We founded the 360 Skills For Life social enterprise to ensure every young person is prepared for life, not just exams. We will build on our collective experience of skills for life education, and the the support of our partners, with ambitious plans to expand our provision for young people.
In addition to new topics and age groups, our ambition is to scale up in the following ways:
360 gives children the tools and confidence they will need to make positive decisions in everyday life.
I like the 360 commitment to anytime, anywhere access, which is particularly relevant now.
The online approach, coupled with strong partnerships for face to face delivery as well, makes this concept invaluable.
A user-friendly resource that offers scope to move away from didactic teaching and to explore ‘real life’ challenges and potential consequences.
I like the way you can walk around the whole city and it’s not limited to one thing and after you finish the missions you can walk around and do what you like.
360 will allow individual agencies to combine their good work and raise the bar in delivery of safety and wellbeing interventions.
It’s very fun because there are multiple choices and based on your options it can go a different way.
360 gives access to a whole learning environment in a cost effective way which Local Government should support.
I like it because it teaches you lessons with having fun doing it.
Situations and scenarios are up to date. The product really does appeal to young people and is very user friendly.
It’s like a game and you have pick the right decisions in real life situations but it’s fun at the same time.
The 360 platform enables teachers and leaders to engage young people and to highlight scenarios in a safe environment.
The missions were so useful because they helped us make good decisions.
Given the pandemic, equipping young people to be independent critical thinkers with the confidence to respond to situations in everyday life is even more vital.
360 is really cool. It is super realistic and helps me to understand what to do when something like happens in real life.
The platform provides teaching staff with an opportunity to address challenging safeguarding issues with pupils in a safe environment and to open up discussions on difficult topics that equip learners with critical information on how to keep safe.
We didn't have a clue how to play at first, but then we showed our teacher what to do! It was lots of fun!
By young people working through scenarios that could be affecting their lives, it helps to improve their understanding of potential risks, consequences and ...decision making to enable them to make choices to keep safe and well.
A child asked if we could do 360 again as soon as he came in the next morning, highlighting just how much the programme motivates [pupils].
Even if the scenario had been something the learner had experienced before, it is still a useful tool as allows them to revisit the experience and discuss, and think about advice they might give to others about that scenario.
Learners are excited by it and students are quick to pick it up.
The interactivity of 360 alongside pupil-led learning [means that] learners can make choices in a safe environment.
[360] provides an opportunity to ask PSHE-related questions without asking the pupil directly. [This] means [you] can see a more accurate picture of how a pupil may respond in real life – as it mimics a video game, it gives an insight to a more natural response.
We've really benefitted from the whole class discussions. For example, this morning [we talked] about what risk and risk assessment is... what could go wrong and understanding how to stay safe. We've... linked [this to] school trips, walking home or going to the park... and in terms of... friendship groups too.
We talk to each other and decide which option we think is best. If we disagree on what happens we try one and see what happens. [Because you have to cross roads in Skill City] this is helping me to be ready for secondary school when I have to walk a long way past cars parked on the path.
I've learnt to make safer choices, to do what is best and what I think, not just what others think. [It has helped] me to have a clearer mind... sometimes [friends] make you do stuff you maybe don't want to do. But now I feel I might change my point of view and be more confident.
I've learnt that you don't always have to choose the decisions that your friends want you to make. You could [make] your own decisions.
Access to this virtual reality world will provide an important platform to ensure our young people are educated across a wide range of key areas, with the ultimate aim of keeping them safe.
