Loading
Click if page fails to load

  • Our Skills for Life programmes

    An infographic showing all the Skills for Life programmes

    We produce 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 in over 30 countries around the world. Get in touch with us for more information about the Skills for Life programmes and how to run them in your setting.

    Our programmes meet all elements of the Mental Wellbeing requirements of the statutory guidance for Relationships and Health Education for primary schools in England and support many other key requirements.

    To deliver the Skills for Life programmes, you need to complete live online training and purchase an annual subscription to our Skills for Life Online Teaching Platform which gives you access to all the digital teaching and learning materials for the programmes. Staff can also buy printed resources and pupil workbooks to enhance learning.

       

    Early Years PSED

    Children aged 3-5 develop their own positive strategies to deal with problems through engaging activities: listening to stories, discussion, games, role-play and drawing changed to Children aged 3-5 are supported to develop their self regulation and social development skills through stories and play based activities. Find out more.

    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. Find out more.

    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. Find out more.

    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. Find out more.

    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. Find out more.

    Zippy's Friends for Pupils with 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. Find out more.

    Please note: The Skills for Life Online Teaching Platform Subscription is currently only suitable for UK schools and English speaking international schools.