Life Skills

Across Holte School, we ensure our curriculum and pastoral support encourages life skills amongst all of our pupils. Below are some examples of how we encourage pupils to develop their life skills:

• Communication techniques – approaching teaching staff for guidance, conversing with drivers of home-school transport, responding to questions, expressing own feelings
• Inclusion activities
• Finding strategies to break barriers of anxiet
• Develop organisation with homework, classwork, revision
• Team building exercise
• Positive role models, in and out of school
• Behaviour management
• Time management
• Empathy with students’ emotional and social difficulties, encouraging discussion
• Parental Communication  
• Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 Transition 
• Open and honest discussions 
• Health and Hygiene – helping students to develop an understanding