Coxhoe Primary School

Careers - Our Vision

We aim to ensure that our children believe that they can achieve ambitious goals in order to be a success in any career they wish to follow

We know that even at the young age of three or four, children are already starting to form their first aspirations. By six they are starting to have opinions on what they think they can or can’t do in the future. By the time they’re 10, young people start to make decisions which could go on to limit their future options. 

At Coxhoe Primary School, we believe that all children have the potential to flourish, reach their full potential and be whatever they aspire to be in life. Our key curriculum drivers underpin this belief:

• Our curriculum is driven by challenging stereotypes and building cultural capital where our children have the knowledge and experiences to be successful and make choices without limits.
• Our curriculum promotes the importance of being aspirational where our children believe that they can achieve ambitious goals in order to have a successful career.

What does this look like in our school?

• Making meaningful links to the world of work within curriculum lessons
• Providing children with opportunities to learn from real world contexts, interact with employers and experience workplaces
• Enabling children to make links between what they are learning in the classroom and the practical application of that knowledge (and skills)
• Ensuring that children begin to understand the skills required in the workplace and have opportunities to develop these
• Helping children understand the opportunities available to them in the local and regional labour market, and variety of pathways into these roles, including through further and higher education.

Career of the Week 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhr9dp3

Meet Sydney and find out about her role working for His Majesty's Coastguard.

"Here at the Coastguard we do training before we qualify...you learn on the job so it doesn't matter if you're not from a maritime background"

Links to useful careers websites 

2023 - 2024

Careers Fair June 2024

We would like to say a massive thank you to our amazing volunteers this year!

• Maritime and engineering - Emma and Sarah
• Accountant Fresh Business Solutions - Lucy, Finley, Amy and Ashley 
• Teesside University- Dipal
• Northumbria Police CSI - Nicola
• NHS Nursing - Ellen
• Holistic Therapy - Amy
• NHS Careers - Nikki, Joanne, Courtney, Cameron, Joanne, Sophie and Bethany
• Nike - Jason
• Sunderland Empire Theatre - Lucy
• HMRC - Rachel and James
• Durham University - Vanessa and Anne-Marie

Feedback from our volunteers:

• We absolutely love attending these events - thank you for having us again. 

• I was very impressed with how engaged the children were with the event and in our games. The children especially impressed me with their maths skills and willingness to have a try at some of our trickier questions involving percentages. The school has such a welcoming feel to it, I look forward to next year.

• The students were all well engaged, very friendly and polite throughout all interactions across our stalls. All of the staff who attended have said how much they enjoyed talking to the students and answering some great questions they were asked. Thank you to all staff involved who also made us feel very welcome. We would love to be part of future activities with the school to continue to help inspire our future generations. 

• I was really impressed by how polite and kind the pupils were. They engaged extremely well with the activity I brought along and asked lots of questions. I would love to come to the school again in the future to do more activities or events – thank you for having me! 

• It is impressive to see so many young children are enthusiastic for finding out about various career, their questions were very interesting.  

Our whole school text theme in spring term is careers. In Reception and Year 1 the children are reading What Will I Be? by Frances Stickley and Lucy Fleming. In Years 2-6, they are reading What Jobs Could You Do? by Catherine Barr and Ana Gomez. Watch this space for some of our children's fabulous work!

Careers Fair June 2024

Pupil Voice

What our children thought of our careers fair this year:

It was...AMAZING!!! I had so much fun. That adults that came were extremely polite and I really enjoyed it (Isla)

We asked lots of questions about careers and I enjoyed dressing the mannequin at the Nike stall (Lewis)

It was really interseting and a fun way to learn (Grace)

I liked all of the experiments and the interseting facts. It was very fun and exciting and we even got to take home bags with items (Adam)

We asked questions about people's diffferent careers. It was really fun and I liked playing games to win prizes (Brandon)

It was amazing. We learnt about blood cells and spun a maching to sort them in order (Tianna)

My favourite stall was maritime and shipping (Luke)

My favourite stall was Nike (Ted)

I liked that we got to try different equipment from jobs. My favourite was the NHS stall (Beatrice)

2022 - 2023

In summer term, Sunderland Empire Theatre came into school to talk to KS2 about careers in the theatre.

Donna from the NHS Emotional Resilience Team came to talk to us in assembly about her career and how she helps children and young people.

Our Very First Careers Fair

This half term we had our very first Coxhoe Primary School Careers Fair. Ten volunteers from different sectors/companies chatted to our children throughout the afternoon of Friday 9^th June about the companies that they work for and their careers. The children asked lots of thoughtful questions, as always, and were inspired by the people who they spoke to. All children across the school dressed up as the career they want to be as they get older.

Our children in Year 2 and Year 5 took part in a Flat Stan first aid workshop with Garry. This workshop taught our children vital and essential first aid life skills. 

Year 1 had great fun being musicians during their 'Little Fingers' sessions with Durham Music Service!

Career links within Curriculum Subjects

Computing Careers Assembly

Creating Computational Thinkers!

Head over to our computing page to see what else we have been up to

History Careers Assembly

Hoping to be Historians!

Head over to our history page to see what else we have been up to

Design and Technology

Design and Technology - Challenging gender stereotypes in STEM careers

Dreaming of being Designers!

English Careers Assembly

Excited to use our English skills!

Head over to our English page to see what else we have been up to

Art and Design

Acting like Artists and Developing into Designers!

Head over to our art and design page to see what else we have been up to

Religious Education Careers Assembly

Thinking about being Theologists!

Head over to our RE page to see what else we have been up to

Geography Careers Assembly

Our Journey to be Geographers

Head over to our computing page to see what else we have been up to

Maths Careers Assembly

Made to be Mathematicians!

Head over to our maths page to see what else we have been up to

Music

Musicians in the Making!

Languages Careers Assembly

Longing to be Linguists!

Head over to our languages page to see what else we have been up to

P.E.

Aspiring to be Athletes!

Head over to our PE page to see what else we have been up to