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We are a mixed academy in Warwickshire. We were RI at our last inspection and wanted to do some work around both raising the aspirations of our students but also preparing them more fully for life after Stanborough. Skills Builder seemed a good way of us doing this, particularly as we already had experience with Unifrog.
Overall impact
Its been good but has been limited by Covid. The skills summits and challenges have been the highlight. The students have really enjoyed them.
Keep it simple
We have set up a main poster in school which we change every half term. We then focus on one school each half term and have a copy of the poster in each teaching room. We have encouraged staff to refer to it in their lessons. We have also created awards on our awards system for Skills Builder and have been sending home the challenges for students to compete at home. We also had a screen free day during lockdown, where we used the challenges to motivate the students to do something offline. Skills Builder sessions are also being delivered during form time.
Start early, keep going
Parents have been involved through the careers bulletin and skills challenges. We set the challenges across the whole school.
Measure it
Tutors have started using the assessment tool, although this can be improved further. We have also had two skills summits which were great. Students email in examples of them completing the skills challenges.
Focus tightly
We have started to use the hub in form time but this could be developed further.
Keep practising
We usually have lots of extra curricular running, although obviously this has been curtailed this year. We are starting to move towards embedding skills into curriculum delivery.
Bring it to life
The daily challenges and skills summits have been great. We also work with our enterprise advisor to facilitate work with employers (virtually at the moment).
What's next
We will continue to pay for the online resources and look forward to really launching it again in the new academic year.
