TRIP-HOSTING EMPLOYER
Our employer partners periodically host visits to their workplaces by groups of students, who get a chance to meet employees and ask questions. Volunteers and students then get to work on a challenge that gives a flavour of what the organisation does.
Babylon Arts' mission is to develop creativity and connect communities with arts and culture.
Our aims are:
- For Babylon ARTS to be seen as an essential part of the area's cultural, economic and artistic life.
- Cognition and Learning
- Self-Regulation
- Social Interaction and Awareness
Babylon Arts provides a wealth of opportunities for young people in arts in the Cambridgeshire region. They are preparing an online 'Culture Catalogue' for teachers and careers advisors to use when they're seeking opportunities for young people to gain career development experience in the creative industries. This begins with encouraging the creative industry providers to highlight which skills are being highlighted and developed in their activity provision.
How they use the Skills Builder Framework
Explicit and consistent use of language from Framework
Connecting with partners around common skills
Audit of existing programme content
Assessment of programme impact
Reflection with learners on programme experience
Training for delivery team
Additional offer to schools (e.g. Hub resources)
Increase specificity and focus within programme (e.g. refer to specific steps, rather than whole skill)
Measuring learner baseline to differentiate programme/intervention
Sharing best practice with other skills-building organisations
Development or co-creation of new content
