Aim A Little Higher
Programmes
Our programmes are an opportunity for long-term impact and change amongst students. We cover fundamental areas of personal development such as financial literacy, communication skills, resilience, studying as well as business and Entrepreneurship. Our programmes will raise student aspirations and help prepare them for the real world.
Main Aims
Our programmes are built to help students realise their aspirations and improve their attainment. We aim to stimulate thinking and discussion through our work to help students understand what is possible for them, how to achieve success, and to understand the importance of where they are right now in school and the impact it will have on their future.
Students’ aspirations start with how they see themselves now and creating their vision for the future. We help students to identify their positive traits & ability to communicate these. We then help them to create an exciting vision of the future to give them a reason to work hard now.
Our programmes are there to upskill students across a range of different topics that help fill some of the gaps in the curriculum. Helping to re-engage and motivate coasting students, and truly preparing students for the real world.
Our Flagship Programmes
For Primary Schools
How To Be A Superhero
'How To Be A Superhero' is a 6 Week Character Development programme which delivers key messages to Primary School students through assemblies, daily videos and daily missions which can be played in the classroom and completed in a variety of ways.
Year 10-12
My Student Brand
My Student Brand is a 6 week intensive programme which takes students through a 4 stage process to explore their talents & skills, gain clarity on their vision both within and beyond Education, raise their work ethic and learn key lessons about how the world works including finances and tax.
Our Programmes
We have created a safe space for students to explore their wants and expectations out of life without fear of judgement or ridicule.
Effective and calculated communication is a highly sought-after transferable skill and we believe you deserve a head start.
We have developed a work experience model that’s inclusive, effective and offers students the ability to develop skills, solve real business problems and learn in an alternative professional environment.
This is a fantastic revision-based programme to help you learn and practice efficient and effective revision techniques.
Programme Deep Dive
Raising Aspirations
This programme is for anyone who truly wants to better themselves, understand what success will look like to them, and explore how you can achieve your goals.In our raising aspirations workshop we have created a safe space for students to explore their wants and expectations out of life without fear of judgement or ridicule. In fact, we encourage students to set high goals for themselves and guide them in developing the discipline, personal responsibility and skills they will need to take this potential and make it a reality.
We believe that student‘s aspirations should be raised regardless of circumstance and we have made it our responsibility to assist in making this a reality.
Self-Analysis
Here we will reflect on you and your academic successes so far
Average v Amazing
Here we will explore what an average future looks like compared to an amazing future
Think 25
Here we will look at your expectations of your future self and the reasons behind your predictions
Snakes and Ladders
Here we will investigate your bad habits and how we can combat those
Communication
In this programme we will guide and provide you with a range of skills and techniques that you will be able to use throughout their academic and professional lives.
Effective and calculated communication is a highly sought-after transferable skill and we believe your students deserve a head start. This is why our team have handpicked and created a range of activities and discussions for students to engage in to best assist them in the development of their communication and networking strategies.
- Specially designed communication activities
- Networking strategies
- Training from professional communicators
Money
Money Management and Finance is one of our most sought-after programmes. We have created a thorough workshop where we guide students through the world of money, from understanding taxes and how they affect them to budgeting using real world finance examples and much more.
- Clear and thorough advice on financial responsibility
- Exposure to a range of financial and budgeting techniques
- An understanding of money and taxes
- Financing and borrowing money
- THE COST OF INDEPENDENCE
The Pitch
This programme was developed to help overcome the work experience issue within the academic curriculum.
Careers Leaders reported that the process of organising placements was time consuming, as well as the issues surrounding post COVID procedures in and outside of schools. Due to this, we decided to launch a programme to overcome these challenges and developed a work experience model that’s inclusive, effective and offers students the ability to develop skills, solve real business problems and learn in an alternative professional environment.
- Businesses will have the time to introduce themselves and the task they would like fulfilled and conversate with students
- Students will research their chosen business and develop their ideas to fulfil the task given. They will also create their presentations during this time. Career leaders can collect feedback for their use
- Students will work with AALH staff to learn presentation and communication skills including, presentation training, confidence building and non-verbal communication
- Students will pitch their presentations in a professional environment for the business representatives involved and receive feedback
Revision Skills
This is a fantastic revision-based programme, disguised as a competitive quiz amongst students. It will help students to to help you learn and practice efficient and effective revision techniques.
Students will be faced with a series of sources of information; they must workout the challenge and use a specific method (a revision technique) in order to remember as much information as possible in order to answer the questions in the big quiz., students will explore a variety of revision methods and techniques and discover what works best for them whilst competing to win against their peers explore revision methods and techniques to find what works best for you.
- A range of activities to help you understand your style of learning
- A number of different revision techniques
- Understanding your personal responsibility when it comes to your revision
- A competitive focus to encourage interaction
- THE BIG QUIZ
Social Media
Our social media programme is built to assess, understand, and evaluate the impact that social media has on today’s society; particularly on young people today.
We appreciate social media being the largest online tool and although it can be great, it comes with its dangers for those who are unequipped with the knowledge and techniques necessary to keep safe. The main goal of our workshop is to help prevent this happening to you.
- Understanding of the risks, dangers and real impacts that negligence online can create and how to overcome, avoid and protect themselves from this
- Understanding online personalities such as people they know personally, public figures, celebrities and influencers, and how that can influence their message and who to trust
- Exploring how you would like to be perceived through their social media accounts
- Understanding the ‘online vs reality’ argument
- Creating your own online plan/guide to ensure they’re using the internet appropriately and safely
Why Programmes Are Great!
For students it will help them improve their attainment, their well-being, and it will also help them develop a vision beyond education and build habits that can set them up for both academic and personal success.
Through the bespoke training they will explore and develop vital skills and knowledge that will benefit them for the rest of their life. Everything from maximising their revision and managing their habits, to helping them to focus on what success looks like to them, mapping out how to get to their goals, and motivating them to achieve what they desire.
Our goal is to share lifelong lessons students can always reflect on, and we are able to deliver these programmes face to face, fully digital, or hybrid should you require.
How Programmes Work
Help us understand how we can help you, your teachers, your students, and develop a partnership to help them succeed.