‘Creating tomorrow’s citizens today’ means that it is important for our careers education to be interwoven through student’s primary years, as a foundation and springboard for the formal structure of careers education in the secondary phase. We believe in:
- Providing an enriching curriculum, both through the main curriculum and through extra-curricular activities – which all students will be invited to. The breadth of offer is intended to inspire, to support progression of skills, and to invite students to make a commitment to their interests.
- Our emphasis on our values education supports students to fully understand the character virtues which they will need through their lives and careers. An emphasis is placed on ‘responsibility’, for example, and we promote students’ independence and responsibility for their own learning. The value of hope and aspiration teaches students’ to have broad and exciting horizons.
- Exposure to future careers is taught through every subject of the curriculum: for example, from Understanding the world in the Early Years (a focus is included on the emergency services and people who help us) to biology, chemistry and physics, to computing, to geography and the application of mathematics skills.