FREE – motivational talk template
Download this template to engage your alumni in a motivational talk for your students on their experiences and overcoming barriers.
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ConnectEd Programme – Secondary & Colleges
Everything you need to get your alumni community up and running.
FREE LGBT+ History Month – Assembly and Workshop Activity Pack
Engage your students and with an assembly or workshop on LGBT+ History month featuring your alumni.
FREE – SEND: Ready for Work Pack
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.
DIY+ Membership – Secondary & Colleges
For schools that have made great gains in establishing a thriving alumni community with Future First’s Membership
Membership – Multi Academy Trusts
Everything you need to get alumni communities up and running across schools in your MAT.
Alumni Posters
We'll create inspirational alumni posters to showcase success and inspire students as they walk through your school corridors.
FREE – Employability Skills: Creativity
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.
FREE – Employability Skills: Communication
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.
FREE – Employability Skills: Analytical
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.
FREE – Employability Skills: Entrepreneurial
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.
Staff / Governor Training
Let us train your school staff and governors on alumni engagement and get the whole school engaged with your community.
Alumni strategy meeting
Get your alumni strategy off to a flying start by meeting with one of our expert Alumni Programme Officers in your school.
FREE – Work experience profiles
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.
FREE – Work experience in the third sector
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.
FREE – Remote Learning: Support networks and empathy
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.
FREE – Remote Learning: Balancing your pressures with happy spaces
Helps students understand how supporting their wellbeing can enable them to cope with their school work and other pressures more effectively.
FREE – Remote Learning: Hobbies and interests – finding your fit
Students design a weekly framework for activities, using their time at home to develop skills and find hobbies that they excel at and enjoy.
FREE – Remote Learning: Applying flexibility, perseverance and problem solving
Students learn about skills that are key to being resilient, and how to use them.
FREE – Remote Learning: Skills & Strengths
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.
FREE – Remote Learning: Pathways
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.
FREE – Primary Remote Learning: What is motivation?
What is motivation? Help pupils learn about motivation and how to use goals to help them achieve the things they want.
FREE – Primary Remote Learning: Skills for my job at Future First
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.
FREE – Primary Remote Learning: World of work
Encourage your pupils to learn more about the world of work through interviewing an adult at home about their pathway, skills and experiences.
FREE – Primary Remote Learning: What is resilience?
What is resilience? - Help primary pupils learn about resilience and the different ways for improving it.
FREE – Primary Remote Learning: Making a transition
Help primary pupils explore the transitions happening in their life and strategies to manage these.
FREE Mental Health Awareness Week activity pack
Download this workshop pack for Mental Health Awareness Week, with a specific focus on stress. For either in person or virtual delivery
FREE British Science Week Assembly and Workshop Activity Pack
Engage your students and with an assembly or workshop on British Science week featuring your alumni.
FREE Volunteers’ Week Activity Pack
Engage your students and with an assembly or workshop on Volunteers' Week featuring your alumni.
FREE National Apprenticeships Week Activity Pack
Engage your students and with an assembly or workshop on National Apprenticeships Week featuring your alumni.
FREE Careers in Engineering – Assembly and Workshop Activity Pack
Use our activity pack to engage your students with an assembly or workshop about engineering featuring your alumni.
FREE Template email for alumni support
Looking to invite your former students back into school? Use this template to email and ask for support with your careers activities.
FREE Adaptable briefing notes for volunteers
Notes on how to brief your alumni volunteers so they're ready and prepared for your event.
FREE letter writing resource – Primary
Involve your pupils in encouraging former pupils to sign up to your alumni network with this letter writing campaign.
FREE ‘My Journey’ assembly pack – Primary
Inspire your pupils with an assembly all about the choices available to them in the future.
