Careers
At Hartley, we are excited to launch our careers programme this year (2022-23). We have started by creating a vision for what we want our children to experience and know about the world of careers; we are then inviting in guest speakers and workshops run by professionals in our community (including parents, industry experts and alumni of the school!); finally, we are weaving careers education into the curriculum and linking this with our units of inquiry.
We have created four main aims for our careers programme:
Encounters: To expose our children to as many different careers as possible by the time they leave us in Year Six. By the time they leave us, we want them to have been exposed to at least 50 different careers: 50 by 11!
Stereotypes: To break down (in particular, gender and disabilities) stereotypes with regards to careers and show that most people are able to do any job.
Understanding: To give our children an understanding of what skills and knowledge they will need to have for different types of careers, and how this journey begins in Primary School, continues through Secondary School and then beyond. To build the understanding that learning is linked with their future.
Aspirations: To raise our children’s aspirations of what careers are possible to them.
We have signed up to the website ‘Primary Futures’ which gives us access to resources related to primary careers programmes such as videos from workers in different careers. But this is only the first small step for us; we want all of our children to be confident, ambitious and excited about their future possibilities: we aim to take our children on as many visits as possible that are in some way related to careers; we want volunteers and visitors to come and talk to our children and run workshops as much as possible; we want to link our curriculum learning with careers and much more!
Psychologist
Mrs Hulford visited us to talk about her work as a psychologist; she told us she loves working with people, helping find solutions to problems and science! She always wanted to do this job and has got to travel all over the world! What an exciting sounding job!
Aneasthetist
Mr Hulford came and talked to us about his job as a doctor and aneasthetist. He said he loves science and helping people, and that after volunteering for the ambulance service, he decided that this is what he wanted to do! It sounds like a high pressured and important job!
Journalist
Mrs Hollis visited Year 5 and 6 to talk about her work in broadcasting and journalism; she told us about all the different types of jobs in TV, not just the presenters and she taught us good ways to spot fake news stories!
Veterinary nurse
Mrs Sammons visited us to talk about her work as a vetirinary nurse; she told us she loves working ith animals, and helping them get better and that she had wanted to do this job since she had left school! We learnt about her uniform and some of the different things she does day to day in her job.
Police
Mrs Todd from the police visited us. She also brought with her a dog handler with two of her dogs and another police officer. The children got to explore the police cars, meet the dogs, try on uniforms and ask lots of questions about the job! What a great morning!