At Hilderthorpe Primary School we recognise the important role that is played by primary schools in enabling children to have high aspirations about their future, and to help them learn how to become independent citizens.
As a school, our aim is to inspire our children by providing them with a range of meaningful experiences, visits and visitors that teach them about the wonderful world of work. By doing so, our careers programme helps to provide our children with information and an insight into interesting careers to shape their futures.
Our effective careers support will help pupils:
- To feel self-assured, confident and optimistic about their futures – becoming motivated and inspired to learn and excel themselves.
- To develop the resilience to take risks, deal appropriately with any disappointments, setbacks and challenges to equip them for the real world of work.
- To help children to understand the relevance of learning to their futures.
- To prepare young people for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of real life.
Our aims are:
- To inspire our children to think of their futures and have a secure knowledge of a range of interesting careers to help raise their aspirations.
- To understand the basic skills and attitudes needed to be successful in the world of work and provide experiences of meaningful interactions through guest visitors and virtual events.
- To challenge all forms of stereotypes and preconceptions about careers.
- To develop our children’s self-evaluation skills and encourage them to make plans for their futures.
- To help children understand career related vocabulary and be able to use it when discussing various careers.
All of our pupils, from EYFS to KS2, experience a wide range of visits from people in a variety of different careers – taking varied pathways, enabling them to learn about different options that are available to them. In KS2, children are able to ask questions and develop their understanding of each career.
