24th March
Blog Stories
It’s that time of year again, spring has sprung and as the temperature rises (slowly…) so does our excitement for summer! “Will it be a scorcher? Can I get tickets to V Festival? Have I sent back my application to become an NCS Team Leader?” Well, we can’t predict the summer, we’re pretty sure
14th March
Blog Stories
“What’s the biggest mistake you have ever made in your career?” A big question at any point in life and one that I found myself having to tackle on the hoof just a couple of weeks ago, as part of a café conversation with a group of Birmingham City University students. It was great to
8th March
Blog Stories
Win a UFA Peer Tutor Training programme for your school! We have been training Peer Tutors for 19 years and see its impact in school and community settings up and down the UK week in week out. We are keen to spread the word further and as part of our charitable work are offering one
29th February
Blog Stories
I have been a teacher for over a decade and one thing I have realised is that ‘being brave’ is one of the most important characteristics to have. If we are not brave and don’t take risks then we don’t push boundaries and we definitely ‘always do what we’ve always done’! Anyone who has worked in
23rd February
Blog Stories
Early on in my career at UFA (and that’s a while back now!) I remember our Founder, Sir Tim Brighouse, reminding us of an African proverb ‘It takes a whole village to educate a child’. This week with the latest Social Mobility Index (31/1/16) now available I have reflected back on that proverb when looking
17th February
Blog Stories
I’ve been privileged to work with two similarly vulnerable cohorts of young people over the last 3 months – one group through the Virtual School in Derbyshire and another at the CE Academy in Wellingborough who serve young people permanently excluded from mainstream schooling. Both groups have trained to become Peer Tutors for their
11th February
Events
We’re really excited to be working with the Peterborough Learning Partnership as part of our ‘Seeing is Believing’ project – where we’ll be promoting our Peer Tutor programme. On February 24th and 25th we’ll be working with Woodston Primary School and Nene Valley Primary School to train 20 Year 4 and 5 students as Peer
10th February
Articles
We have been thinking quite a lot about “reciprocity” recently here at UFA. We measure the impact of our work with young people based on Guy Claxton’s 4 R’s model of Resilience, Resourcefulness, Reflection and Reciprocity and this has got me thinking this month about how we help young people to value reciprocity – how
14th January
Articles
‘Peers’ a film showcasing UFA Peer Tutoring in action at St Philip Howard School, Glossop from UFA National on Vimeo. We aren’t ones to blow our own trumpet at UFA, but we are incredible proud of this film. We are proud of ‘Peers’ because it captures the massive impact of our Peer Tutoring programme on
7th January
Blog Stories
Firstly, a very Happy New Year from everyone at UFA. The working week is well underway for most of us, holidays may seem a distant memory and despite the best intentions some New Year Resolutions will already have gone by the wayside. After two wet weeks at home with a menagerie of animals, children and family
