Careers and Raising Aspirations

at Stanhope Primary School

Careers Related Learning – our vision.

At Stanhope Primary we have high aspirations for our pupils across our whole curriculum, including their career choices. 

It is our vision that children from all areas of our community will have a career dream that they will work towards, now and in the future.

We want our children to envisage themselves working in a role that they love and earning to their fullest potential. 

We wish them to be financially stable and able to provide security for themselves and their families.

We want our pupils to develop an excellent work ethic which will set them apart from others.

We wish for the parents of our children to be able to act as their children’s advisors and to champion their journey into the workforce of our community.

We value all children and their hopes and dreams for what they would like to do when they grow up. We feel that children need a wide and varied choice of careers and occupations to prepare them for adulthood. We see it as our privilege to be able to show them what’s on offer and set them on those first steps on their career journey.

All of our careers related learning closely follows the eight Gatsby Benchmarks;

Careers Fair 

We held an amazing careers fair in September for the whole school. We have dressed as NHS staff in EYFS, in KS1 and KS2 we got to meet and speak with people who were from a vast range of careers from balloon modellers to deep-sea engineers!

We have learned that anyone can do any job and that our gender, sex, religion, abilities and disabilities won’t hold us back.

We are also learning, in class, how our subjects like English, Maths, Science and others can help us to get where we want to be. We will also be learning how we can manage the money we earn and open a bank account, too.

We also hope to host a careers event for our parents, too-Just watch this space!

Contact Mrs Ali for any help and advice in this area.