Endless Fun.
Essential Skills. Empowered Kids.

Arrowhead Skills is not school. However, we proudly partner with schools and their communities to bring a different way of learning essential skills to life in harmony with existing programmes and methods. We like to challenge. We like to be bold. We are a people and connections first business in a world full of technology.

Who We Are

Arrowhead Skills is an education company working across Malaysia with the purpose of embedding essential skills in every child by developing resilient, creative, and adaptable global citizens.

We work in partnership with schools to enhance their existing programmes for students and with parents to support learning outside of the school and classroom.

Arrowhead Skills believes in developing the human skills that are vital in a world where technology continues to evolve and disrupt. 

We recognise that being technologically literate is essential, but the global citizens of the future will need to be creative, empathetic, and lateral thinkers, skills that cannot easily be replicated by technology. 

We believe in future-proofing the children of today for tomorrow’s world.

Our Values

Fun Is Fundamental

We create positive and enjoyable environments and experiences

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We believe in the importance of finding enjoyment and fulfilment in our everyday experiences. Our camps and programmes have “fun” at the heart of them. There is a direct correlation between ‘fun & games’ and the ability of children to learn; facilitating positive emotional connections to their learning. Whilst having fun, children will feel empowered to thrive, succeed and flourish to their full potential.

Embrace Challenge

We seek out and embrace challenges as opportunities for growth, innovation and success

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We encourage a mindset of facing challenges and being positively disruptive as pathways to learn, evolve and achieve excellence. Our camps and programmes are designed to engage and challenge children in a way that encourages creative and innovative problem solving, both in groups or individually. Failure is seen positively as an opportunity to grow, develop and learn whilst teaching resilience in the face of uncertainty, difficulty or adversity.

Drive Impactful Change

We continuously strive to make a meaningful and positive impact

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We are dedicated to creating significant change and positive outcomes within ourselves, the organisations and the individuals we interact with. We take our mission to help support the positive development of the global leaders and citizens of the future seriously. Our camps and programmes encourage an ethos of caring for others and caring for ourselves. Through teamwork and positive reinforcement the creative, empathetic and leadership qualities of the

Local View, Global Outlook

We embrace and seek to understand the communities we work with whilst main- taining a global perspective that values diversity, inclusivity and collaboration

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We are sensitive to the values and needs of the local communities in which we operate while remaining committed to a global view that creates dynamic and inclusive experiences for all, broadening horizons and appreciating the learning from working with differing perspectives.


Our camps and programmes encourage active listening where students listen to, value and give their own perspectives and thoughts while working on collaborative and creative ways of doing a range of activities. We will incorporate the diverse nationalities, cultures and experiences of the international students we work with.

Meet Our Founders

Pete Barrett

Director

Pete is like your guide to leveling up in real life. Originally from the UK, Pete has spent nearly a decade in Asia. He has previously founded an education company in China helping students to build teamwork, leadership, problem-solving, and resilience through an entrepreneurial based programme rooted in the principles of a Growth Mindset. His real talent? Keeping the operation ticking behind the scenes for Arrowhead Skills. Pete doesn't leave all the adventure to Paul though, he's cycled the length of the UK!


Paul Nelson

Director

Paul is a human adventure machine. He’s rowed across the Atlantic, is a certified rugby coach, and has worked in vocational education in the UK. He’s an active member of a local performing arts society in Kuala Lumpur, where he acts, directs, and produces shows. Paul also led Project Oarsome at the John O’Gaunt Rowing Club in the UK, encouraging school kids to take up rowing. At camp, he’ll push you to try new things, cheer when you succeed, and make sure you have a ton of laughs along the way and is the heartbeat of camp life.


Join The Arrowhead Skills Team

If you enjoy working with curious minds alongside children and instructors from diverse backgrounds and nationalities, then this could be the ideal fit for you.

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