Start Small Dream Big: Primary Careers Project

Online workshop: Teaching career-related learning through PSHE for Start Small Dream Big Schools

Want to know the best ways to approach career-related learning through PSHE? This workshop will explore:

• The importance of career-related learning, informed by key research

• Teaching about career stereotypes and how to support pupils to challenge them

• How to ensure safe and effective practice

• A whole-school approach to career-related learning

• How to make use of assessment including tips and strategies

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Workshop includes:

• 1 hour of high quality, interactive training led by a member of our Subject Specialist team, the leading national experts in PSHE education

• Practical ideas and guidance to support you to effectively deliver career-related learning through PSHE

Dates and times (contact sarah.ableman@cornwall.gov.uk for a registration link):

Wednesday 5th June @ 2pm – 3pm

Thursday 6th June @ 3.45pm – 4.45pm

Wednesday 12th June @ 2pm – 3pm

Thursday 13th June @ 3.45pm – 4.45pm

Monday 17th June @ 2pm – 3pm

We recently met with Caroline Davey from the Cornwall Heritage Trust. She is running free workshops at Cornish Heritage Sites for primary school pupils that you may be interested in exploring as they may be useful in addressing some of your wider ‘careers’ skills foci (e.g., teamwork, resilience, problem solving). Please see flyer for details. For more information or to book, please contact Caroline Davey, Education and Outreach Manager, on 01209 707008 or by email caroline@cornwallheritagetrust.org. Caroline's team are also able to deliver outreach workshops in schools for a small fee (£2 per student). Workshops include:

Historic Landscape Art Taking inspiration from Cornwall’s unique landscape and heritage, create your own artistic masterpiece. Prehistoric Jewellery Making Taking inspiration from examples of Bronze Age and Iron Age jewellery create your own hoard.

Medieval Marvels Taking inspiration from the Medieval Bestiary and combining Cornish folklore, learn the art of book binding and produce your own bestiary full of Cornish marvels.

Plagues and Potions Investigate ideas about causes of the Black Death and Plague and discover cures offered by practitioners of medicine in the past. Create your own herbal remedy or potion, and set up your own Tudor Apothecary.

Minerals and Mining Cornwall Rocks! Explore Cornwall’s geology. Discover surprising facts, such as how many Cornish minerals there are in a mobile phone and create your own mining landscape diorama.

Teach First have put together a guide for Lead Teachers who are keen to make progress on the programme but are currently feeling behind with online learning content. Module by module, it will guide you through priority learning and activities so that you can still make progress and complete the programme. Please find the Catch up Guides for Wave 1 and 2 under Useful Resources in the CPD Support File. Please also feel free to contact Sarah at the Careers Hub (sarah.ableman@cornwall.gov.uk) to fast-track through a specific module/module task together.

After a wonderful Community of Practice meet in November, we have a date for our next event in which we'll bring together both of our project 'waves'. It will take place on Wednesday 28th February, at the Venton Conference Centre from 09.30-14.30. We have two guest speakers booked in to talk about the Space and Data Sector and Parental Engagement. The Eventbrite registration link and further information will be sent out in the fortnightly newsletter in the week commencing 8th January

It has been a real pleasure to work with our network of project schools this year and we are looking forward to seeing you all in 2024. We would like to extend our very best wishes to you and your loved ones at Christmas.

Do you know about the Farm & Country Days? An annual event held in March at the Royal Cornwall Events Centre specifically aimed at Cornish primary schools and Years 3 & 4. Children enjoy a hands-on, interactive learning journey to see how their food travels from field to plate. More than 50 exhibits illustrate each aspect of the local farming and food production industry, and more than 200 volunteers kindly give up their time to make this event happen. If you’d like to book a place, please fill out the registration form in the Farm and Country File (under Useful resources) and send to education@royalcornwall.co.uk and find out more here. You could alternatively register your interest in the Farm and Country Roadshow, in which the wonderful Education Officer, Jo Perry, will bring her educational trailer to your school, engage with children of all ages and even add in a little talk around careers in agriculture. Please also find the form for this option in the Farm and Country File and return to the same email address.

Skills Builder Partnership is a world group of businesses, schools, and non-profits that work together to make sure that one day, everyone has the skills they need to be successful. Essential skills help people learn in school, do better in school, earn more money, and be happier in life. The Universal Framework, which breaks eight highly transferable skills into a series of steps, is at the heart of the method. It starts at the very beginning and goes all the way up to mastery, putting logic behind soft skills. They have 200 funded places for schools (of all phases) on the Accelerator programme for September 2024 - a great way to continue the Careers work you have been doing with Start Small, Dream Big. You need to sign up early; the first batch of applications opens on 19th February 2024. If you register your interest here - The Skills Builder Accelerator - you will be given an 'early bird' opportunity to apply a week before the application is open to all.

We are going to launch a Community of Practice around primary Careers-Related Learning and our first meet will be at the Venton Conference Centre, St Austell on the 15th November. We would like to invite our Start Small; Dream Big project lead teachers to attend and will treat you to refreshments and lunch. Click here to book your place

9.30-10.00 Arrivals and Tea/Coffee

10.00-11.00 Welcome and Session 1: Vision, Strategy and Priority

11.00 -11.30 Becky Patel from TechSheCan

11.30 -11.50 Tea/Coffee Break

11.50 - 12.50 Session 2: Using the CDI Primary Framework

12.50 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 -14.00 Olaf Marshall-Whitley - Employer Insight on Green Careers

14.00-14.30 Carrie Childs on LMI & Reflections and suggestions for next CoP

(14.30 - 17.00 - Room stays open and available for any teachers wishing to co-work)

Primary Futures Offer for Start Small; Dream Big

We have an exciting opportunity for schools in the Start Small; Dream Big Project to work with Primary Futures who will support you to design and deliver your employer encounter.

Primary Futures will offer intensive, individualised support in delivering your employer encounter, take the stress out of the admin, make sure it fits your cohort and aims and give you the confidence and tools needed to implement your careers strategy this academic year and beyond.

This offer is available for 10 further schools on our project (first come first serve) Book before October half term begins for a 30-minute planning call with Rebecca Lawrence (at least 4-6 weeks before intending to host your careers activity). During this meeting, Primary Futures will confirm what your priority project will be (focus, target year group/s, format, timing, and desired outcomes) and co-create the activity with you’.

Welcome back to the new term! Before the workload gets too busy, can we draw your attention to the helpful documents in the Employer Engagement Folder under 'Useful Resources' - intended to support your Priority Project (see Module 2 of your training). There are two editable 'off the peg' surveys to help you grow your employer networks, guidance around approaching employers and sustaining their support, guidance around engaging employers impactfully and an editable form to reach out for Careers Hub support.