Horizon is a post 16 provision that has students taking functional skill activities all the way to pre-interns and internship, and it's important to note that skills builder is being used across the whole of the Horizon campus and is a crucial part of our everyday life. We encourage all staff to use it, whether they are teaching staff, whether they are admin staff so that when they are dealing with learners, it means that the dialogue amongst the learners and the staff is always consistent, it has really allowed us to develop the curriculum and develop the way we work as a campus and make sure that everybody works together.

Due to the nature of our curriculum, we are continually assessing the impact of Skills Builder and how are learners are developing. We have also used the Skills Builder framework as part of the Evidence For Learning feedback we give all of our intern learners. Work Experience starts for all learners straight away so it is a great opportunity for us to assess learners from the beginning and continue this all the way to the end of their journey with us at Horizon. Job coaches meet regularly with interns to reflect on their progress, and update Hub assessments accordingly. Staff are given focused CPD time to ensure they are able to moderate the students learning and also to compare data and see where learners are at. Data is collected regularly throughout the academic year. Our celebration assemblies at Christmas, Easter and the end of the academic year are based around the 8 skills and we use the data from our reports to decide who receives these.

As mentioned, students have a focused weekly session on Skills Builder and sometimes use more than one form time to do this if it is needed. We have also included it within our curriculum planning to enable staff and learners to see how they are always focusing on these essential skills across our curriculum and in their everyday practise. Also the activities have been extremely helpful in allowing our learners to really develop those skills.

We also use Skills Builder to develop our enrichment program and what we do out of the classroom and we're talking about teamwork when we are going out for mock interviews when we are going to places like KPMG and Morgan Stanley. It has been a crucial part of what we do and we've also done it by doing different activities when we've done enrichment activities. So for example, students did the London challenge which was that they had to go to specific landmark in London had to leave from a specific station and they had to work as a group and they had to communicate in order to get there, although staff are there to support them. Ultimately, the learners lead the whole expedition and staff did not we're not allowed to intervene at all times. Our enrichment club timetable and Hang out timetables detail where the skills can also be put into practice.

As our ethos is focused on preparing our learners for the world of work and developing their skill setting, Skills Builder has allowed us to do this in a way where we are able to also assess them on these skills. Our form time activities have both a dedicated time to Skills Builder as mentioned above but also all of the activities set during this time also allow our learners to develop their skills. The core curricular around life and work skills and confidence building also does this. Our enrichment activities are lead by both in house staff but also welcomed outside agencies and this time is dedicated to developing these skills as individuals but also within groups settings depending on the activities. Due to the Work Experience programme and the Pre-Internship and Internship the skills are always put into practice via the world of work with the long-term goal of employment for our learners. As part of our Life & Work Curriculum students planned and delivered a school fete for our Hazelbury Campus (KS3). They set up and ran 10 stalls needing a variety of equipment and prizes successfully raising money for charity. We ended this academic year with a challenge day - The Crime Scene Challenge - Which allowed all of our students to engage in all of the 8 skills in a real life scenario.