2 September 2020
2 September 2020
Primary teachers – sign up for one of our upcoming CPD webinars! These interactive virtual sessions will provide an opportunity to learn about best practice in primary age career related learning from our regional Cornwall project and provide training in how to run virtual sessions with employers and how to use Primary Futures to raise […]
Read more16 July 2020
16 July 2020
Full of achievements, celebrations and challenges, this academic year has been like no other. We’d like to share highlights from Primary Futures schools this year and thank our supporters and stakeholders for continuing to help inspire younger generations. Impact Since September 2019, over 1,000 schools have worked with us to reach over 250,000 children and young people. This includes helping […]
Read more16 July 2020
16 July 2020
This academic year has been full of achievements, celebrations and challenges. We’d like to share highlights of the year from Inspiring the Future schools and thank our supporters and stakeholders for continuing to help inspire younger generations. Impact Since September 2019, over 1,000 schools have worked with us to reach over 250,000 children and young […]
Read more15 July 2020
15 July 2020
Be What You See: Supporting youth to enter the world of work To coincide with World Youth Skills Day, the article below has been published by the OECD on their forum network. The annual World Youth Skills Day aims to celebrate the importance of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and equipping young people […]
Read more29 June 2020
29 June 2020
This article appeared in the June 2020 edition of CareerMatters, the magazine for the career development sector published by the Career Development Institute. The importance of career-related learning in primary schools In responding to the Covid pandemic much of the focus of the careers profession is rightly on the needs of secondary / tertiary students […]
Read more17 June 2020
17 June 2020
Over the coming weeks we are hosting a series of CPD webinars for teachers looking at integrating career-related learning, how to use Primary Futures virtually and in-school, and the impact of our primary programme. Primary Futures Teacher CPD – Friday 19th June, 10am Using internationally recognised research we’ve conducted around career-related learning in primary schools, […]
Read more15 June 2020
15 June 2020
In May, Primary Futures held the first two virtual ‘What’s My Line?’ sessions with reception to Year 6 children from Newark Hill Academy in Peterborough and Wistaston Academy in Cheshire. These new interactive sessions mirror the in-school assemblies, allowing pupils to guess volunteers’ jobs through hints and props before learning about what they do. Children joined the 30-minute sessions on an online webinar platform. After a hello from teachers and the volunteers, Primary Futures hosts introduced the activity and rules of the ‘What’s My Line?’ game. […]
Read more3 June 2020
3 June 2020
Since 2018 Health Education England (HEE) have been working with Inspiring the Future and Primary Futures to get more NHS staff connecting with school children of all ages on a regular basis, talking about the breadth of interesting roles available and answering questions about their jobs. NHS Ambassadors take part in school activities such as assemblies, speed networking, career days […]
Read more27 May 2020
27 May 2020
Over the next two weeks, Inspiring the Future will be hosting a series of short 15-minute information webinars to provide more details about the new virtual interactive sessions to interested schools and stakeholders. These webinars will include information on what the sessions involve for primary and secondary students, safeguarding procedures in place, how to sign […]
Read more14 May 2020
14 May 2020
The Our Future Derby project has launched a series of webinars, providing opportunities to learn more about the progress of the project and recent evaluation findings from Derby, as well as for teachers and volunteers to access dedicated online training to help with embedding career-related learning in primary schools. The project has been delivering a […]
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