Primary CRL Programme Policy (22-23)
Co-op Academy Delius CRL Programme & Policy
2022-23
Approved by: Matt Round Date: 23/10/22 | Last reviewed on: | Next review due by: |
Careers Leader :
1.0 Rationale and Vision
The Co-op Trust is committed to ensuring all of our students have access to high quality Career related learning (CRL) opportunities throughout each stage of their development. Our CRL programmes will inspire, raise aspirations and give our students an optimistic outlook on life.
At Co-op Academy Delius the vision for the development of CRL is to provide the very best opportunities to enable our pupils to broaden their knowledge about life skills and careers, have an awareness of the wider community and to appropriately raise aspirations. We want our children to experience the link and purpose between their learning experiences and their future. Our programme promotes equality of opportunity, gives exposure to the world of work, celebrates diversity and highlights the importance of skills for life.
1.1 We are always guided by our Coop values:
Do what matters most
What matters most is ensuring that our students achieve the best possible outcomes.
Be yourself, always
We bring our best self to work, so that we each contribute a bit of our own unique Co-op difference, and respect others for doing the same.
Show you care
We care about our Co-op, our colleagues, our members, our students, their parents and communities, now and for the future.
Succeed together
Co-operating is what makes us different; we’re better and stronger when we work together.
2.0 Intent
Our CRL program is both bespoke and unique to our academy and is reviewed on an annual basis to meet our children's needs based on our monitoring and evaluation processes. We are committed to providing a coherently planned and sequenced programme that reflects our academy’s context and core values. Our programme is designed to entitle all learners to develop their knowledge, skills, understanding and cultural capital they need to access the next stage of their life. With this in mind we aim:-
- To support progress for all children, especially by increasing pupil engagement in the curriculum and the wider community
- To reinforce the importance of numeracy and literacy in later life
- To support inclusion, challenge stereotyping and promote equality of opportunity
- To excite and motivate children about their curriculum learning by ensuring there are strong links between their learning and the next stage in their life.
- To develop enterprise and essential life skills
- To help children to learn about, and develop, their skills and qualities to instil greater self confidence
- To tailor CRL learning / events to meet the needs of all our children through appropriate differentiation
- To involve parents and carers whenever appropriate
- To use all feedback to reflect on our current provision in order to develop our future CRL program
- To provide additional support to specific vulnerable groups
- To monitor and evaluate current provision in order to ensure our program is quality assured in line with other curriculum areas
- To share best practice with other Co-op academies at network events to ensure reflection and development of own program
- To ensure each key stage get a least 1 employer encounter
- To achieve / work towards a Quality in Careers award in recognition of all that our academy offers
2.1 Learner entitlement
All learners are entitled to consistent delivery of appropriate, pathway specific CRL to ensure they understand who they could become and develop a healthy sense of self to enable them to reach their full potential. This will include real life experiences of the workplace physically in KS2 and a more focussed opportunity in the Astronauts Pathway.
2.2 Planning & curriculum
Planning for CRL is included in the long term PSED/PSHE planning and during the Stunning Starts which introduce each new topic to our Key Stages 3x per year. Teachers are encouraged to explore links to careers through the core and non-core curriculum when possible both implicitly and explicitly. It is recognised that opportunities are often spontaneous, following the children’s learning, experiences and ideas..
2.3 Approaches to teaching and learning
The curriculum is approached in a variety of ways, using a range of teaching and learning styles. Visits, and visitors, will also form part of our CRL curriculum. Through the curriculum we will aim to give pupils appropriate real life, authentic experience of the workplace.
2.4 Visitors and visits
It is recognised that visits and visitors will form part of CRL. Our CRL leader will actively seek relevant and meaningful encounters from a wide range of sectors and providers. Please also see the Trust Health and Safety Policy regarding risk assessment for visits and our Safeguarding Policy for visitors on site.
2.5 Assembly programme
The assembly programme for CRL is devised by our CRL lead and will support teaching in class through a range of different approaches. Our CRL lead will work collaboratively with Pathway Leads to include CRL opportunities within the assemblies annual plan at an appropriate cognitive level.
2.6 Parental Engagement
Parental engagement in CRL is based around raising parents’ awareness of the nature of their supportive role in their child’s future. Engaging parents is a key driver when delivering career development activities and CRL should raise aspirations for the parents as well as the children. We will also look for family contributions to enhance our CRL programme through the curriculum.
3.0 Implementation
Our programme is taught via bespoke activities and events, subject curriculum and extracurricular activities, and a wide range of enrichment activities.
CRL is delivered by a range of providers such as teachers and support staff, visiting speakers, employers and employees. This delivery includes bespoke workshops, assemblies, project / challenge / enterprise days and via subject curriculum. Our staff receive regular CPD to support them in embedding essential skills into their subject areas. Our parents can access our academy's website which provides clear links to a range of CRL related events and information about local market information (LMI) . The CRL events / activities outlined below are all planned to take place over the year in addition to CRL in the curriculum.
Pathway | Autumn Term | Spring Term | Summer Term |
Rockets (EYFS) | What can you buy at the shops? - visit different shops and workplaces | Job Fair | |
Galaxies | KS1 Who can help us when ____? Visit from Police, fire service, ambulance and nurses - stunning start | KS1 - Cooking - Chefs and Cooks - lifeskills and visiting the school kitchen KS2 - The Restaurant - visiting restaurants and roles within the restaurant | Job Fair |
Meteors | KS1 Who can help us when ____? Visit from Police, fire service, ambulance and nurses - stunning start | KS1 - Cooking - Chefs and Cooks - lifeskills and visiting the school kitchen KS2 - The Restaurant - visiting restaurants and roles within the restaurant | Job Fair |
Comets | KS1 Who can help us when ____? Visit from Police, fire service, ambulance and nurses - stunning start | KS1 - Cooking - Chefs and Cooks - lifeskills and visiting the school kitchen KS2 - The Restaurant - visiting restaurants and roles within the restaurant | Job Fair |
Astronauts | KS2 - The Restaurant - visiting restaurants and roles within the restaurant | Job Fair KS2 - Visit to Workplace |
Possible events
- Different profession assemblies
- Stunning Start - visits from professions
- Jobs fair
- Challenge / enrichment days / week
- Workplace visits (Astronauts)
- Curriculum links to professions
- Curriculum mapping
Staff
- Annual update on LMI
- Directed time to develop CRL in the curriculum
- PSED/PSHE curriculum review
- External CRL CPD
4.0 Impact
Measuring the impact of our CRL programme supports us to develop it on a termly / annual basis and to know that we are making a positive and empowering difference. We value quantitative and qualitative feedback from all stakeholders and ensure our evaluations lead to change / amendments in our future planning. We undertake internal and external quality assurance to ensure our intent and implementation is in-line with our expectations. Our CRL program aims to demonstrate the following impact:
- Increased understanding of professions in the community for some learners
- Feedback and evaluation for all events, both quantitative and qualitative
- Increase in progress over time
- Progress and achievement data over time with reference to vulnerable groups
- Development of practical life skills and increased independence in key skills.
5.0 Useful websites
5.1 For staff
https://www.firstcareers.co.uk/
Offers guidance to primary and secondary school students in making decisions about future careers and professions).
https://primary-careers.careersandenterprise.co.uk/
Special section dedicated to primary resources / best practice
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/pshe-ks1-ks2-what-is-my-job/zrdkt39
PSHE KS1 / KS2: What's my job?
EYFS Activities: Essential experiences… Learning about jobs
https://primaryfutures.org/career-related-primary/
Resources for primary staff to deliver engaging career-related learning for their pupils, with tools, information and resources available including a self-assessment quiz for schools and examples of innovative practice
https://www.skillsbuilder.org/homelearning
Everyone needs eight essential skills to succeed - whatever their path in life. Skills builder provides a range of resources for building these skills in a home setting - all underpinned by the Skills Builder Framework. Resources are available for learners aged 4 to 20+.
5.2 Research
https://www.educationandemployers.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/DrawingTheFuture.pdf
Exploring the career aspirations of primary school children from around the world
What works? Career-related learning in primary schools
https://www.thecdi.net/New-Career-Development-Framework
Framework for implementing CRL
5.3 Careers Games
https://panjango.com/pages/panjango-online (KS2)
https://icould.com/buzz-quiz/ (KS2)
Which Animal Are You? In under five minutes, discover: your strengths and what makes you tick / what you're like as a boyfriend or girlfriend / which celebrities share your personality type. There are 16 possible results, each connected to an animal
5.5 Parents
https://targetcareers.co.uk/parents-and-teachers
https://careerready.org.uk/parents
https://www.careeralchemy.co.uk/choosing-career-paths.html