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Welcome to the Skills for Life programmes

Partnership for Children produces programmes for schools that teach children skills for life: how to cope with everyday difficulties, how to communicate with and get on with other people, and build self-awareness and emotional resilience. Our programmes are suitable for all children, and are evidence-based. They are widely used both in the UK and over 30 countries around the world.

Zippy's Friends

Zippy's Friends

Zippy’s Friends is story based and has 24 sessions of 45 minutes. The programme is suitable for children of all abilities. Children develop their own positive strategies to deal with problems through engaging activities: listening to stories, discussion, games, role-play and drawing.


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Apple's Friends

Apple's Friends

Apple’s Friends is based around a series of stories and the programme has 24 sessions of 45 minutes. The programme is suitable for children of all abilities. Children develop their own positive strategies to deal with problems through engaging activities: listening to stories, discussion, games, role-play and drawing.


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Passport

Passport

Passport is based on the same theory as Zippy’s Friends and Apple’s Friends but looks quite different. Engaging comic strip stories follow the adventures of Olya and Milo as they discover a secret world of fantastical creatures in the company of their friend, Elly the dragon.


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SPARK Resilience

SPARK Resilience

SPARK Resilience draws on mindfulness, positive psychology and cognitive behavioural therapy to give children skills to boost their strengths, control strong emotions and reframe habitual ways of thinking. Evaluation of the programme found it boosted resilience and helped prevent depression.


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Zippy's Friends for SEND

Zippy's Friends for SEND

Zippy’s Friends for Pupils with SEND was developed in collaboration with special schools with support from the National Association of Independent Schools and Non-Maintained Special Schools. The adapted activities help pupils with SEND to increase their coping and social skills.


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    • The Skills for Life programmes have already helped over
      2,600,000 children
      across the UK and abroad

    • Our programmes are based on scientific evidence which show that they work. Zippy’s Friends has been evaluated through a number of randomised control trials (RCTs) – the ‘gold standard’ of research – in a variety of cultures


      Our Programmes:

       Meet all of the mental wellbeing requirements of the statutory guidance for RSE

        Support the mental health and wellbeing of pupils in Years 1 – 6

        Include ready to teach resources

        Work for the whole class or targeted intervention for vulnerable children




    • quote


      Most programmes give 

      children life jackets.

      Zippy’s Friends teaches

      them how to swim.

      -Teacher


      I felt better when I found

      out that other children

      feel the way I do too.

      - Apple’s Friends pupil


      Passport makes it

      safer and easier to
      talk about our
      feelings in class.
      - Teacher


      quote


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Partnership for Children, 1 Park Road, Hampton Wick,
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT1 4AS, England
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