About us

Bringing Skills to Life is John Lewis's flagship education programme.

The ambition from the outset has been to equip and inspire children with the mind-sets, skills and practices for creative thought and action, as it is these life skills which fuel our ability to innovate and drive the economy forward.

Our curriculum-linked resources and competitions are designed to help you nurture children aged 3-11 to:

Become creative and innovative thinkers
Develop practical skills
Collaborate on idea-generation and problem solving

The resources link together, supporting cross-curricular learning, so you can delve as deep as you want across our themes.

To get started, explore one, two or all of our five themes:

There’s always more to discover and we’ll send registered users relevant updates, competitions and challenges.

Working in partnership with

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Want to contact us?

We’d love to hear from you. If you have any questions or simply want to find out more about what we do you can email us at skillsforlife@johnlewis.co.uk.

About us

Bringing Skills to Life is John Lewis's flagship education programme.

The ambition from the outset has been to equip and inspire children with the mind-sets, skills and practices for creative thought and action, as it is these life skills which fuel our ability to innovate and drive the economy forward.

Working in partnership with

Want to contact us?

Register now to discover all of our resources and activities