BENEFITS TO PUPILS

Through inclusive and accessible activities pupils develop:

• Confidence for lifelong learning
• Presentation skills
• Improved oral literacy
• Speaking and listening skills
• Writing and storytelling abilities
• Interpersonal skills
• Appreciation for positive discipline

In addition pupils:

• Become confident and competent - tap into their natural talent
• Understand how to positively influence others with enthusiasm
• Learn to value their significance as a person
• Gain practical skills, e.g., use of humour, body language and more
• Engage in positive reflection, self-assessment, and goal-setting

All participants are given a certificate of success and may choose to enter the optional Competition.

Benefits to Teachers

• Provides enjoyable and affirming professional development
• Helps set ground rules for communication using the Talking Triangle™
• Easy to integrate into the curriculum without adding to teachers' workloads
• All required materials downloadable through Confident Communicators website
• Access to online teaching videos and Teachers Forum
• Interpersonal skills
• Material updated each year
• Telephone and technical support provided by Confident Communicators
• Additional resource manual, games kit and worksheets available online
• Opportunity to enter class in optional Competition

Visits from business mentors who give support by:

• Listening to pupils giving their presentations
• Sharing advice and tips on subjects helpful to pupils, e.g., preparation
• Contributing in other ways that teachers and pupils feel would be beneficial