Life skills wellbeing edtech for secondary students

英国儿童的幸福感从12岁开始急剧福尔斯，16岁时比8岁时低21%。英国青少年的代理权丧失正在惊人地上升，缺乏生活技能，英国在所有经合组织国家中的学生生活满意度最低。2019冠状病毒病危机正在加剧我们青少年的这些问题，因为他们的正常日常生活和社交活动已经失去或受到极大的干扰，他们正面临着一个非常不确定的未来。学校需要框架和工具来帮助他们解决这些问题，并实现9月19日引入的新的Ofsted“个人发展”目标。由于Covid-19，这一点现在变得更加紧迫，这些工具将需要在线提供和有效，而不仅仅是在课堂上。Persona Education Ltd将开发并推出一款生活技能健康应用程序，供中学在PSHE环境中使用。我们在2020年12月/1月进行的变革理论研究发现，公立和私立学校的校长和PSHE教师都认为培养生活技能有助于改善学生的幸福感。Persona生活技能应用程序将为青少年提供基于成熟心理学的见解，通过与他们的发展阶段相匹配的生活技能计划来改善幸福感并增强自我成长。这些生活技能将侧重于自我管理和与他人的有效沟通-包括在线和面对面。我们的主要重点是通过提供工具来帮助中学解决因新冠肺炎而加剧的问题，使用适用于在家学习和回到学校学习的教学方法，并以技术为导向的方法帮助尽可能多的青少年。影响力扩展资金将用于扩大和加速我们的客户成功，销售和营销活动，使应用程序可用于更多的学校和大学进行beta测试，在更短的时间内。这将意味着更多的学生将更快地访问该应用程序，使他们能够通过发展生活技能来提高自己的幸福感。更高的幸福感已被证明会导致更好的学术成就和更大的就业能力，使个人和整个社会受益。具体来说，额外的资金将使我们能够创建一个新的客户成功角色，采用更有效的客户入门，并增加广告，直接电子邮件和网站改进的支出，所有这些都将有助于增加客户和用户数量。

Wellbeing among UK children falls sharply from age 12, and is 21% lower at 16 than at age 8\. Loss of agency among UK teenagers is rising alarmingly, life skills are lacking and the UK scores lowest on pupil life satisfaction among all OECD countries. The Covid-19 crisis is exacerbating these problems for our teenagers as their normal routines and social interactions have been lost or greatly disrupted, and they are facing a very uncertain future.Schools need frameworks and tools to help them address these issues, as well as to meet the new Ofsted 'Personal Development' targets introduced in Sep-19\. This has now become much more urgent due to Covid-19, and these tools will need to be available and effective online, not only in the classroom.Persona Education Ltd will develop and roll out a life skills wellbeing app for secondary schools to utilise in a PSHE setting. Our Theory of Change research conducted in Dec/Jan 2020 found that headteachers and PSHE teachers across both state and private sector schools believe developing life skills helps pupils to improve wellbeing.The Persona Life Skills app will provide teenagers with insights strongly grounded in well-established psychology, improving wellbeing and empowering self-growth through a programme of life skills matched to their stage of development. These life skills will be focused on self-management and effective communication with other people - both online and in person.Our main focus is to improve wellbeing for UK teenagers by providing tools to help secondary schools address issues exacerbated by Covid-19, using a pedagogical approach applicable when learning from home and when back in school, and helping as many teenagers as possible with a technology-led approach.Extension for Impact funding will be used to expand and accelerate our customer success, sales and marketing activity, making the app available to more schools and colleges for beta testing, in a shorter timeframe. This will mean more students will have access to the app sooner, enabling them to boost their wellbeing by developing life skills. Higher wellbeing has been shown to result in better academic achievement and greater employability, benefiting both individuals and society as a whole. Specifically the additional funding will allow us to create a new customer success role, adopt more efficient customer onboarding, and increase spend on advertising, direct email and website improvement, all of which will contribute to increased customer and user numbers.