well at Windy Arbor Primary.

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Greetings Cards at Windy Arbor Primary School

External Press

Profile: Tom Ravenscroft

Tom Ravenscroft is perhaps the most quietly passionate proponent of a “skills” curriculum in education today – and if that rings alarm bells, keep reading.

Education must transform to make people ready for AI

We are doubling down on the idea that if we get children to know things and regurgitate them in a certain way in an exam, then we are setting them up...

Education’s missing piece

Tom Ravenscroft, Founder and CEO of Enabling Enterprise, explains how he is trying to reduce the skills gap. There is something fundamental missing in...

School reports miss the talents that matter - just look at Alan Turing

The education system can sometimes struggle to cope with lateral thinkers. Learning has become formulaic – a case of regurgitating knowledge in...

‘The Missing Piece’ book review - Dr. Mary Bousted

Ravenscroft has not only done his research – the sources in his book are wide and varied – but he also wears his learning lightly. The result is a very...

Start-up success: six lessons for aspiring social entrepreneurs

While it may sound poetic, Enabling Enterprise was not born in a flash of inspiration. Rather it emerged from my desperate attempts as a naïve new business studies teacher to engage...

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The Missing Piece

Impact Report 2018

Toolkit: Primary Schools

Toolkit: Secondary Schools

Toolkit: Colleges

Toolkit: SEN Schools

Toolkit: Teachers

Toolkit: Employers

Toolkit: Organisations

Impact Report 2017

Impact Report 2016

Impact Report 2015

Impact Report 2014