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PSHE KS4 Living in the Wider World
- Raise student aspirations
- All PSHE benchmarks covered
- Suitable for tutor time
National Talent Awards
- Year 12
- Supported by marquee employers
- Certification
PSHE KS4 LIVING IN THE WIDER WORLD
This course offers a positive vision of the future and challenges young people to be ambitious. Created by successful EdTech entrepreneur David Jaffa.

Raise student aspirations

All PSHE benchmarks covered

11 video-based lessons

Suitable for tutor time

Futureproof Careers framework
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First lesson free
Lesson 1 of our PSHE KS4 Living in the Wider World course for schools.
PSHE KS4 Curriculum Guide
Download a PSHE KS4 Living the Wider World Curriculum Guide showing the lessons available and curriculum benchmarks covered.

OUR STUDENTS
Example Work
National Talent students did superb work during lockdown. Take a look...
Student Work
Futureproof Careers framework
Our Futureproof Careers framework helps prepare young people for a changing world.
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NATIONAL TALENT AWARDS
Key features are:
- Year 12
- Supported by marquee employers
- All courseware and materials provided
- Externally moderated and accredited
- Suitable for non-specialist teacher (current staff member)
- Dial-in experts and surprise guests
- Supports the Gatsby Benchmarks
COURSE INCLUDES
39 Lessons (90-120 mins per week)
- Character Strong
- Portable Skills
- Build Assets
- Entrepreneur Boot Camp
Comprehensive Resources
- Lesson Plans
- Video introductions
- Discussion questions
- Worksheets
- Rubrics
Dial-in experts and surprise guests
Celebration Assembly
Certification
Opportunities with marquee employers students wouldn't otherwise get
Gatsby Benchmarks
NTA supports the Gatsby Benchmarks by challenging stereotypical thinking and raising aspirations. It is a selective program that takes ambitious young people, coaches them in workplace skills and opens doors to in internships and other opportunities with marquee companies they would not normally get. We help students identify and evidence their strengths, through a rigorous certification process.
STUDENT WORK
By National Talent students
MARKETING TASK
Sports website created in 40 minutes.
Miaad Gaffer, Year 12, George Green's School, London Docklands

FUTUREPROOF CAREERS
The Futureproof Careers framework is a set of skills and character qualities that will always be needed and valued in the workplace. There are three elements:

Portable Skills
Portable skills have value across industry boundaries and enable young people play to their strengths.

Character
Character means doing the right thing and the thing that’s needed when it’s hard. For example, taking responsibility for results.

Build Assets
Assets are important in all sectors of the economy. Financial knowledge is a key skill for the future.
NATIONAL TALENT ACADEMY
National Talent Academy provides cutting edge qualifications for a changing workplace.
National Talent Academy was founded in 2020 by Cambridge graduate David Jaffa, who previously founded SAM Learning, an online learning tool for GCSE and KS3 used in hundreds of English secondary schools, and Penda Learning, an online Science and Math tool for US schools. David received the 2021 BETT Outstanding Achievement Award for his lifetime achievements in EdTech.

CONTRIBUTORS

Rory Graves
Rory works at Morgan Stanley and brings his skills as a certified Toastmaster to presentation skills teaching at NTA.

Maxine Jaffa
Maxine has a background in teaching and neuropsychology. Her book 'Emotion' is a collaboration with Mark Solms, Antonio Damasio and Oliver Sacks.

Thor Conklin
Thor has founded, bought and sold several multi-million dollar businesses and is a peak performance consultant to several multi-millionaire entrepreneurs.

Emily Cotterill
Emily specialises in developing resources for PSHE, Citizenship and Careers and has ten years of experience teaching in inner city schools.

Dick Tomlinson
Dick is an international educational and business consultant. Developed a school for 350 developmentally disadvantaged students in North Carolina.

David Jaffa
David founded SAM Learning, an online learning tool used in hundreds of schools, and received the BETT Outstanding Achievement Award 2021.
CONTACT
National Talent Academy, c/o Jaffa Foundation, 3rd Floor, 1 Ashley Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 2DT
Registered in England No 09353439 as a company limited by guarantee.
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