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Skills for Life in 2021 - Resources and Training

Latest news on teacher training and free Covid children's activities
Skills for Life Programmes in Scotland – Coping skills and resilience at forefront of Recovery Curriculum

We are delighted to have successfully launched our Skills for Life programmes in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Zippy, Apple and Passport arrive in Oldham

We are delighted to be working in partnership with Oldham Council and Oldham Opportunity Area to offer our Skills for Life Programmes to primary schools in the region.
Spotlight on Russia - Using the Rules against (state) Bullying

This was not the first time that the Prosecutor’s Office in Petrozavodsk in Karelia (north-west Russia) had tried to stop Zippy’s Friends in schools.
Zippy’s Friends is listed in CASEL Guide to SEL programmes

CASEL has analysed numerous research studies from around the world, producing solid evidence that promoting SEL also improves children’s academic performance.
Mental health in schools in Scotland

We are delighted to be offering our Skills for Life mental health promotion programmes free of charge to primary schools across Dumfries and Galloway.
Compulsory health education in schools

From September 2020 Relationship and Health Education will be compulsory in Primary Schools in England.
Zippy – supporting children with communication and interaction needs

In March 2019, we visited Burpham Primary School CoIN Centre in Guildford to observe a Zippy's Friends for Pupils with Special Needs class.
New NGO Zippy, Slovakia

Zippy’s Friends has been running in Slovakia since 2013, with the programme currently in its sixth school year.
Flash the hamster celebrates Children’s Mental Health Week!

Monday 4th February 2019 was the start of Children’s Mental Health Week and we were delighted to visit an Apple’s Friends class at Merton Park School in south London.
Zippy's Friends for SEN in Kuwait

In November 2018, our Programme Director Caroline and Project Manager Hannah visited Kuwait to deliver training on Zippy’s Friends for Special Needs to our partner, COPING.
The importance of developing children’s thinking skills

The development of thinking skills is an essential life skill for all our children. Consider the journey a child takes as they move from a curious baby to an inquisitive pre-schooler, moving to an experimenting reception child, into a questioning KS1 child, then using their skills as a theorist and researcher in to KS2, ready to move into the next stage of their life. 
University of Surrey Research Project: Transition from Primary to Secondary School

Partnership for Children is supporting an important research project that is looking to recruit girls aged 10 and their parents with a focus on emotional competence during the transition from primary to secondary school.
Congratulations to Tewkesbury Primary School who won a £250 Entertainer voucher!

In our last newsletter in Summer 2017 we asked for your feedback on running Zippy’s Friends and Apple’s Friends. We received feedback from over 70 schools. Such feedback is invaluable and helps us to develop and improve the programme, so many thanks to all those who took the time to complete the survey. All schools were entered into a prize draw.
Your summer holiday project… knit a Zippy!

Here’s something to fill those spare hours(!) over the summer… Download our new Zippy knitting pattern and make your very own Zippy!