Harnessing former student support and expertise can help you meet objectives in your school improvement plan (SIPs). What's more, our alumni networks and programme interventions are proven to increase students' confidence, motivation and desire to work hard at school.
Download this template to engage your alumni in a motivational talk for your students on their experiences and overcoming barriers.
Engage your students and with an assembly or workshop on International Women's Day, featuring your alumni.
This virtual work experience pack is aimed at supporting students who aspire towards a career in the Health and Social Care sector.
Download this workshop pack for Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, with a specific focus on the theme of 'nature'. For either in person or virtual delivery.
Everything you need to get your alumni community up and running.
Engage your students and with an assembly or workshop on LGBT+ History month featuring your alumni.
What is appropriate behaviour in the workplace? This one hour workshop, complete with an at-home delivery guide for adults, features interactive role play scenarios and videos to help students identify professional and positive workplace behaviour. Also included are two short worksheets designed to help students think about what skills they can bring to the world of work.
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We'll create inspirational alumni posters to showcase success and inspire students as they walk through your school corridors.
Why is creativity important in the world of work? Features tips of how students can be creative in different ways at home, and also includes examples from alumni of what creativity can look like in different jobs.
Shows the importance of communication skills across a wide variety of jobs, and gives students the opportunity to develop their skills by writing a blog, amongst other activities.
Helps students develop analytical skills through hearing how these skills have helped alumni in the workplace, and has activities to allow students to strengthen their own ability to analyse effectively.
Explains how entrepreneurial skills aren’t just for Dragon’s Den contestants, but important for anyone in the world of work, and gives students the opportunity to build these skills by designing and pitching their own eco-friendly household product.
Let us train your school staff and governors on alumni engagement and get the whole school engaged with your community.
Get your alumni strategy off to a flying start by meeting with one of our expert Alumni Programme Officers in your school.
We have collaborated with alumni across our network to gather advice and guidance on how students can gain some crucial work experience whilst staying at home. This template can also be utilised for requesting similar assistance from your own networks.
A virtual work experience week to give an insight into working at a charity like Future First. On each day, students ‘meet’ a team member and complete a task. Activities will help students build on the skills and experience they’d need for many careers, not just the charity sector.
Helps students to learn about the importance of empathy, who is in their support network, and how to ensure they are listening ‘actively’ when supporting others.
Helps students understand how supporting their wellbeing can enable them to cope with their school work and other pressures more effectively.
Students design a weekly framework for activities, using their time at home to develop skills and find hobbies that they excel at and enjoy.
Students learn about skills that are key to being resilient, and how to use them.
Skills and strengths activity which enables young people to identify the skills shown by alumni in their working life and encourages them to reflect on their own skills and strengths. This includes an alumni case study but can be personalised to feature alumni from your school or college.
Pathways activity to encourage young people to reflect on the different pathways alumni take after leaving schools. This includes an alumni case study but can be personalised to feature alumni from your school or college.
What is motivation? Help pupils learn about motivation and how to use goals to help them achieve the things they want.
A series of videos and follow up tasks to help primary pupils learn about the skills needed to work in a charity like Future First.
Encourage your pupils to learn more about the world of work through interviewing an adult at home about their pathway, skills and experiences.
What is resilience? - Help primary pupils learn about resilience and the different ways for improving it.
Help primary pupils explore the transitions happening in their life and strategies to manage these.
Download this workshop pack for Mental Health Awareness Week, with a specific focus on stress. For either in person or virtual delivery
Engage your students and with an assembly or workshop on British Science week featuring your alumni.
Engage your students and with an assembly or workshop on Volunteers' Week featuring your alumni.
Engage your students and with an assembly or workshop on National Apprenticeships Week featuring your alumni.
Use our activity pack to engage your students with an assembly or workshop about engineering featuring your alumni.
Looking to invite your former students back into school? Use this template to email and ask for support with your careers activities.
Notes on how to brief your alumni volunteers so they're ready and prepared for your event.
Involve your pupils in encouraging former pupils to sign up to your alumni network with this letter writing campaign.
Inspire your pupils with an assembly all about the choices available to them in the future.
Become a Future First member primary or secondary school or college to start developing your alumni community.
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Sign UpBecome a Future First member primary or secondary school or college to start developing your alumni community.
Sign UpSupport your old primary school, secondary school or college, or assist other schools across the UK. We will keep you up to date with volunteering opportunities and ideas for what you can do to help children and young people who need you.
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