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Skill

The Skills section is about discovering what you’re really good at. Maybe you want to get better at something you already do, like playing a musical instrument, or learn something for the very first time, like how to design a website?

By developing practical and social skills and nurturing your personal interests and talents, you’ll boost your self-esteem and your CV.

Programme ideas: Skills section

Performance arts

Ballet appreciation

Ceremonial drill

Circus skills

Conjuring & magic

Dance appreciation

Majorettes

Puppetry

Singing

Speech & drama

Theatre appreciation

Ventriliquism

Yoyo extreme

 

Music

Church bell ringing

Composing

DJing

Evaluating music & musical performances

Improvising melodies

Listening to, analysing & describing music

Music appreciation

Playing a musical instrument

Playing in a band

Reading & notating music

Understanding music in relation to history & culture

 

Natural world

Agriculture

Conservation

Forestry

Gardening

Groundsmanship

Growing carniverous plants

Plant growing

Snail farming

Vegetable growing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science & technology

Aerodynamics

Anatomy

Astronomy

Biology

Botany

Chemistry

Ecology

Electronics

Engineering

Entomology

IT

Marine biology

Oceanography

Paleontology

Physics

Rocket making

Taxonomy

Weather/meteorology

Website design

Zoology

Care of animals

Agriculture (keeping livestock)

Aquarium keeping

Beekeeping

Caring for reptiles

Dog training & handling

Horse/donkey/llama/alpaca handling & care

Keeping of pets

Looking after birds (i.e. budgies & canaries)

Pigeon breeding & racing

 

Creative arts

Basket making

Boat work

Brass rubbing

Building catapaults & trebuchets

Cake decoration

Camping gear making

Candle-making

Canoe building

Canvas work

Carnival/festival float construction

Ceramics

Clay modelling

Crocheting

Cross stitch

DIY

Dough craft

Drawing

Dressmaking

Egg decorating

Embroidery

Enamelling

Fabric printing

Feng Shui

Floral decoration

French polishing

Furniture restoration

Glass blowing

Glass painting

Interior design

Jewellery making

Knitting

Lace making

Leatherwork

Lettering & calligraphy

Macramé

Marquetry

Model construction

Mosaic

Painting & design

Patchwork

Photography

Pottery

Quilting

Rope work

Rug making

Snack pimping

Soft toy making

Tatting

Taxidermy

Textiles

Weaving and spinning

Wine/beer making

Woodwork

 

 

Games & sports

Cards (i.e. bridge)

Chess

Clay target shooting

Cycle maintenance

Darts

Dominoes

Fishing/fly fishing

Flying

Gliding

Go-karting

Historical period re-enacting

Kite construction & flying

Mah Jongg

Marksmanship

Model construction & racing

Motor sports

Power boating

Snooker, pool & billiards

Sports appreciation

Sports leadership

Sports officiating

Table games

War games

 

Life skills

Alternative therapies

Cookery

Democracy in action

Digital lifestyle

Driving: car maintenance/car road skills

Driving: motorcycle maintenance/

road skills

Event planning

First Aid – St John/St Andrew/

BRCS

Hair & beauty

Learning about the emergency

services

Learning about the RNLI (Lifeboats)

Library & information skills

Massage

Money management

Navigation

Public speaking and debating

Skills for employment

Young Enterprise

Learning & collecting

Aeronautics

Aircraft recognition

Anthropology

Archaeology

Astronautics

Astronomy

Bird watching

Coastal navigation

Coins

Collections, studies & surveys

Comics

Contemporary legends

Costume study

Criminology

Dowsing & divining

Fashion

Forces insignia

Gemstones

Genealogy

Heraldry

History of art

Language skills

Military history

Movie posters

Postcards

Reading

Religious studies

Ship recognition

Stamp collecting

Media & communication

Amateur radio

Communicating with people who

are visually impaired

Communicating with people who

have a hearing impediment

Film & video making

Journalism

Newsletter & magazine production

Signalling

Writing