Aspirations Week is inspired by the annual celebration of National Careers Week, which is held in March.  Besides being a fun week, where our children could explore their aspirations and dreams, it was also an important week to promote the idea of having a good career. It’s believed that promoting a good career will help pupils understand the link between subjects, their skills, and the opportunities that can arise from that. Meaning that Aspirations Week was more about  showing our children the possibilities and helping them keep motivated towards their goal. If we can encourage children to develop these skills in their early life, then they will be in an advantaged position as they transition into secondary education and further within their education.

Our aims for our Aspirations Week were to:

Excite our pupils about their learning and how it will help them in the future.

Help our pupils create goals and aspirations.

Broaden our children’s imagination and dreams.

Motivate them with their learning.

Challenge stereotypes of different job roles and backgrounds.

Reinforce the importance of education

All children across the school took part in a variety of workshops and activities throughout the week which included visits from the Fire and Rescue Service, the Police Force, an author and illustrator, scientists - including a forensic science workshop, a florist, an ex-professional footballer, a visit to Take Over Radio Station, visits to ASDA and many more exciting things were also planned.

At Priestsic we have created an exciting and interesting curriculum based around four main curriculum drivers with one being Health and Well-being. We want our children to appreciate the importance of leading healthy lives, understanding how to take care of their physical and mental well-being. In order to enthuse our children about physical activity all year groups have taken part in a Sports Enrichment Afternoon/Morning run by Next Level Sports. The children took part in 3 sessions: clubercise, boot camp and laser tag and they all really enjoyed themselves.