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#ffffff; color: #000000;" class="paragraph paragraph--type--text-panel paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="paragraph-inner"> <div class="field field--name-field-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Skills Booster: free personal development for your students</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Skills Booster helps teachers provide high-quality personal development opportunities to young people in schools and colleges. Get involved.</p> <p>“Skills Booster has definitely been a success. It can only help our students go on and be good as well as successful citizens in society when they leave our school.” - Careers Leader, Suffolk</p> <p>Our Skills Booster teaching packs can be adapted for use in your PSHE lessons, form-time activities, or after school enrichment time. The packs include fully editable PowerPoint presentations and teaching guides with advice, links and extension activities. Each pack contains material for approximately one hour, which can be completed in one go, or split into four 15-minute activities.</p> <p>Our Skills Booster resources are arranged into three modules, each containing five or more lessons:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Life Skills and Independent Living:</strong> including Mindfulness and Wellbeing, Looking After Your Finances, and Staying Safe from Frauds and Scams. NB: new for 2024 this module has been produced in partnership with Skills Builder. </li> <li><strong>Citizenship and Social Action:</strong> including British Values and LGBT+ Rights, Democratic Engagement, Volunteering and your Community and Understanding Identity, Beliefs and Values ** NB new for 2025, this module has been produced in partnership with Faith Belief Forum.</li> <li><strong>Employability and Next Steps:</strong> including Thinking About a Career, CV Workshop, and Reflecting on Your Skills ** NB new for 2025, this module has been produced in partnership with Youth Employment UK</li> </ul> <p>”The flexibility to tailor activities to the needs of our students is excellent. Employability, careers, and progression sessions are vital to support students to become work ready. 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