Extraordinary
Inspire - Resources
These ready-to-use lesson resources use examples from Team GB athletes, Team GB support staff and University of Hull student ambassadors.
Each resource can either be used as an hour-long lesson or in bite-sized chunks perfect for form time activities.
Inspire: Ages 11-14
This lesson introduces students to the concepts of resilience, perseverance and developing a growth mindset. The lesson inspires students to write a plan for their future.
Inspire: Ages 14-16
Inspire students to develop their own plan to find their extraordinary. This lesson helps students develop resilience and a growth mindset.
Inspire: Ages 16-18
At a time where older students are thinking a lot about their future, this lesson provides the guidance and structure needed to plan for what comes next, and help find their own extraordinary.
Inspire - Films
Check out our films featuring Team GB athletes and University of Hull student ambassadors.
Find your extraordinary
Students explore how being extraordinary means doing something that’s more than what you – or perhaps the people around you – first thought you could achieve.
Inspiring stories
We hear from Team GB athletes Luke, Bianca and Amelie as they tell us how they turned their dreams into reality.
Three amazing qualities
What do ‘growth mindset’, ‘perseverance’ and ‘resilience’ mean?
Luke's story
Extraordinary is in all of us. Team GB athlete Luke Greenbank tells us how he reached his goal.
Explore - Resources
These ready-to-use lesson resources use examples from Team GB athletes, Team GB support staff and University of Hull graduates.
Each resource can either be used as an hour-long lesson or in bite-sized chunks perfect for form time activities
Explore: Ages 11-14
This lesson helps young people explore future pathways and key employability skills, encouraging students to explore the range of options and pathways available to them.
Explore: Ages 14-16
Helping students to build on their careers knowledge, this lesson aids students’ development of creativity and life skills.
Explore: Ages 16-18
At this key stage in their path, this lesson encourages students to consider their own future goals, helping them identify employability skills, evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses, and build knowledge of different careers and pathways.
Explore - Films
Check out our films featuring Team GB athletes, Team GB support staff and University of Hull student graduates.
Skills 101
A look at the variety of job roles within the sports sector and the employability skills required for each role.
Extraordinary pathways
What are the different pathways into a career in sport? This film covers how interests, skills and values all play a part in shaping a career pathway.
Extraordinary futures
Advice on setting goals and considering your future.
Discover - Resources
Explore how continual, rapid changes in technology mean that jobs will always evolve. Students ‘future gaze’ each stage of their career journey to help them identify and develop the soft skills that will help them to thrive today, adapt to change and ‘find their extraordinary’, preparing them for their future.
These ready-to-use lesson resources use examples from Team GB athletes and University of Hull students.
Each resource can either be used as an hour-long lesson or in bite-sized chunks perfect for form time activities.
Discover: Ages 11-14
This lesson helps young people understand that in a rapidly changing technological landscape, people will always matter. Students develop a simple action plan to develop soft skills.
Discover: Ages 14-16
Helping students understand that developing their soft skills will help them to make the most of what they do best and ‘find their extraordinary’.
Discover: Ages 16-18
Students learn how soft skills help people to stand out to employers in a technology-driven world and make the most of new technologies to improve peoples’ lives.
Discover - Films
Check out our films featuring Team GB athletes and University of Hull student ambassadors.
Jobs and technology
A look at how technology shapes how we work today and how it may influence the future of work.
Soft skills 101
What are our ‘soft skills’? This film covers how soft skills make people unique or irreplaceable.
Making lives better
Considering how soft skills will be important in the future and what kind of mindset helps us to develop our soft skills.
Work with us
The University of Hull is committed to supporting schools and colleges and widening participation. Find out how your school or college can get involved.
Work with us
The University of Hull is committed to supporting schools and colleges and widening participation. Find out how your school or college can get involved.