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LIFT OFF Learning Skills 22

Another year and another round of our SCQF accredited LIFT OFF Learning Skills course done and dusted! LOLS is our short learning skills course that aims to make moving from school to Higher Education easier for senior phase pupils. It looks at some of the key areas where learning is

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S5 Individual Action Plans

Here we are in April and Spring is definitely in the air. I’m enjoying the brighter days and seem to need to fewer cups of tea to wake me up in the morning! April sees us wrapping up our support for S5 pupils in the form of ‘Individual Action Plan

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S6 Transitions Programme

How is it already March 2022?!? This month marks 2 YEARS since LIFT OFF transitioned to working from home. Speaking of transitions, we have continued to deliver our S6 Transitions Programme for S6 pupils in secondary schools across Tayside & Fife, with it all wrapping up at our final S6

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New Website Launch and Competition

Our brand new LIFT OFF website is now live! We are excited to now have a new online home to keep you up to date with LIFT OFF information, resources and news. On the website you will be able to meet and find out more about the LIFT OFF team

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LOLS Online

After a delivery year like no other, LIFT OFF Learning Skills (LOLS) 2021 is complete! LOLS is the credit-rated element of the LIFT OFF Programme. S5 pupils have the chance to gain some critical skills needed to succeed in HE, including academic writing, referencing and group work. Pupils from 15

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S4 Steps to Success

The LIFT OFF team reveal their top tips in our latest online Blog series ‘S4 Steps to Success’.  From goal setting, well-being, and time management, to organisation and note taking, our very own Development Workers share their pearls of wisdom on hot topics requested by our very own Core Pupils. 

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Annual Event Reporting

As we come towards the end of another academic year, the LIFT OFF team have been hard at work reviewing and evaluating each of the events we have carried out with our core pupils. Writing our event reports is an important part of identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the

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LIFT OFF Covid-19 Response

The LIFT OFF team are now working remotely due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. We hope to be back in schools as soon as it is safe to do so. Until then, LIFT OFF have moved our delivery to the MS Teams platform. LIFT OFF have created MS Teams Classrooms for