What is Persona Life Skills?
Boost student wellbeing, academic and employability outcomes, by developing social-emotional skills. Empower non-specialist teachers to deliver a Personal Development programme, and Hit Ofsted, ISI, Cambridge, India NEP or other targets.
Persona Life Skills is a unique, online personality insights approach to personal development for students age 11-19, through social-emotional learning (SEL).
Offering a scaffolded, age appropriate online e-learning curriculum for Year 7-13/Grade 6-12 wellbeing, academic and employability outcomes, the platform is built around our unique personality insights framework for young people, and complements existing school Personal Development, Social-Emotional Learning, Careers, SMSC, PSHE/RSE, Citizenship, Guidance and Life Skills curricula.
Develop 22 social-emotional life skills that map to Ofsted, Independent Schools Inspectorate, IB Learner Profile, CASEL, Cambridge iGCSE, India National Education Policy, GL Assessment, Gatsby, Skills Builder, VIA Character and other benchmarks.
The platform is 100% web-based, designed to work equally well in lessons, tutor groups or after-school sessions, or via blended or remote learning, and for homework assignments. Built-in onboarding, teacher resources and real-time guidance mean any non-specialist teacher can easily get started in less than an hour, and facilitate the learning.
Students receive instant feedback on activities, and their input is saved as they go along. They can sign in anytime to review work or complete tasks.
Recommended Usage
At least six 'Island' teacher-facilitated life challenge modules and 12 'My Guided Tour' self-directed life skills modules per year.
Educational Impact
 Company | Business Name: Persona Education Ltd HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2020 |
| Age Range | 11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19+ |
 Features | DashboardsProgress MonitoringLearning Self-reportingInteractive ActivitiesSocial InvitationsIn Class Or Remote LearningPersonalised LearningAge-appropriate ModulesTeacher OnboardingFree AccountRead Aloud OptionDialogue CaptionsStudent Self-registration |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Robust features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android The platform is hosted in the cloud and accessible by any student or teacher with a browser on Chromebooks, PCs, laptops, tablets or smartphones. |
 Set Up | <1 hour for teachers. 1-2 hours for admin. |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos A teacher/tutor onboarding module, contextual in-module guidance, intro videos and PDF reference guides are included in the platform. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support |
| Home Learning | Parent Access Parents can create the account. Home School package available for up to three students and two parents/tutors. |
 Tags | personal developmentsocial-emotional learningpshersesmsclife skillssoft skillswellbeingemployabilitypastoralonline learningsecondaryks3ks4high school21st century skillscareerteaching & learning |
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Persona Life Skills PricingPricing Plans Free VersionFreemiumFree TrialPaid Subscription Persona Life Skills pricing starts from £119 / year Teacher package for one teacher and up to 30 students: £149 + VAT. Home School package for up to three students and two parents/tutors: £119 (incl. VAT). Minimum school/college subscription 100 students for one year: £1,500. Price per student discounted by up to 67% as number of students increases. Additional discounts up to 17% for a two or three year contract. Subsidised pricing available for India and other Low/Lower Middle income countries (please contact us for details). A Free account includes unlimited students and teachers, 3 x foundational modules, 22 x Life Skills modules, Persona Insights and growth areas, student progress monitoring, play through all Paid Subscription modules, and a Free Trial of selected Paid Subscription modules/features with students. A Paid Subscription for the school/college provides access to all modules and features, including teacher-facilitated modules, self-directed modules, Persona Insights, Invitations, Persona Community and Persona Adaptability. Plus teacher and admin tools: Student progress monitoring in Groups and impact statistics in the Dashboard.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Persona Life Skills Reviews
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Madelaine Sweis
Life Development Department Coordinator and Trainer
Used Persona Life Skills weekly for 4-6 months
May 2024
The content is amazing. But the delivery may not be as exciting as students would expect.
Madelaine Sweis found Persona Life Skills:
- Does not significantly increase student collaboration“No”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Understanding their own personalities”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Also their personalities and how to understand others”
Brian Reeve-Hayes
PSHE & Mental Health Lead
Used Persona Life Skills weekly for 4-6 months
Jan 2024
Persona is a fantastic tool for the right environment. We tried it at out Behaviour unit and found students did not have the ability to focus and lacked the ability to sit on a computer with other students around. In other groups we use it with, it is much more attainable. It requires staff who know exactly how to use it so they can explain to students. We currently only have 1 staff member (me) who can confidently explain to student, but I am limited on time with students.
Brian Reeve-Hayes found Persona Life Skills:
- Slightly increases student collaboration“I don't believe it has had an impact on this at this time”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing“It is still early to see any significant results. Once students complete their Persona Profile, they seem to enjoy hearing about their personality styles.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“They are learning more about themself, but the language used in Persona is not accessible to them; supportive, animated decisive etc. Many of our students have low literacy levels, so they don't always understand what they are doing. Unless we can take them for 1:1 time to explain everything, the impact right now is minimal.”
Shruti Garg
Academic Head
Used Persona Life Skills daily for 0–3 months
Dec 2023
The platform enables an individual to learn and diagnose his personality style and insights. It definitely contributes to positive and inclusive school culture. It has nurtured their emotional intelligence, promoting positive behaviour and contributing to their overall well-being. I would like to commend the team for inter such a valuable and interactive platform.
Shruti Garg found Persona Life Skills:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students have started understanding group needs and now they mingle more with each other, have shown an improved collaboration during classroom projects.”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Students have shown instances wherein when faced any academic difficulty or hardship, ones with strong SEL skills have increased resilience and they are likely to bounce back and persevere.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Positive decision making and empathetical approach is being observed which shows students knowledge has substantially grown.”
Deepti Shukla
Teacher
Used Persona Life Skills daily for 7–12 months
Jun 2023
It was an awesome experience learning with persona and that is why I have given this score
Deepti Shukla found Persona Life Skills:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“They were able to understand others also in a better way and thus collaborated better.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“They were able to manage their anger and mood swings.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“To get knowledge it is very important to be in happy and relaxed mind, which persona made possible”
Kirti Shaah
Lecturer of English ( PGT )
Used Persona Life Skills weekly for 4-6 months
Jun 2023
During this online program the only problem student faced was related to technical part
Kirti Shaah found Persona Life Skills:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students get acquainted with each other more”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Students showed excellent teamwork”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students learnt to manage stress”
Jun 2023
Yes it helps me to understand people better
Hina Sajid found Persona Life Skills:
- Slightly increases student collaboration“Could see the changes in them when it comes to understand their empathy”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“More understanding increaed”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Nothing”
Hala Nawaf
teacher
Used Persona Life Skills weekly for 7–12 months
Oct 2022
I wont to deal with this program aftee approval of ministry of education then the program score deserves 10
Hala Nawaf found Persona Life Skills:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“relationship between students become good”
- Slightly provides school data
- Significantly increases student collaboration“the group work has become more effective”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“more quite and respect others”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“they become more interested in dealing with educational programs”
Cory Davis
Teacher
Used Persona Life Skills occasionally for 4-6 months
Jul 2022
Social-emotional learning is such vital need in today's world. Persona is user-friendly and covers a breadth of topics, allowing students to reflect on themselves in directed and important ways.
Cory Davis found Persona Life Skills:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Once students have the routine of the website down they can run themselves, allowing teachers to focus on the results of student work.”
- Slightly provides school data
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Because some islands ask for students to interact, this naturally leads to more conversation throughout the program.”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“I'm not sure our classes used it enough to answer the question with complete confidence, however, because students were giving positive feedback in our abbreviated use, I'm fairly confident with more extended use it could have a significant impact on wellbeing.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Several comments from students along the lines of, "I'd never thought of it like that before..."”
Kayti Selbie
Teacher Librarian
Used Persona Life Skills monthly for 0–3 months
Jun 2022
I think it is an excellent programme for both students and their tutors. It provides an opportunity for students to learn about themselves and their peers in a non-threatening environment. It also allows tutors to view student responses and to have a deeper understanding of their worries, attitudes and behaviours.
Kayti Selbie found Persona Life Skills:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
- Moderately provides school data
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students need to work collaboratively to engage with the programme and they are encouraged to reflect on their collaborative skills and how to improve them.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Students are able to reflect on both their behaviour and their sense of well-being. Tutors are able to read reflections and engage directly with students when appropriate.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“It builds their self-knowledge and awareness of others.”
Bhavana Samant
Teacher
Used Persona Life Skills weekly for 4-6 months
Feb 2022
It cannot give perfect output as children may not always be honest and sincere in their opinions while performing such wonderful tasks.
Bhavana Samant found Persona Life Skills:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“As such students are trying to explore their personalities on their own and some of them are actually enjoying doing this way. But there are some others who are least interested in logging in also so we as teachers have to push them constantly to imbibe interest.”
- Slightly provides school data“We do get to know about a child's varied personality traits from the concise report formed by Persona.”
- Does not significantly increase student collaboration“Some of them did the activities in pairs. Yes they could connect their thoughts and hence improve their team sharing skills.”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing“I observed that many of them do not do the tasks genuinely so could not identify much changes.”
- Does not significantly build student knowledge“None”
Jan 2022
Persona give you everything you need to create a PSHE that not only interactive but engaging and insightful. In boarding its a brilliant edition to a weekly prep programme.
Tim Allen found Persona Life Skills:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Being able to get Students leadership of their PSHE programme has been great”
- Significantly provides school data“Such insightful data really helps us evidence the best practice we do as a boarding community”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Having students discuss and understand their own persona outcomes has helped our students understand each other.”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Persona has created better student engagement”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Students understand themselves better now!”
SUMATHI VENUGOPALAN
CHIEF ACADEMIC ADVISOR
Used Persona Life Skills occasionally for 0–3 months
Jan 2022
An easy, communicative, self directed, self focused, non assessed, interesting, comprehensive and effective way of not only but being aware of oneself but also for providing a platform for self directed improvement without the fear of any kind of labeling.
SUMATHI VENUGOPALAN found Persona Life Skills:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Students are self motivated with a better understanding of the purpose of the lessons designed for a course. The classroom behviour has been positively impacted.”
- Moderately provides school data“Students skill sets have been understood in a better way leading to a better intervention plan.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students are keen on adopting expected behaviour patterns for a better peer review.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Students believe in doing things in a particular way because they have developed an understanding and have taken responsibility for their own behaviour.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“It has increased involvement in all that the students do.”
Jan 2022
It is helpful and never is judgemental
Tarka Tokekar found Persona Life Skills:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Help to know students”
- Significantly provides school data“Helps to know interest areas”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students work in teams”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Empathy towards peers”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students explore their likes”
Nisha Tiwari
Teacher
Used Persona Life Skills occasionally for 0–3 months
Jan 2022
Good to get inspired to complete tasks
Nisha Tiwari found Persona Life Skills:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Activity”
- Moderately provides school data“Not clear”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Independent working”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Not clear”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Learning by doing”
Jan 2022
As Iam also new to this Persona Life Skill program. Need to learn and understand more about the same.
Seena Shaji found Persona Life Skills:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“To recheck how many students completed and how many yet to complete.”
- Slightly provides school data“I can only know about the number of students”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students use to participate in discussion and try to talk about their friends and even try to know more about them.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Yes, Life skills teaches them to introspect about themselves. It make them to think critically , tackle the situation,analyze their attitude too.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“They learn about their well being.They try to develop more skills and learn how to analyse every individual.”
Narayani
Principal
Used Persona Life Skills weekly for 4-6 months
Jan 2022
In this digital world, the students well being is the priority. As classes are online, it is challenging to motivate students in this regards. Persona is a highly appreciated initiative as it can be accessed online
Narayani found Persona Life Skills:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“To know their self is very important. A teacher acts as a counselor to make learners understand this. But after taking up Persona life skills, the intervention of the teacher is minimised in this regard.”
- Moderately provides school data“Yet to see the impact”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Students discuss about the islands to get to know the different perspectives in their thoughts”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Yet to understand”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Yet to analyse”
Raja Rajeswari
Teaching assistant
Used Persona Life Skills weekly for 7–12 months
Jan 2022
Student centered
Raja Rajeswari found Persona Life Skills:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Checking with students”
- Slightly provides school data“No comments”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Interest of students”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Cooperative”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Correlation”
Jan 2022
Anusha Trivedi found Persona Life Skills:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
- Does not significantly provide school data
- Significantly increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Mar 2021
Staff and students have enjoyed and benefitted from the platform and the Persona Life team have been incredibly supportive.
Tamsin Cardale found Persona Life Skills:
- Slightly increases student collaboration“The first 6 weeks (Online) saw low levels of collaboration, the final 2-3 weeks (in school) there was more collaboration”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Self-Awareness improved”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge and skills“The data is helpful, particularly with new year groups coming through the school”
- Does not provide school data“We haven't used the results in this way”
Feb 2021
Really useful programme that is really useful to use. We started using Persona before lockdown but have been able to run the islands remotely during virtual learning. The option for colleagues to identifier their personality style is a great add on. Lastly the students at the academy have loved finding out but their personality style and those of their friends.
Tom Cue found Persona Life Skills:
- Moderately increases student collaboration“During the initial launce of the 3 island students interacted with their tutor to discuss the different personality styles. The 3 sessions allowed students to discuss with their tutor and peers about their own style and how to communicate with others. The use of the learning platform allowed students to then rate each other in a safe and fun manner.”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“The academy held a virtual Inset at the end of the spring term and one of the sessions allowed staff at the academy to reflect on hw they interact with students and provided them with ideas on how to foster a better relationship approach when dealing with conflict.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge and skills“The data that is stored on each student provides really useful insights on how adapt teaching for key audiences and provides colleagues with a greater range of tools. The information on the e-learning site regarding pedagogy is really useful!!!”
- Moderately provides school data“The academy has only just started using the programme but there are plans for the heat mats for each student to be used at part of the academies student passports.”