Last updated: September 2024

Careers Related Learning is an area of the curriculum that allows children to learn about the world of work in a variety of ways. At Firs we believe that it is vitally important to help educate the children on what comes next and how what they learn within school can directly impact their futures.

Where it began!

Careers Related Learning at Firs

Careers related learning has been recently introduced across the whole school at Firs and it has been agreed that at least one CRL session will take part every half term (more regularly if it is appropriate).  These sessions should include interaction with someone from a chosen career– these people can be found using the ‘Primary Futures’ website and can be carried out in person or virtually, whichever is more appropriate.

The main aims of this subject are to:

• Educate children on the world of work.

• Ensure children understand the opportunities that are available to them within the wider world.

• Provide opportunities to meet and talk to people from a range of different careers.

• Raise the aspirations of our children, showing them how the world of work links with our curriculum.

• Teach and develop key skills that will help our children be more resilient, such as teamwork, communication skills and problem solving.

• Develop children’s future employability skills.

Special visitors

At Firs last year we had some really exciting visitors come into school and talk about the jobs that they did and how they got into them. We had the opportunity to ask them questions and find out why they wanted to do the job that they do and what skills they needed to get into them. Some of these jobs included, local councillors, vets, Police officers, Fire fighters, musicians as well as an engineer from Rolls Royce.