Future Aspirations Week 2025

What an amazing week our first Future Aspirations Week was! We had 40 different people come into school and all did at least two talks to different groups of children. So we had one 80 talks in school during that week! 

Day One 

We had a retail shop manager, a vet nurse, a gym owner, a fitness instructor, a solider and a member of the prison service.

Day Two

An accountant, a web designer, a falconer, a farm worker, an army chef, an engineer who works at Amazon, someone who owns and runs their own company in the car industry, someone who works in marketing, someone who works in finance in the care industry. 

Day Three

A construction project manager, a building project manager, an apprentice site manager, a pilot, a counsellor

Day Four

Two police officers, an insurance broker, a doctor, a senior regional manager of Mcdonald's, a sports therapist, the England Football team physio, a nurse, a tattoo artist

Day Five

A local councillor, a radiographer, a scientist, a teacher, a managing director (ex Navy), a local businessman and town councillor, Social care worker, a civil engineer, an architect , a shopping centre manager, an entrepreneur

Some of the things the children have said about our amazing week! 

I want to be a police officer so I can wear one of the jackets and a helmet like Rob had when he spoke to us - Reception child

I want to be a radiographer like my mom, I want to help people and make them better - Reception child

I want to be a builder so I can build houses and use a robot dog like Mr Holmes did. I can build houses for people who don't have one. - Reception child

I want to be a vet because I like looking after animals and helping them get better - Reception child 

I want to take people's x-rays because I want to help people - Yr 1 

I liked all the talks because they were interesting and I found out lots of new things  - Yr 1

I want to be a builder and build houses. I like building with Lego now so it would be a good job for me - Yr 1

I want to be a pilot and fly big planes - Yr 1

The talks were interesting . I found out about jobs I didn't know were jobs! - Yr 1

I want to work in a posh shop like Kayleigh, so I can look at the fabulous handbags! - Yr 1

I want  to be a police officer because I want to tie up the bad people and carry them like a sausage! - Yr 1

I 'd love to be a gymnastic coach because I do gymnastics and I want to teach other people to do it too - Yr 1

I want a job like the football physio because I love football! - Yr 1 

We can talk about jobs now, that we didn't knew about before! Yr 4 

All these people with amazing jobs have come in to see us in their own time to help us decide what we want to do when we are older  -Yr 3 

People came in and talked about their jobs. Some jobs are what we might want to do in the future - Yr 3

I want to have my own great idea like Steve and not be frightened to take a chance - Yr 4

I liked seeing the things people brought in from their jobs! - Yr4

I've changed my mind every day about what I want to do, but that's a good thing as its made me think - Yr 4

 

Staff comments

It's been an amazing week! I wasn't sure how this week was going to go, but everyone that has been in has been so interesting and wonderful with the children.

Throughout the week the children have learnt so much about a really wide range of jobs and jobs that I didn't even knew existed! 

The children have been wonderful, so receptive to all the speakers. Their listening has been fabulous and they have really shown their TORCH values to all

The children's confidence in asking relevant questions has also really improved throughout the week

The children's oracy skills have shone through this week in a really practical way this week. They have wanted to ask questions because they have been interested in what the speaker has been saying. 

At the start of the week we asked the children what they thought they might want to be in the future. The best answer was " I have an idea, but hopefully that will have changed by the end of this week, as I hope to be inspired!" A great answer from one of our Year 6 children. And when we asked at the end of the week, they said they have been made to think about what they thought was important.

The speakers not only spoke about their jobs but also related it to what the children are doing in school, by saying if you like maths then finance it a great thing to do. The members of the Army who came in spoke about the opportunities that is open to them - not just being a solider but having a sports career, or being a musician or a chef! It's been great! 

What an amazing experience for all our children and staff. 

Future Aspirations Week 2025