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.
HEE
Being A GP - Primary School Activity Resource
Produced by Health Education England (HEE), the Royal College of General Practicioners (RCGP) and the University of Leeds, this resource has been designed to introduce Primary aged pupils to the work of General Practitioners, commonly known as GPs.
Our Primary Activity Book contains 20 activities, which will help pupils learn about the work of GPs, as well as develop their Science, English and Maths skills. You could work through these as part of a lesson, or set them for homework.
The workbook can be download and completed online, or printed as a booklet and completed in person.
Step Into the NHS
360+ Careers in Healthcare
This is an exciting resource and competition for KS2, designed to help raise career aspirations, challenge stereotyping and put learning into context for the future.
Our ready-made KS2 lesson plans and resources are made up of three parts, with the finale being an exciting competition to showcase pupil learning and celebrate the NHS. Your pupils will explore a wide range of careers and better understand that all NHS careers are open to them, whatever their gender or background.