Neon by Engineering UK

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. 

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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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Green engineering careers poster

A new inspiring poster for upper primary school students showing how engineers transform the way we design buildings.

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Meet real engineers presentation

Introduce primary students to real engineers! Find out what they do, how they make a difference and what they love about their jobs.

Discover 5 engineers and find out more about a career in engineering with this fun, engaging presentation.

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100 jobs in STEM poster

A popular poster highlighting 100 exciting job roles that link to STEM.

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Find your route into engineering

A series of 8 themed postcards showing exciting areas where engineers are making a difference: electronics, medicine, power, products, space, sport, transport, and water.

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Enspire City

Enspire City will give 8 to 11 year-old students information about inspirational careers, education pathways and work sectors that may help them to choose a career in STEM.

It features a futuristic city where engineers work to solve green problems and develop future facing designs and manufacturing activities. It includes zones for the vertical farming, automotive, aerospace and space sectors.

With job descriptions, case studies, fun activities and games there’s plenty for your students to explore and the City comes with free facilitator materials for you to download and use.

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I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here

The I’m a Scientist activity shows students real-life applications of their classroom studies. Suitable for students aged 8 to 11. Your students take part in a themed activity of your choosing. These are matched closely to your curriculum, more general or to celebrate a special event (e.g. British Science Week). During the online activity, students: Learn about up to 30 relevant scientists through their profiles, including their CVs Connect with a diverse range of scientists in 30-minute, text-based, online Chats Deepen their understanding and continue engaging with the scientists by sending follow-up questions Decide which scientist deserves the £500 winner’s prize Review their learning through a facilitated discussion I'm a Scientist supports students science capital. The activity introduces students to science professionals with whom they share personal interests and opinions. Students make connections between science and their own lives, helping them see that science, and by extension, a science-related career, could be for ‘someone like me’.
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Amazon Robotics Fulfilment Centre Tour

On this virtual school trip, students will explore an Amazon package's path, from the online store to their doorstep. The experience focuses on how computer science and engineering contribute to a package's journey, on the different technologies used, and on the career roles involved. With the engaging, interactive Kahoot, and downloadable teacher resources, the Amazon Fulfilment Centre Tour is easy to use for teachers and brings technology to life for students.
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The Mission to Mars Experience

Turn your classroom into 'mission control', and gain access to the cameras and controls of a real robotic rover to complete tasks on a realistic model Martian landscape - all while learning about the incredible engineering that makes these missions possible! Your students will need to use their team-working and problem solving skills to complete the mission, and will get the chance to ask questions about Mars exploration along with the various types of STEM roles that are required to make it possible. The session is straight-forward to run with either Zoom or Microsoft Teams.
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Further resources

There are further resources available via Neon, however, costs may apply.
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