Work Experience and Employability Skills Does work experience get you employability skills? What are employability skills anyway? If you do a Google search for them you’ll probably come up with similar lists from several countries. So what are they? The Read more…
How’s Your Revision Going? SQA exams will be starting soon, so revision is a major feature in schools at the moment. But what’s the best way to revise? Many parents will expect their children to study for several hours a Read more…
Budgeting Workshop at Aberdeen Grammar School In November last year Preparing4Life ran a Budgeting Workshop at Aberdeen Grammar School for S6 pupils. The Budgeting Workshop is just one of a range of workshops we provide to teach life skills to Read more…
8 Things I Learned In 2018 Sometimes one year is difficult to distinguish from another, they just merge into one another. 2018, however, has not been like that. This has been a big year for me, one I won’t forget. Read more…
Dos and Don’ts of Living In Halls Moving away from home can be exciting and a bit scary. Not just for the young people, but for their parents, too! This Fresher’s guide to surviving in Halls is based on years Read more…
Why Should Children Worry About A Work-Life Balance? As this is Work-Life Balance Week, I was wondering if such a thing really exists for most people, and when I say people I don’t just mean adults. Young people are reported Read more…
Do Your Students Have A Skills Gap? Schools care about the welfare of their students. Above all, schools want them to thrive in the real world. To do this, they have to be prepared. If there’s a gap in the Read more…
Solo Dining The other day, with some time to kill, I decided to have coffee in a local café. Finally sitting down after too much dithering, I wondered what made me choose that particular seat. Was I avoiding busy tables, Read more…
How To Cope With Feeling Down Everyone gets fed up at times – we wouldn’t be human if we didn’t. Learning how to cope with these feelings is important, especially if they happen when we don’t have our usual support Read more…
Mental Resilience When do we learn how to cope with things not going our way? The importance of mental resilience cannot be understated. It helps us get through life with all its ups and downs and still manage to get Read more…