Vision
At our school, we are passionate about inspiring, encouraging, and fostering limitless career outcomes for all pupils. We believe that every child, regardless of background, ability, gender, culture, or life experience should grow up knowing that their dreams matter and that they have the potential to achieve anything.
By embedding careers education across the curriculum, we help pupils make meaningful links between their learning and the wider world. From Nursery through to Year 6, we use the Skills Builder programme to explicitly develop essential life skills, ensuring a consistent and progressive approach for all learners.
Careers in the curriculum plays a vital role in raising aspirations, challenging stereotypes, and building self-belief. Through Skills Builder, purposeful curriculum links and real life experiences pupils develop key skills such as communication, teamwork, and problem-solving, helping them to understand how the learning they do today supports their future pathways.
Intent
Our careers curriculum is designed to ensure that pupils develop a strong foundation of essential skills that will support them throughout their education and into adult life. At the centre of this approach is the Skills Builder framework, which provides a clear structure for teaching, practising, and applying key skills in a progressive and meaningful way.
Through Skills Builder, pupils are taught the eight essential skills: Listening, Speaking, Problem Solving, Creativity, Adapting, Planning, Leadership, and Teamwork. These skills are embedded within everyday learning and wider school experiences.
The intent of our careers curriculum is to help pupils recognise their strengths, build confidence, and develop resilience. By revisiting and building upon these essential skills from Nursery to Year 6, pupils develop increasing independence and self-awareness, enabling them to approach challenges positively and with ambition.
Our approach ensures that all pupils gain the transferable skills needed to make informed choices, adapt to future opportunities, and successfully navigate the next stages of their education, laying strong foundations for lifelong learning and employability.
Implementation
Each week, pupils work on carefully planned steps that are matched to their stage of development. During these sessions time is spent explicitly teaching and practising the identified step, ensuring pupils fully understand the skill and how to apply it.
The skills taught are then revisited and reinforced throughout the week across different areas of the curriculum. This repeated rehearsal allows pupils to embed their learning, make meaningful connections, and apply the skills in a range of contexts. Across the year, these steps are revisited regularly so that learning is secure before being built upon progressively.
Through out the year pupils benefit from in-school visits from people working in a wide range of careers. These sessions highlight how both knowledge and transferable skills developed in school are essential in the workplace. Pupils create clear real-life links by gaining first-hand experience of speaking to professionals about their career pathways, the choices they made, and how these experiences have shaped their lives. This approach supports pupils in understanding the relevance of their learning and builds confidence in communication and aspiration for the future.
Impact
Having careers education within the curriculum has a significant and lasting impact on our pupils. Pupils develop a greater understanding of the world around them and gain knowledge of a wide range of careers, pathways and opportunities available to them beyond school. Through meaningful exposure to different professions, pupils build a broad range of experiences across their school life.
This approach raises pupils’ aspirations and ambitions. Pupils develop a positive self-image and increased confidence as they recognise their own strengths, skills and potential. As a result, pupils are better prepared to make informed choices, communicate effectively, and approach their future with optimism and self-belief.
