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.

Gatsby Primary Enterprise Benchmarks & Framework

1. A stable careers programme (GB1)  - Every school and college should have an embedded programme of career education and guidance
2.  Learning from career and labour market information (GB2) - Every pupil, and their parents, should have access to good-quality information about future study options and labour market opportunities.
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil (GB3)  - Pupils have different career guidance needs at different stages. Opportunities for advice and support need to be tailored to the needs of each pupil. A school’s careers programme should embed equality and diversity considerations throughout.
4.  Linking curriculum learning to careers (GB4) - All teachers should link curriculum learning with careers. For example, STEM subject teachers should highlight the relevance of STEM subjects for a wide range of future career paths.
5. Encounters with employers and employees (GB5)  - Every pupil should have multiple opportunities to learn from employers about work, employment and the skills that are valued in the workplace. This can be through a range of enrichment activities including visiting speakers, mentoring and enterprise schemes.
6. Experiences of workplaces (GB6)  - Every pupil should have first-hand experiences* of the workplace through work visits, work shadowing and/or work experience to help their exploration of career opportunities and expand their networks.
7. Encounters with further and higher education (GB7) - All pupils should understand the full range of learning opportunities that are available to them. This includes both academic and vocational routes and learning in schools, colleges, universities and in the workplace.
8. Personal guidance (GB8) - Every pupil should have opportunities for guidance interviews with a career’s adviser, who could be internal (a member of school staff) or external, provided they are trained to an appropriate level.

Career of the Week 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdqnxyc#zqggvwx 

Meet Gemma, 19, and find out what she did to become a school administrator in Buckinghamshire. 

"I absolutely love working in a school environment. Every single day is different."

Careers at Coxhoe Primary School - What do the Gatsby Benchmarks look like?

1. A stable careers programme (GB1) - At Coxhoe Primary School this is set out in our PSHE/RSE curriculum and in our enrichment curriculum which shows how we enhance our Coxhoe Curriculum and raise aspirations through careers activities, visits, visitors and other experiences. This information is avalaible on our school website.
2. Learning from career and labour market information (GB2) - At Coxhoe Primary School this is set out in our PSHE/RSE curriculum and additional information is available on our school website (see career and labour market information links) and also in the careers section of the CPS monthly newsletter.
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil (GB3)  - At Coxhoe Primary School the curriculum is designed appropriately and reflects the equality and diversity of our school population and wider community population. Children are given opportunities to apply for, and undertake ambassadorial roles within school, for example Head Pupils, School Council; Year 6 Subject Amabassadors, Mini Police, Activators, Peer Mentors, Digital Leaders and ‘class jobs’. All of our children who are eligible for Pupil Premium and those with SEND meet with their teacher termly to complete a one page profile which is personal to each of them.
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers (GB4) - At Coxhoe Primary School all of our learning journeys across the curriculum have careers links which teachers discuss with the children. Across the year, subject leads are supported by their subject ambassadors to lead an assembly on the careers which are linked to their subject. Every year group has a book linked to careers and aspirations on their core book spine. All subject display boards around the school have careers linked to each particular subject.
5. Encounters with employers and employees (GB5)  - At Coxhoe Primary School this is set out in our enrichment curriculum which shows how we enhance our Coxhoe Curriculum and raise aspirations through careers activities, visits, visitors and other experiences. This information is available on our school website. Across the year, we invite employers and employees to hold assemblies in school to discuss their chosen careers. Each year we have a Careers Fair where employers and employees are invited into school to talk to the children about their careers. We also actively look for additional encounters with employers and employees for our children across the year.
6. Experiences of workplaces (GB6)  - At Coxhoe Primary School this is set out in our enrichment curriculum which shows how we enhance our Coxhoe Curriculum and raise aspirations through careers activities, visits, visitors and other experiences. This information is avalaible on our school website. We also actively look for additional experiences of workplaces for our children across the year.
7. Encounters with further and higher education (GB7) - At Coxhoe Primary School we have visits to feeder secondary schools and visitors from these also visit the children within our school setting. We also have strong links with a number of local universities and our children visit these or visitors from the universities come into school.
8. Personal guidance (GB8) - Each year we have a Careers Fair where employers and employees are invited into school to talk to the children about their careers. Our children are able to ask questions about all of the different careers and particularly those that are of interest to them.

Links to useful careers websites 

What is Labour Market Information (LMI) and why is it important?

Labour Market Information (LMI) tells you about the jobs that are available in the area that you live in.

It's useful to help you learn about future jobs in the local area (the north east), understand the skills you need for certain roles and the demand for future employment.

Careerometer can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations, help you learn about different occupations and identify potential careers.
It provides information about pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects for different occupations, as well as description of the occupation.
Simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you. You can then look up another two occupations and compare. You can also select ‘display the UK average’ and compare the information with the occupation you have selected.

https://www.lmiforall.org.uk/careerometer/ 

Take a look below at careers information for the North East...

2024 - 2025

Autumn Careers Survey Results...

Take a look at some of our career aspirations that we shared in our autumn careers survey...

Take a look at what our children told us when we asked the question 'Do you know what career you want to have when you are older?'...

Take a look at what our children told us when we asked the question 'What is your favourite subject?'...

Take a look at what our children told us when we asked the question 'How do you learn about careers in lessons'...

·      We talk about careers and read books about them

·      We talk about what skills different careers need

·      We learn by going to different career stalls at our careers fair while dressing up as our favourite career

·      Skills builder

·      English and PSHE

·      We have a careers fair and we read books about it

·      We learn about careers in books and activities

·      We made picture books and talked about different jobs with some younger children

·      We dressed up on careers day

·      We read books and write about them

·      In Art and English

·      Making posters

·      Tax facts sessions

·      In English I have been taught great things about great people in science and history

·      We do it in computing

·      We have skills builder

·      In English, we read a book about careers

·      The teachers tell us about the careers

·      We are shown what it’s like to have a job like that

·      We read books about other people’s careers and it is really fun to learn about other people!

·      People come and visit and tell us all about their career

·      We talk about it in French

·      We sometimes watch videos

·      In places we have visited

·      We have an iPad then and we search up different careers and then we see what they do

·      We learn about what jobs people want to have when they are older

·      We chat about the job that we want to be when we’re older

·      We have visitors for ensembles and career fairs and people come to class to talk about their careers with us

·      In PSHE we learn about stereotypes in certain jobs

·      We talk about it in assembly

·      We learn about speaking other languages like speaking French and Spanish

·      We learnt about Laurie Cunningham in Black History month about his football careers

·      We have watched videos about someone and created a fact-file about them.

·      On careers day I learned about the swat team

·      A lesson that my parents taught in school

·      In each subject we learn more about careers

·      We draw the careers we want to do

·      We learn about gender stereotypes in jobs

·      In forest school we learn about how to take care of animals so I know how to do that job.

·      We play games and read books.

·      In history we all learn about the Wright brothers who were pilots on the first flight.

·      That girls and boys can do any jobs

·      We talk about what everybody wants to be when they’re older and write about what you want to be when your older

·      In all the subjects we learn about careers

Take a look at what our children told us when we asked the question 'How could we improve your knowledge about careers?'...

·      Read more books and have more lessons about careers

·      Learn more about a variety of careers

·      You can’t because it’s already great :)

·      Nothing

·      More in lessons

·      Tell us a wider range and more jobs not just the well-known jobs

·      Do more lessons about careers or read books about it

·      By teaching us about more businesses

·      You have to do a job for the day with your friends

·      By doing a hunt to find the different careers

·      More careers days

·      Inviting in more careers people

·      Acting out different careers

·      When we go on school trips to places talk more about careers

·      You could talk about old jobs in history

·      By going into more detail on what they do

·      Showing us more rare jobs

·      More fun careers events

·      Mare variety of careers to learn about. Expand it as much as possible as everyone has different ways in life so they should know what is needed for their future

·      Keep doing lots of assemblies

·      I would improve it by speaking to a person with a very good career it will make my day and it will make me know more about good careers

·      Pretend to be them

·      We could do them in some subjects more often.

·      Learning about new careers and how any gender can be any career

·      Having people come in and talk about football

·      Learn how college works

·      Having people come in to talk about Scuba-diving

·      Learning about it more using videos online

·      By watching a vet help an animal

·      Lean more about stereotypes

·      I would like to know more about marine biology

·      Learn about business development

·      By making a careers challenge.

Year 5 learning all about the jobs on a farm on their visit to Broom House Farm

Lorraine from Believe Housing came to our school and we had an assembly about site safety

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 interesting 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 machine 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 Careers Assembly

Dreaming of being Designers!

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

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 Careers Assembly

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 geography 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 Careers Assembly

Musicians in the Making!

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

Languages Careers Assembly

Longing to be Linguists!

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

P.E. Careers Assembly

Aspiring to be Athletes!

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

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.

Gatsby Primary Enterprise Benchmarks & Framework

1. A stable careers programme (GB1)  - Every school and college should have an embedded programme of career education and guidance
2.  Learning from career and labour market information (GB2) - Every pupil, and their parents, should have access to good-quality information about future study options and labour market opportunities.
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil (GB3)  - Pupils have different career guidance needs at different stages. Opportunities for advice and support need to be tailored to the needs of each pupil. A school’s careers programme should embed equality and diversity considerations throughout.
4.  Linking curriculum learning to careers (GB4) - All teachers should link curriculum learning with careers. For example, STEM subject teachers should highlight the relevance of STEM subjects for a wide range of future career paths.
5. Encounters with employers and employees (GB5)  - Every pupil should have multiple opportunities to learn from employers about work, employment and the skills that are valued in the workplace. This can be through a range of enrichment activities including visiting speakers, mentoring and enterprise schemes.
6. Experiences of workplaces (GB6)  - Every pupil should have first-hand experiences* of the workplace through work visits, work shadowing and/or work experience to help their exploration of career opportunities and expand their networks.
7. Encounters with further and higher education (GB7) - All pupils should understand the full range of learning opportunities that are available to them. This includes both academic and vocational routes and learning in schools, colleges, universities and in the workplace.
8. Personal guidance (GB8) - Every pupil should have opportunities for guidance interviews with a career’s adviser, who could be internal (a member of school staff) or external, provided they are trained to an appropriate level.

Career of the Week 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdqnxyc#zqggvwx 

Meet Gemma, 19, and find out what she did to become a school administrator in Buckinghamshire. 

"I absolutely love working in a school environment. Every single day is different."

Careers at Coxhoe Primary School - What do the Gatsby Benchmarks look like?

1. A stable careers programme (GB1) - At Coxhoe Primary School this is set out in our PSHE/RSE curriculum and in our enrichment curriculum which shows how we enhance our Coxhoe Curriculum and raise aspirations through careers activities, visits, visitors and other experiences. This information is avalaible on our school website.
2. Learning from career and labour market information (GB2) - At Coxhoe Primary School this is set out in our PSHE/RSE curriculum and additional information is available on our school website (see career and labour market information links) and also in the careers section of the CPS monthly newsletter.
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil (GB3)  - At Coxhoe Primary School the curriculum is designed appropriately and reflects the equality and diversity of our school population and wider community population. Children are given opportunities to apply for, and undertake ambassadorial roles within school, for example Head Pupils, School Council; Year 6 Subject Amabassadors, Mini Police, Activators, Peer Mentors, Digital Leaders and ‘class jobs’. All of our children who are eligible for Pupil Premium and those with SEND meet with their teacher termly to complete a one page profile which is personal to each of them.
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers (GB4) - At Coxhoe Primary School all of our learning journeys across the curriculum have careers links which teachers discuss with the children. Across the year, subject leads are supported by their subject ambassadors to lead an assembly on the careers which are linked to their subject. Every year group has a book linked to careers and aspirations on their core book spine. All subject display boards around the school have careers linked to each particular subject.
5. Encounters with employers and employees (GB5)  - At Coxhoe Primary School this is set out in our enrichment curriculum which shows how we enhance our Coxhoe Curriculum and raise aspirations through careers activities, visits, visitors and other experiences. This information is available on our school website. Across the year, we invite employers and employees to hold assemblies in school to discuss their chosen careers. Each year we have a Careers Fair where employers and employees are invited into school to talk to the children about their careers. We also actively look for additional encounters with employers and employees for our children across the year.
6. Experiences of workplaces (GB6)  - At Coxhoe Primary School this is set out in our enrichment curriculum which shows how we enhance our Coxhoe Curriculum and raise aspirations through careers activities, visits, visitors and other experiences. This information is avalaible on our school website. We also actively look for additional experiences of workplaces for our children across the year.
7. Encounters with further and higher education (GB7) - At Coxhoe Primary School we have visits to feeder secondary schools and visitors from these also visit the children within our school setting. We also have strong links with a number of local universities and our children visit these or visitors from the universities come into school.
8. Personal guidance (GB8) - Each year we have a Careers Fair where employers and employees are invited into school to talk to the children about their careers. Our children are able to ask questions about all of the different careers and particularly those that are of interest to them.

Links to useful careers websites 

What is Labour Market Information (LMI) and why is it important?

Labour Market Information (LMI) tells you about the jobs that are available in the area that you live in.

It's useful to help you learn about future jobs in the local area (the north east), understand the skills you need for certain roles and the demand for future employment.

Careerometer can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations, help you learn about different occupations and identify potential careers.
It provides information about pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects for different occupations, as well as description of the occupation.
Simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you. You can then look up another two occupations and compare. You can also select ‘display the UK average’ and compare the information with the occupation you have selected.

https://www.lmiforall.org.uk/careerometer/ 

Take a look below at careers information for the North East...

2024 - 2025

Autumn Careers Survey Results...

Take a look at some of our career aspirations that we shared in our autumn careers survey...

Take a look at what our children told us when we asked the question 'Do you know what career you want to have when you are older?'...

Take a look at what our children told us when we asked the question 'What is your favourite subject?'...

Take a look at what our children told us when we asked the question 'How do you learn about careers in lessons'...

·      We talk about careers and read books about them

·      We talk about what skills different careers need

·      We learn by going to different career stalls at our careers fair while dressing up as our favourite career

·      Skills builder

·      English and PSHE

·      We have a careers fair and we read books about it

·      We learn about careers in books and activities

·      We made picture books and talked about different jobs with some younger children

·      We dressed up on careers day

·      We read books and write about them

·      In Art and English

·      Making posters

·      Tax facts sessions

·      In English I have been taught great things about great people in science and history

·      We do it in computing

·      We have skills builder

·      In English, we read a book about careers

·      The teachers tell us about the careers

·      We are shown what it’s like to have a job like that

·      We read books about other people’s careers and it is really fun to learn about other people!

·      People come and visit and tell us all about their career

·      We talk about it in French

·      We sometimes watch videos

·      In places we have visited

·      We have an iPad then and we search up different careers and then we see what they do

·      We learn about what jobs people want to have when they are older

·      We chat about the job that we want to be when we’re older

·      We have visitors for ensembles and career fairs and people come to class to talk about their careers with us

·      In PSHE we learn about stereotypes in certain jobs

·      We talk about it in assembly

·      We learn about speaking other languages like speaking French and Spanish

·      We learnt about Laurie Cunningham in Black History month about his football careers

·      We have watched videos about someone and created a fact-file about them.

·      On careers day I learned about the swat team

·      A lesson that my parents taught in school

·      In each subject we learn more about careers

·      We draw the careers we want to do

·      We learn about gender stereotypes in jobs

·      In forest school we learn about how to take care of animals so I know how to do that job.

·      We play games and read books.

·      In history we all learn about the Wright brothers who were pilots on the first flight.

·      That girls and boys can do any jobs

·      We talk about what everybody wants to be when they’re older and write about what you want to be when your older

·      In all the subjects we learn about careers

Take a look at what our children told us when we asked the question 'How could we improve your knowledge about careers?'...

·      Read more books and have more lessons about careers

·      Learn more about a variety of careers

·      You can’t because it’s already great :)

·      Nothing

·      More in lessons

·      Tell us a wider range and more jobs not just the well-known jobs

·      Do more lessons about careers or read books about it

·      By teaching us about more businesses

·      You have to do a job for the day with your friends

·      By doing a hunt to find the different careers

·      More careers days

·      Inviting in more careers people

·      Acting out different careers

·      When we go on school trips to places talk more about careers

·      You could talk about old jobs in history

·      By going into more detail on what they do

·      Showing us more rare jobs

·      More fun careers events

·      Mare variety of careers to learn about. Expand it as much as possible as everyone has different ways in life so they should know what is needed for their future

·      Keep doing lots of assemblies

·      I would improve it by speaking to a person with a very good career it will make my day and it will make me know more about good careers

·      Pretend to be them

·      We could do them in some subjects more often.

·      Learning about new careers and how any gender can be any career

·      Having people come in and talk about football

·      Learn how college works

·      Having people come in to talk about Scuba-diving

·      Learning about it more using videos online

·      By watching a vet help an animal

·      Lean more about stereotypes

·      I would like to know more about marine biology

·      Learn about business development

·      By making a careers challenge.

Year 5 learning all about the jobs on a farm on their visit to Broom House Farm

Lorraine from Believe Housing came to our school and we had an assembly about site safety

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 interesting 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 machine 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!

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History Careers Assembly

Hoping to be Historians!

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Design and Technology Careers Assembly

Dreaming of being Designers!

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English Careers Assembly

Excited to use our English skills!

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Art and Design Careers Assembly

Acting like Artists and Developing into Designers!

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Religious Education Careers Assembly

Thinking about being Theologists!

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Geography Careers Assembly

Our Journey to be Geographers

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Maths Careers Assembly

Made to be Mathematicians!

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Music Careers Assembly

Musicians in the Making!

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Languages Careers Assembly

Longing to be Linguists!

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P.E. Careers Assembly

Aspiring to be Athletes!

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