Planning

Setting goals and designing routes to achieve them

This skill is about how individuals develop clear, tangible goals and robust routes to achieving them – whether in education, the workplace or their wider lives.

Initially, this is about considering the difficulty of tasks, knowing what doing well looks like for them, working with care, and recognising their strengths.

The focus then shifts to taking a positive approach to new challenges, setting achievable goals, developing simple plans, and prioritising tasks.

Suggested activities to try at home to build the skill:

• Start a skill exchange with a friend or member of your family. Choose something you can teach and learn. For example, you might teach a parent or carer to play a video game, and they might teach you to cook a meal.
• Set yourself a challenge to get more active. For example, you might aim to complete 20 star jumps in a row or to run a certain number of laps around an outdoor space.