Career-related learning in primary school settings is about helping ‘children to understand who they could become and helping them to develop a health sense of self that will enable them to reach their full potential’ (Niles and Harris-Bowlsbey, 2017). Many primary teachers engage their students in everyday learning that could be described as career-related learning, so we’ve collated some resources that you might find beneficial.
My Money Week is a national activity week for primary and secondary school aged children and young people, providing a fantastic opportunity for them to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence in money matters to thrive in society. The resources are flexible for use in a variety of settings, and the latest resources include both a Teacher’s Guide and a Home Learning Guide to support teachers, parents, and youth workers in using the My Money Week resources both in school and at home.
Teachers, parents and anyone working with children and young people can sign up for a free My Money Week account below. This will give you access to all My Money Week resources back to 2014 and ensure you are kept up to date when new resources are available.
Note to parents: To sign up to the My Money Week Resource Hub as a parent, please use your child’s school name and address in the Organisation Name and Organisation Address fields on the registration form, and select Parent/Home Educator under Organisation Type.
This lesson is designed to help young people identify positive workplace behaviours and understand how they can practise these in everyday life to always present a good impression at work. The lesson explores the importance of appropriate communication and body language and responding assertively to different workplace situations.
A careers resource pack for teachers, ambassadors and advisers to use with groups of students.
This resource is also available to order in print, free of charge.
This resource is considers gender stereotypes by asking pupils to sort jobs into 2 categories; male and female. There is then some suggested questions for a discussion about why they have chosen to put each job in that category.
Learning Objective: To explore attitudes towards gender in different careers
These resources contain accessible ‘how to’ guides for teachers, looking at practical ways to implement the principles of effective career-related learning. Find out more about measuring impact, working with your school governors or trustees, creating a labour market information resource, and making contact with local businesses.
How to contact local employers.
The effect of CRL on the decisions, aspirations and attitudes of primary aged children report
This Primary Careers Resources Platform will help you: Embed career-related learning in your school’s curriculum, Conduct career-related learning activities with your class, Engage parents and other stakeholders in career-related learning. These easy-to-use resources and tools will give you a helping hand in embedding the principles of effective careers education and enhance the quality and impact of career-related learning in your school.
Our platform provides teachers and school leaders with high-quality resources that can be used to embed and deliver career-related learning. The resources are free for you to download and most are from organisations that have been funded to test what works at primary, as well as other trusted providers.
You can access and download resources for free.
This pack will help teachers to personalise career-related learning for their pupils.
Alongside ideas for classroom activities, these resources contain suggestions about how to engage with parents and local employers.
A range of competitions and classroom activities designed for students to explore what they’re good at and what they want to be,a wide range of jobs available in the NHS and the qualities and skills required
This collection of resources support learning about STEM subjects using the context of exploring Mars. Using the context of the ExoMars mission, activities link to areas of the curriculum including: science, D&T and computing. There are activities focused on children of different ages, ranging from 5-18 years of age.
The ExoMars mission is a collaboration between ESA and the Russian State Space Corporation, Roscosmos. By working together, the ExoMars mission has already put a spacecraft in orbit around Mars – the Trace Gas Orbiter. The second part of the mission, now due to launch in 2022, is sending a high-tech rover to land on Mars. The rover, Rosalind Franklin will be searching for the building blocks of life on Mars. It is the first robot of its kind that can both roam around Mars, and also drill down to study samples two metres below the surface.
Children’s stories provide a great context for learning science. Explore our resource packages based around popular children’s books and discover the science hidden in a book. Resources include book summaries, hints and tips for teaching the science and further stories on a similar theme.
As a teacher at a school or college, you can play a pivotal role in the career development of students.
To help you provide the best possible support to young people, we have put together a selection of resources, programmes and guidance
About market information (LMI) provides quantitative and qualitative data about the workplace. It may include information about the range of jobs available, salaries and the demand for, and supply of, labour. It also gives you information about skill supply and shortages and the impact of national and global economics on the different job sectors.
In a few short questions students can find out how their skills and passions could lead to an exciting job in engineering.
The Look and Learn Programme is a science-based workshop designed to engage ppils in KS1 and KS2. This aims to teach pupils about eyesight, eye health and eye conditions. All chapters of the workshop are mapped to elements of the English and Scottish KS1/KS2 curriculums. They are designed to last approximately 50 minutes, similar to a standard lesson. This downloadable resource pack includes:
– Label the Eye activity
– Ambassador Guide
– Teacher Guides and video
– Create a Flipbook activity
– Eye Colour Chart
– Look and learn letter
– Word Search
– Make your own glasses activity
– Write in Braille Activity
Science – Inspire students with the world and wonder of science and browse resources to support you and your teaching. Science is the key to unlocking a variety of rich and varied career pathways. We’ve put together a selection of video teaching resources to help you bring careers learning to life.
Our primary science resource packages provide a useful starting point for teachers in planning and delivering science lessons or in supplementing a teacher’s own planning. Resources are organised into topic area and year group and include many opportunities for working scientifically. They provide tips for teachers, highlight common misconceptions and offer further suggestions for use in class.
A guide to the best resources to support primary mathematics aligned to the English National Curriculum.
This resource outlines the ‘hallmarks of success’ for best practice in career-related learning in primary schools.
It provides two activity plans, which teachers can deliver with volunteers from the world of work. These activities will broaden children’s horizons and link what they are learning in school to the wider world.
As part of the primary careers pilot, we have created a ‘Primary Careers Framework’ based on the Gatsby Benchmarks. The framework mirrors the one developed for 11-18 education establishments and is a tool to help guide you on delivering careers education provision to your pupils.
Wonderful Words and Colourful Careers encourages children to use each letter of the alphabet to discover qualities, skills, jobs and learn more about the world of work.
This pack contains:
An overview/brief for teachers using these resources
Editable versions of a session plan and two pupil worksheets for if you need to make further differentiation for your class
The above have also been provided in a designed, PDF format if you’re just looking for something to pick-up and run with!
The Primary Careers Tool is a database of over 100 STEM careers sorted by National Curriculum topic in Science. By clicking on the topic a selection of careers will be randomly presented.
Each career includes a simple explanation of the job, a link that searches for counter-stereotypical images of that type of STEM worker and three attributes that are needed by people who do that job. It doesn’t take long to put this information into presentation slide that can be used in a science lesson. The slide enables discussions about the career, by asking the children if they could do that career and whether they share any of the attributes. The counter-stereotypical images also let the teacher challenge current stereotypes held in the class.
Using the Primary Careers Tool allows teachers to find out about careers that may be new to them, and introduce those careers simply in their lessons. Over time, children will come to realise that studying science opens up a whole world of possibilities to them.
The Primary Careers Tool is a database of over 100 STEM careers sorted by National Curriculum topic in Maths. By clicking on the topic a selection of careers will be randomly presented.
Each career includes a simple explanation of the job, a link that searches for counter-stereotypical images of that type of STEM worker and three attributes that are needed by people who do that job. It doesn’t take long to put this information into presentation slide that can be used in a science lesson. The slide enables discussions about the career, by asking the children if they could do that career and whether they share any of the attributes. The counter-stereotypical images also let the teacher challenge current stereotypes held in the class.
Using the Primary Careers Tool allows teachers to find out about careers that may be new to them, and introduce those careers simply in their lessons. Over time, children will come to realise that studying science opens up a whole world of possibilities to them.
These resources support schools in developing their literacy and career-related learning provision.
They include a video resource, a book list suggesting books relating to different jobs, an activity introducing children to a range of careers, and a poster for staffrooms.
Discusses some of the most common activities to help primary school children to connect between school and the wider world.
Maths is the key to unlocking a variety of rich and varied career pathways. We’ve put together a selection of teaching resources, videos, posters and information to help you explore how maths can be applied in the real world.
The importance of age-specific careers advice,
This resource has been developed to support the delivery of a STEM competition within your school. It is designed to run alongside normal classroom learning and can be used accordingly to suit individual school’s topics, values and timeframes.
Invite a STEM ambassador into your school and hear first-hand how rewarding a career in engineering can be. STEM Ambassadors are an important and exciting free of charge resource for teachers and others engaging with young people inside and out of the classroom.We have made it simple to get involved. Once you have registered, you can find a STEM Ambassador or get involved in an activity from your dashboard.
This lesson is designed to encourage students to see innovation as part of developing an enterprising mindset. It includes the opportunity for students to generate new ideas and present them back to the group.
By the end of the activity students will be able to:
Explore and generate ideas, Reflect on where they see innovation being used and how it links to creativity, Identify what to include in a presentation showcasing an idea, and top tips for presenting”
Drill down to see Labour Market Information (LMI) and think about next steps. Below each video, you can find information relating to job types, including salary and weekly hours; job description, qualifications and tasks; employment by region; future employment; and gender balance.
We see in this short film how careers can be linked to areas of the curriculum even in primary education.
This guide has been produced following extensive research on Enterprise
Education1 to ensure that it reflects the experiences and needs of those delivering
Enterprise Education today and in the future.
The guide aims to support practitioners in schools to embed Enterprise Education
seamlessly into lesson plans, and to apply existing ideas and good practice to
their own approach.
This resource pack provides ideas for discussion, activities and a framework to help you use social entrepreneurship as an engaging project for pupils aged 7–14.
We’re all spending a lot more time at home, with this in mind, we’ve put together some fun activities to help you keep your young children entertained.
Every week you will find something new and interesting to share with your family! Together, you will be able to learn more about the Great North Air Ambulance Service and the important life-saving service we provide in your area.Explore a wide range of activities from arts and crafts, educational talks, and exclusive live base visits with our paramedic Jamie, all whilst in the comfort of your own home!
This collection of practical activities, investigations and games is all based on current lunar research. It supports many aspects of working scientifically and links to area of the curriculum including: earth and space, light and shadows, forces, materials, changes of state and rocks and soils. Activities are provided for children of different ages and have clear curricular and career links and opportunities developing problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity. They can be used individually using a mission to the moon as a context for science learning, or as part of a STEM club or science week.
This resource has been provided by ESERO-UK.
Employees Matter is proud to introduce this pioneering initiative, rolling out across corporate Britain since 2013.
Forget funfairs, playgrounds or even the movies – what could be more exciting than spending a day seeing what adults really do all day?
It’s not only fun-packed, it’s educational, interactive and inspiring, and introduces the concept of work at an early and impressionable age.
The important role that senior leaders and teachers can play in embedding CRL in primary schools is outlined in our paper.
Information about stereotyping and the way children view the world of work.
These lessons have been designed to help teachers get the most out of employee encounters, whether these encounters involve hosting a visitor in school, or visiting employees in their workplace.
The resources will help pupils prepare for the meetings, and link children’s learning to work in lessons.
An introduction to Careers Related Learning in primary schools, including a presentation for staff, and introduction for parents, and various activities to get familiar with the language of CRL and skills.
Resources to support Careers Related Learning across the primary phase, to support and enhance workplace visits and employer encounters.
This resource has been developed to support schools in exploring and challenging gender stereotypes. It can link across the curriculum, for example, looking at jobs linked to STEM subjects and learning about the gender inequality there, or exploring gender inequality in history.
We’ve put together a selection of teaching resources, videos, posters and information to help you explore careers linked to design and technology.
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We’ve put together a selection of teaching resources, videos, posters and information to help you explore careers linked to computing.
CIEC provides a range of curriculum-linked teaching resources for the teaching and learning of the science curriculum.
The resources provide teachers’ notes, presentations and teaching tools, as well as interactive tasks that children can access with teacher guidance.
Our flagship programme bringing the world of industry direct to your classrooms. Includes fully resourced lessons, virtual site visits, interactions with STEM ambassadors and CPD for your teaching staff.
Keep up to date with regular updates from the CIEC team showcasing their resources in action and highlighting current trends in the world of primary STEM via the blog.
This report is an important contribution to that discussion and begins with a reality check – young people don’t feel prepared for the workplace, employers don’t feel young people are work ready, and teachers and parents do not know what framework or programme of ‘employability skills’ is best. It is more important than ever to be having this conversation. The world of work is rapidly changing which means schools, society, and business need to work together to make sure our education system can keep up.
A guide to help you meet the statutory guidance and give impartial careers education – produced by the Association for Careers Education and Guidance and Youth Access. (Apprenticeships, Further Education, Getting a Job, Higher Education, Work Experience, Volunteering & Gap Year, Self-employment/Entrepreneurship). Curriculum planners can use this framework to audit, plan and evaluate their programmes of careers education.They should interpret the framework flexibly in the light of learner needs, particularly with respect to prior attainment or special needs. Aimed for Key Stage 2.
Access research and resources for career-related learning in primary schools.
The Careers & Enterprise Company has released an inspiring new video for educators to encourage Primary learners to challenge stereotypes, broaden their horizons and ignite their inquisitive minds about what their future can hold.
A career is a lifelong journey that starts much earlier than most people realise. From birth, we are surrounded by people and experiences that shape how we see the world. Inevitably, this influences our careers, shaping what we think we are good at, what we value and what we believe is possible. In the past, young people received career support when they were on the brink of making the transition into postsecondary learning or work. As we learnt more about how career development works and what makes career education effective, it became clear that we should start earlier.
In secondary schools, career education now begins long before the transition to work. This raises the question of whether it would be a good idea to start even earlier than this.
The Career Development Institute’s learning outcomes for Careers, Employability and Enterprise Education show progression and ideas for delivery from KS2 to 5.
Free picture stories and illustrated guides to support people with learning disabilities and autism through the coronavirus pandemic.
Lenny and Lily in Lockdown and Lenny and Lily Return to School will help children make sense of their experiences during the coronavirus pandemic, communicate their feelings and prepare for more change as they go back to the classroom. As the stories are told in pictures alone, it is not necessary for children to be able to read words to enjoy them. They are appropriate for pupils in both mainstream and special education settings.
Supporting text at the end of each story gives teaching staff and parents guidance on how to use the stories with children.
Scroll down to download both stories for free.
These resources provide the structure to deliver a whole school careers programme, allowing pupils to explore ‘careers of the future’. There are resources for delivering classroom activities, and for running an in-school employers’ event (including resources for employers to use on the day).
While these resources make reference to their local area and context, they are adaptable for use in schools anywhere.
These resources provide the structure to deliver a whole school careers programme, allowing pupils to explore ‘careers of the future’. There are resources for delivering classroom activities, and for running an in-school employers’ event (including resources for employers to use on the day).
While these resources make reference to their local area and context, they are adaptable for use in schools anywhere.
These resources provide the structure to deliver a whole school careers programme, allowing pupils to explore ‘careers of the future’. There are resources for delivering classroom activities, and for running an in-school employers’ event (including resources for employers to use on the day).
While these resources make reference to their local area and context, they are adaptable for use in schools anywhere.
These resources provide the structure to deliver a whole school careers programme, allowing pupils to explore ‘careers of the future’. There are resources for delivering classroom activities, and for running an in-school employers’ event (including resources for employers to use on the day).
While these resources make reference to their local area and context, they are adaptable for use in schools anywhere.
These resources provide the structure to deliver a whole school careers programme, allowing pupils to explore ‘careers of the future’. There are resources for delivering classroom activities, and for running an in-school employers’ event (including resources for employers to use on the day).
While these resources make reference to their local area and context, they are adaptable for use in schools anywhere
These resources provide the structure to deliver a whole school careers programme, allowing pupils to explore ‘careers of the future’. There are resources for delivering classroom activities, and for running an in-school employers’ event (including resources for employers to use on the day).
While these resources make reference to their local area and context, they are adaptable for use in schools anywhere.
Run a Stemillions club to introduce primary school students to new female STEM role models and show them how fun STEM is. Schools running the programme will receive a fully-funded box containing 10 Meal Plans each based around a different woman in STEM and a choice of activities related to her STEM career. Run as an extra curricula 30-minute activity, or incorporate the activities and role models into lesson plans with our teachers notes. You can register to receive a free box of 10 activities based around 10 female STEM role models. We will also provide the equipment needed to run these clubs, certificates and backpacks for each member. These boxes are worth £750 each.
Students must be aged 4-11 to be eligible for these clubs.
The transition toolkit is designed to support young people in making the transition from primary to secondary school. The toolkit also aims to: Help primary and secondary schools support their students through this period, Offer support for students on how they can begin to develop valuable skills for education and the future world of work, Provide guidance for parents on their child’s transition to secondary school and how they can best support.
