“We focus on building essential skills to enable lifelong success so that one day, all students are equipped with the skills, experiences and aspirations to succeed.” Skills Builder.

The Skills Builder Partnership is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation whose programme we follow as part of our whole school curriculum.

We are proud to be an accredited Skills Builder GOLD school as well as Skills Builer’s longest standing Primary School partner.

Our goal for Skills Builder is that children develop, apply and transfer the essential skills, in any given context, by:

  • practising and building the skills so that they have a high level of competency
  • valuing the essential skills across the school's curriculum; and
  • having opportunities to make links with further education and the world of work

Our aim is to prepare our pupils beyond the realm of primary school, opening up opportunities beyond their current life experiences. We do this through our SkillsBuilder Curriculum which brings the world of work into the classroom and provides opportunities to visit an array of employers and have insight to a range of careers.

Children apply their essential skills throughout the curriculum, including through enterprise projects, such as creating and inaugurating an art gallery in Year 1 and designing a new confectionery product in Year 4.

William Tyndale Skill of the Month

Each month we have a focus on one of the eight essential skills. We also incorporate the Global Goals into our curriculum, linked to our Rights Respecting and Geography curriculum.

 

Skill of the Month
September Listening
October Speaking
November Teamwork
December Global Goal
January Problem Solving
February Staying Positive
March Creativity
April Global Goal
May Aiming High
June Leadership
July Global Goal

We know both from research and our own experience how beneficial visits and hands-on experience is in terms of introducing the idea of work and differing vocations to children.

We are a partner school with the Little Angel Theatre and have developed local business links as part of our enterprise projects. These include, UDDERLICIOUS ICE CREAM, MALIN+GOETZ and Climate Change All Change (cc-ac.org).

Our newest business links are with Transport for London, Lloyds Banking Group and The Estorick Collection. We are also working with other schools nationally and internationally to develop their Skills Builder curriculum.

If you would like to support the school's Skills Builder curriculum, please do get in touch by emailing admin@williamtyndale.islington.sch.uk or calling the school on 0207 226 6803.