We have enjoyed celebrating National Career’s week at Reid Street. We have completed work on careers, jobs and stereotypes and had many visitors into school. Reception had visits from Nurse Walton, PC Banks and PC Jones. The children enjoyed learning about their jobs and even got to dress up in the police and nurse’s uniforms. Nurse Walton also visited Year 5 where she talked about her career path. She always wanted to be a nurse from a young age so she went to university and trained for her job. She thought she would want to be in the operating theatre but that was boring! She now works in intensive care which is her dream job and she finds it’s incredibly rewarding.
Mrs Davison arranged (through the Primary Futures website) an aspirations morning which involved a ‘What’s my Job?’ assembly followed by Speed Networking events in the Year 4 and Year 5 classrooms.
Six volunteers attended, including a Clinical Research Project Manager, a Regional Manager for an Agricultural Company, a Finance Manager, Marketing Advertiser and a Management Consultant. As a school, we had to guess their job. During the assembly, the volunteers were only allowed to answer yes or no to the questions posed by the children. We were thrilled that we managed to guess 4 of the jobs out of the 6.
The volunteers were incredibly helpful and interesting to listen to. The children and staff thoroughly enjoyed the morning and gained a valuable insight into a range of jobs and careers. It was perfect as the jobs were not your mainstream jobs such as vet, hairdressers, teachers etc. The year 4 and year 5 children also enjoyed the speed networking which allowed them to ask their own questions which included: qualifications needed, training, their salaries and their own school life.
The volunteers seemed to enjoy it too:
“Thank you for the invite and can I say how much I enjoyed Wednesday’s aspirations morning. The pupils were fantastic and a credit to the school. I shall look forward to any further invites from Reid Street School.” Simon “I really enjoyed the experience and I’d be delighted to support future events. I love the fact that one child asked if I was a spy.” Keith The whole week was a great success and made everyone realise that you can’t leave careers education until children go to secondary school. Everyone should have a career plan for the future.
