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Careers CurriculumCareers Curriculum
- Intent: Providing a range of career options (ten sectors) that develop curiosity, aspiration) and provide a context for school. One of the key goals of the curriculum is for pupils to recognise how school and education connect and can be the driver for a successful future
Key Principles
- Broad understanding of careers
- Open tasks that require collaboration
- Awareness of key skills
- Challenging stereotypes
Broad Understanding of Careers:
Pupils are taught about 66 different careers across ten different sectors. The objective is to tackle the “I want to be a footballer,” comment that seems to dominate the focus of many of our pupils.
Children learn about what it takes to be a successful advertising director so that the world starts talking about their product. As an MP, children will feel the pressure of making a speech in the rowdy atmosphere of the House of Commons. The lawyer lesson turns the class into a trial with lawyers (defending and prosecuting), a jury, witnesses and a judge.
Oracy and Collaboration:
The vast majority of career lessons include an open task that requires pupils to delegate, empathy and practice a wide array of collaboration skills. They will create speeches, design prototypes, collect market research and direct a cast of actors. This practical application engagement but above all, leans on the skills they will need when they enter the world of work.
Awareness of key skills:
At the end of every KS2 lesson there is an opportunity for pupils to discuss which key skills are most important for the studied career. This element of the curriculum improves vocabulary, raises awareness of what each career requires but crucially, gets pupils thinking about their own skills.
Pupils are also encouraged to lean on the skills they are developing across the school curriculum. For example, pupils need to use maths in the accountant lesson and DT in the structural engineer lesson.
Challenging Stereotypes:
Work-based stereotyping is tackled throughout the curriculum through the inclusion of misconceptions and carefully selected illustrations.
By doing this, we aim to open up the world of work for pupils and make it clear that all jobs are attainable no matter your gender.
