Parent Information

Dear Parent/ Carer,

We are delighted to announce that the Outwood Grange Academies Trust is introducing the new “FutureFIT” programme to our secondary schools, as part of our ongoing commitment to ensuring your child is supported and prepared in considering their future education and career pathways.

The FutureFIT programme is designed to meet the challenges of delivering impactful and authentic future learning and career insights in the school curriculum, while maintaining a focus on national curriculum learning outcomes.

FutureFIT is a series of video resources that will help students to link the knowledge and skills they are learning in the classroom to future learning and employment opportunities. The FutureFIT programme brings a fantastic range of contributors from industry and higher education to talk about their experience and careers, to inspire and empower our students on their career journey.

The FutureFIT programme will be launched after the Easter holiday, with initial displays and introductory messages in our schools, on our website and digital learning platform. We will also conduct a survey with students to understand aspirations, attitudes and knowledge about their future options. From the start of the summer term 2021, the FutureFIT video resources will then be delivered through assemblies, tutor time and then directly in lessons across a range of Subjects. The FutureFIT resources have been aligned to our curriculum learning outcomes for each subject and will therefore support and enhance your child’s normal learning curriculum.

FutureFIT resources will be delivered initially across Year7 to Year 11 (with expansion to Y12-13 from 2021-22). They are integrated and available across 10 subjects: English, Mathematics, Science, Modern Foreign Languages, Computer Science, Art, Dance and Drama, Music, Geography and History. FutureFIT enables teachers to bring future learning and career insights meaningfully and with relevance into their lessons. This is achieved without sacrificing time in academic curriculum learning outcomes. Instead, teachers will use FutureFIT to enhance, inspire, demonstrate, bring to life, or offer an alternative lens through which to achieve learning outcomes.

We hope that your child will be inspired by the FutureFIT presenters and will increase their understanding of their future options. FutureFIT helps your child see where the subjects they study at school can lead. We are delighted to be introducing this exciting programme through the Trust at this critical time for education. You will hear more about the delivery of this exciting new programme via ..., and as always we welcome any feedback.

Kind regards,

Debra Fowlston