It’s never too early to nurture children’s aspirations or to help them develop valuable skills for the classroom and beyond. From free lesson plans and slides to films and interactive tools, the Barclays LifeSkills resources cover a variety of topics including developing core transferable skills, building aspirations and personal development for primary ages all the way through to adulthood.


Barclays LifeSkills
Schemes of Learning
Looking for somewhere to start as you support your pupils in building their aspirations? The new Barclays LifeSkills schemes of learning offer sequenced resources across employability (from age 7) and financial education (from age 5). Designed to support educators in helping pupils build core skills like communication and career awareness, the 7–11 employability scheme helps pupils develop year-on-year through structured, flexible lessons that revisit and build upon important topics to support with year on year progression. These flexible resources can slot into existing delivery to further embed core learning in a simple and achievable way and reduce planning time.
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Engineering Fairy Tales
Engineering Fairy Tales include a range of STEM stories and challenges to help primary aged children understand about the world of engineering and develop their teamwork and creative problem-solving skills. These stories were developed by the education experts at STEMFirst, and are read by STEM Ambassadors from BAE Systems, the Royal Navy, British Army and RAF.
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Electricity
This bundle of electricity activities provides an introduction to the subject of electricity, covering a range of exciting activities for students to test their knowledge; from conductor detectors through to finding out what are the dangers of static electricity and why do we need to be able to detect it?! These resources are for ages 8-14 (aligned to the National Curriculum and The Curriculum for Excellence.)
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Space
This bundle of space activities provides an introduction to the subject of space, covering a range of exciting activities for students to test their knowledge; from rocket launch through to finding out how astronauts get oxygen! These resources are for ages 8-14 (aligned to the National Curriculum and The Curriculum for Excellence.)
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Magnetism
This bundle of magnetism activities provides an introduction to the subject of magnetism, covering a range of exciting activities for students to test their knowledge; from levitating coins through to a magnetic treasure hunt! These resources are for ages 8-14 (aligned to the National Curriculum and The Curriculum for Excellence.)