And it’s not just about our young people. In our coach development programme we use these five skills to develop our own team, teaching their importance and how they can be incorporated into rowing sessions, helping to build a generation of skilled rowing coaches focused on making the sport,  and sport in general, more inclusive. .  

LYR uses the Skills Builder framework to structure, track and reflect development, with students focused on developing a key life skill each school half term.  Pupils also take part in termly skills development and employability workshops run with LYR's corporate partners to demonstrate how essential these skills are in the working world. We aim to link our students with companies who can inspire them to seek successful careers and reach their potential.   The videos below, produced with our partners, are shown to our students to demonstrate how each skill is transferrable into different workplaces.