Did you know that by the age of five and six, children begin to form career-limiting perceptions based on factors such as their gender and background?
Career related learning in a primary setting is about exploring how to help children to broaden their horizons and develop their skills and to enable them, and their families, to understand the future opportunities that are available and how they can reach their potential. Through its Primary Network, the North East Combined Authority is supporting primary schools in our region to create meaningful careers related learning that will raise aspirations, challenge stereotypes and help children connect the classroom to the world around them. This offer is entirely free to all schools in the North East.
By joining the Primary Network your school will benefit from one-to-one support to undertake a careers education self-assessment audit and to develop a careers action plan.
In addition to individual support, schools also have access to:
- Regular network meetings (both local and regional) to help develop effective communities of practice
- CPD and training opportunities
- Access to the North East Ambition website, containing resources, case studies and links to careers-related learning providers.
To join the Primary Network, email: goodcareers@northeast-ca.gov.uk
This work builds on the success of the Career Benchmarks: Primary Pilot in 2019, a nationally recognised pilot, that supported 70 primary schools to use an adapted set of Good Career Guidance Benchmarks to deliver high quality careers related learning to their pupils. To find out more about the findings of the pilot, click here.
