There has never been a more important time to be building these skills. Being confident in all eight essential skills can support the development of children’s social skills and wellbeing, their learning outcomes and their future employability. There are so many ways that parents and carers can support children to build these skills at home, simply by talking, playing games and doing activities together.
Skills Builder has developed Skills Builder Homezone (skillsbuilder.org/homezone) to help parents and carers to build their child’s essential skills at home.
Along with posting fun Weekly Skills Challenges to try at home, together families can also browse and choose from many activities that have been designed to enjoy at a time and pace to suit them.
Parents and carers can simply filter by their child’s experience level and pick a skill to begin.
Sir Herbet Leon works with The Skills Builder Partnership to ensure every learner has opportunities to build eight essential skills to support them now and in the future.
Research has shown that building these eight essential skills can support the emotional wellbeing and academic success of children and young people, as well as preparing them for life beyond school.
Skills Builder has developed a Universal Framework that breaks each of these essential skills down into 16 teachable steps. We use this framework to teach and practise each of the eight skills at the appropriate level throughout school life.
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