Lanarkshire school hold Skills Day to teach pupils employability skills

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Trinity High School held an Employability Skills Day to teach pupils new life skills.The Rutherglen-based secondary saw the whole school community come together to highlight the employability skills that are most relevant to pupils and the environment in which they live.All S1 pupils undertook various challenges designed to have them consider, and focus on, the skills they have learned in the classrooms of all their subjects.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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This can be used to inform their subject choices as they move forward in their school career.Technical teacher Mark Fleming said: “These skills were then used to produce a poster, which is displayed in every classroom."The poster is used as a reference to pinpoint the skills that the pupils are using in the various tasks and activities they are involved in across the curriculum.“The pupils soon start to learn that these