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Atkinson Road Primary Academy – A Skills Builder Flagship School
Atkinson Road Primary Academy is proud to be a Skills Builder Flagship School, recognising our commitment to developing essential life skills in all our pupils. As a Flagship School, we take a leading role in embedding the Skills Builder framework, ensuring that every child builds the eight essential skills—Listening, Speaking, Problem Solving, Creativity, Staying Positive, Aiming High, Leadership, and Teamwork. Through high-quality teaching and real-world experiences, we equip our pupils with the tools they need to succeed in education and beyond.
Atkinson Road Primary Academy 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 children’s motional wellbeing, academic success and prepare them for a life beyond school.
Skills Builder has developed a Universal Framework that breaks each of these essential skills down into small teachable steps. Teachers explicitly teach a new skill every month using high quality resources from the Skills Builder Hub and children have ample opportunities to further practice and master these skills in other subjects, after school clubs, off-timetable days and projects.
Each year, every child completes a Challenge Day. This year, it was a Crime Scene Challenge Day. Pupils from Early Years to Year 6 used the eight essential skills to find out who stole the chocolate. The children were able to visit the crime scene, gather clues and analyse the evidence before making a decision which fairytale character was guilty.
Every month children have an opportunity to master a different skill.
How to support at home
Skills Builder recognises the vital role parents and carers have in helping their children to build their essential skills therefore it has a free resource platform, Homezone.
From Weekly Skill Challenges, to family activities and guidance to share with older children to access independent tools for their own skill development, Skills Builder Homezone can be enjoyed at a time and pace to suit all families. To further support your child building their essential skills please visit:
www.skillsbuilder.org/homezone
