Careers

 

The CDI framework has been used as a basis for our curriculum, using the 17 learning outcome statements under the 3 themes of:

1. Developing yourself through careers, employability and enterprise education;

2. Learning about careers and the world of work;

3. Developing your career management and employment skills.

This Framework, which is the nationally recognised framework for careers education and work related learning, covers Key Stages 2 – 5.   Complete Careers expanded the Framework to include Foundation and Key Stage 1. We have used this expanded framework for our career focus for the whole school curriculum.  

Each Theme has a number of Outcomes;

•  Theme 1 has 3 Outcomes (Outcomes 1-3);

•  Theme 2 has 6 Outcomes (Outcomes 4-9);

•  Theme 3 has 8 Outcomes (Outcomes 10 – 17)

Each outcome has an ‘Element of Learning’ for each Key Stage. From this we have created a scheme of work and lesson plans for our career’s curriculum.

We want the pupils to move from an apathetic attitude of ‘I don’t know’ and the future doesn’t matter to a position of being able to:

•          Self-evaluate skills they have

•          Say what they are good at and enjoy doing

•          Identify what they enjoy learning about

•          Find out about different opportunities in what jobs entail

•          Be aware of different ways to look at people’s careers and how they develop

•          Be aware that people feel differently about the work they do

•          Be aware that they have the same rights to learn and work as others

•          Identify key qualities and skills employers are looking for

•          Know different roots in education open to them

 

Pupils have developed an understanding of in the competences taken from the Careers Yorkshire and Humber Key Skills and Attitudes:

 

Events and activities that are part of our career’s curriculum:

· George Fouche’s visit added to our curriculum. He is a recognised motivational talk that comes how recommended to raise aspirations and develop the hard and soft skills needed for employment and life. Within this talk, he described how he has had several careers and set-backs along the way to change his pathway. His experience emphasised the theme of developing your career, management and employability skills, a huge emphasis being on skills.

· Our children involved in fund raising for charities e.g., Spring Fair fund raising stalls at Skipsea

· Career’s week had several visitors who gave a talk to the children. The children prepared thoughtful questions to ask the visitors. We ensured we challenged stereotypes we asked for representatives of different genders to visit. We are requested visitors from a wide variety of jobs e.g., vet, police, In-shore rescue and authors and poets virtually beamed in. We ensure that visitors and careers discussed are accessible to all and cater for all learning styles.

· Carefully planned transition visits and talks from secondary pupils helped our pupils prepare for the next phase of their education.

· Pupils apply for jobs around school, such as, library monitor, book monitors, water bottle monitors

· Some jobs in school required the pupils to write a speech and present their case to the class. The class then vote for who will represent them. Such roles include House Captains and School Council representatives.

· Specific lessons on money awareness are carried out.

 

  • These are the areas we would love to hear about:

    • What do you do in your job on a daily basis?

    • What training do you need?

    • What qualifications do you need?

    • What career path did you take? (Did you do other things before this job? Did you do alternative qualifications? Did your ideas change along the way about what you wanted to do?)

    • Which parts of the job do you like/not like; are easy/hard?

    • What skills do you need?

    When giving a talk to the children you could show them props that you use in your line of work. Could you give a demonstration? Have you any photos or videos of you or others doing the job? Our children would love to see them. Some people like to use a PowerPoint to give their talk and others rather it was through questioning from the children.

    If you prefer you can give these to one class at a time or to an assembly.

    Please let us know how you would like to do this.

    Thank you for considering to help educate our children. It is an important contribution and helps our children consider their futures and have aspirations.

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