Skills Builder Benchmark
This online assessment tool can help the student identify skills they have already achieved and those they would like to work on.
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Harrogate Grammar School is delighted to have been awarded a place on the Skills Builder Accelerator Programme this year. The Skills Builder Framework is now being used in more than 700 organisations who are part of the Skills Builder Partnership. It has been adopted by leading national programmes including the government-backed Careers & Enterprise Company, the National Citizen Service and is endorsed by the CBI.
Students in Years 7, 8 and 9 will be working with the Skills Builder Partnership to ensure every learner has opportunities to build essential skills to support them now and, in the future, using the Universal Framework which breaks each of these essential skills down into steps. Research has shown that building these essential skills can support the emotional wellbeing and academic success of young people, as well as preparing them for life beyond school.
Students and parents can use this link to see the Skills Builder Universal Framework and the individual steps for each essential skill: https://www.skillsbuilder.org/
The Framework is split into 8 essential skills. Over the course of this academic year, 2022-2023, students will focus on Listening, Speaking, Teamwork and Aiming High.
As a parent or carer, you might be thinking about how best to support your children to build their essential skills. The good news is that there is lots that you can do that will have a big impact, including:
As an individual, you might be thinking about how best to support your own essential skills. The good news is that there is lots that you can also do that will have a big impact, including:
This online assessment tool can help the student identify skills they have already achieved and those they would like to work on.
Students and parent/carers can use this tool to complete activities at a time and pace to suit you. Easy access to free resources to support building essential skills. Complete the skills challenges together at home. There are also suggested activities to enjoy together to help develop the eight essential skills.