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We'd like to thank our customers, our schools, our supporters, our team and our incredible role models for all the work they've done over the last 10 years. We end this journey thankful for the time spent helping thousands children build their confidence, develop meaningful friendships and try new things.
Explore the importance of effective communication skills. Learn how to listen effectively, negotiate, work collaboratively and develop confidence in presenting.
The Collaboration Course is designed to help your child:
work effectively as part of a team
build strong communication skills
develop confidence in presenting
assert themselves
The course includes interview preparation & public speaking, focusing on confidence and both verbal and non-verbal communication. This is very useful for those approaching and preparing for 11+ or other types of interviews. These interviews increasingly now focus on group work and how your child interacts with others, so developing collaboration skills can be a helpful form of preparation.
The course includes fun activities which encourage the children to explore ways of working together to solve team challenges and timed exercises. They will learn about compromise, flexibility and the importance of listening. Specific activities include working as a team to herd ‘blind sheep’ into a pen using only noises under timed conditions, as well as making a team tower as tall as possible..
Our pedagogy is under pinned by academic research and inspired by thought leaders in the space. Read more about our inspiration here.
Join Louise, our Director of Character Education, as she takes you through the Collaboration Course.
This video takes a deep dive describing what the course is all about and what your child will learn, together with ideas and strategies for supporting their learning at home.
Time | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 |
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Registration, welcome and today's format | warm up games | |||||
Ice breaker activities, 'Team building' focus | 'Listening' focus | Presenting yourself (public speaking and interviews) | Teamwork and communication | Challenge day teamwork | |
Healthy living & wellbeing (thought per day) and lunch | |||||
Play outside / games | |||||
Assembly: Resilience in teamwork | Assembly: Communication and listening | Assembly: Public speaking presentation | Assembly: Effective teamwork | Assembly: Challenge day | |
Challenge task | Challenge task | Presenting yourself (public speaking and interviews) | Challenge task: Debating | Challenge day | |
Pupil reflection, feedback and target setting | |||||
Reflection and recognition | |||||
Home time |
Address: KAUST Saudi Arabia Thuwal 23955 KAUST
Our team is delighted to offer this course to the children in the community of The KAUST School. KAUST is an international graduate research university on the shores of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia.
More than 120 different nationalities live, work and study on campus, and an International Baccalaureate school provides education for more than 1800 K-12 students. The school provides the Role Models with excellent facilities to deliver our workshops – to support children to develop life skills
All our courses are run in small groups. This ensures our Role Model can get to know each child individually.
To help with this, before the course begins, we ask you to answer a few questions about your child and any specific needs they might have. We will also ask about food allergies, medical conditions and any additional needs that our Role Model needs to know about.
It will only take a minute or two, and it ensures our Role Model has all the information they need to ensure your child has the best experience possible.
from parents & children that attended this course
- Firas
Parent
- Erin
Parent
- Rachel
Parent
- Francesca
Parent
Fun and fast paced learning! There will be a mixture of games, challenges, stories and activities all delivered by our Role Models who are experienced with working with this age range of children. There will be breaks built into the structure of the day including time for outside play (weather permitting!) during the lunch break.
Our courses are built on three elements:
Active learning
Ambitious content
Serious fun!
Our courses are 3, 4 or 5 days, lasting 5 hours each
You will be with a group of children which will be led by an inspirational Role Model
You can wear comfortable clothes
It will be a fun mixture of games, talking, watching some videos and thinking together with the group
We would love you tell us your ideas and feelings during the activities, being reflective and open to discussions means you'll get so much more from the course or club
We get great feedback from other children who have really enjoyed the experience
We can’t wait to meet you and learn some awesome new skills together!
Our courses follow an education framework developed by teachers, education experts and business leaders. This framework, based on the work of the Partnership for 21st century learning', defines the skills and knowledge that children need to thrive at school, at home and beyond.
Our courses have been written by our Character Education team who are highly qualified educators with over 24 years of teaching experience. Our content emphasises the importance of developing essential key life skills alongside academic attainment, in order to thrive in life.
Our highly experienced team of Role Models are passionate about both education and social & emotional wellbeing. They’re energetic, engaging and curious. They’re adept at combining educational rigour with fun, to create active learning environments that children love. All have been interviewed by our Recruitment Team and are reference and DBS checked.
Yes of course! Contact us for information about multi-buy and referral discounts.
Our courses are not designed only for those who may be struggling with specific life skills. We believe all children can build on these essential skills in order to reach their full potential. Your child may need a boost in confidence, to strengthen their resilience or they may just need an opportunity to go outside of their comfort zone and challenge themselves by working with new people.