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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Uplifting Futures: Tackling Gender Stereotypes
This 35 min interactive video from Primary Futures follows a job guessing game format featuring a panel of inspiring career volunteers: a female arborist (tree surgeon), female subsea engineer, male mental health nurse and male outdoor nursery worker. Packaged with optional cross-curricular extension learning activities to make the most of the volunteer talks. See what the resource contains and how to gain instant, free access.
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Let’s Talk Rubbish!
This teacher led classroom resource focuses on ‘waste’ and includes teacher’s lesson plan, PowerPoint presentation and printable activity resources. The lesson plan has been designed to allow children to follow a learning journey with a character named Ella, who is exploring waste with her Grandmother. Through fun activities, learners can really get to grips with understanding waste and rethinking our actions whilst also investigating future career possibilities.