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Empower every student in your Trust to succeed with essential skills
Is your Trust equipped to ensure every student leaves with the essential skills they need for life?
At Skills Builder Partnership, we have used our proven approach to build essential skills in more than 900 schools over 15 years. We work with Multi-Academy Trusts to implement cohesive, Trust-wide strategies that seamlessly integrate essential skills development.
From high-quality staff CPD, to tailored curriculum mapping, our expert team can empower you to build essential skills at scale. With our support, your Trust can make these skills a core part of every student’s journey, preparing them for lifelong success.
By embedding essential skills in your provision, you can help to improve your academies and excel in the following areas of the Ofsted Inspection Framework:
Quality of education: develop a curriculum which is coherently planned and sequenced towards cumulatively sufficient skills for future learning and employment.
Behaviours and attitudes: promote positive attitudes to learning, high expectations and resilience by building skills such as Staying Positive, Aiming High, Teamwork and Listening.
Personal development: Support students to develop resilience, confidence and independence by building essential skills such as Staying Positive, Aiming High and Problem Solving.
of parents say they would consider essential skills provision when choosing a school for their children. As a result, over 900 schools across the UK are partnering with us to integrate essential skills into their curriculum.
Attract prospective academies by accrediting your Trust’s provision with a prestigious Skills Builder Award.
Research shows that students often experience a decline in essential skills as they move from primary to secondary education. Help to close this gap and ensure a smooth transition process by providing a consistent essential skills provision throughout students’ academic journey.
Enrich your careers provision by embedding essential skills into mock interviews, work experience and careers fair. Connect with employers through our online employer encounters and support your Careers Leads with high-quality CPD.
Every learner in every classroom has felt the impact of the Skills Builder programme.
Priory Primary, part of Hales Valley Trust
We have made Skills Builder an essential part of school life at Horizon, integrating it into our organisational Career Education policy and quality assurance processes to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to develop their essential skills.
Chloe O’Malley, Careers Leader at Horizon
Pupil voice activities have shown that pupils enjoy celebrating the skills and see the value in learning about the skills alongside subject content.
Thomas Walling Primary Academy, part of The Laidlaw Schools Trust
We have inspired new schools to our Trust to become Skills Builder schools. and mentored and coached leaders and teachers…so that they can focus on the essential skills.
