We think carefully about our futures, exploring how we can follow our interests and gain the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful in our next steps. How link our learning to future opportunities.

Reception 

For ‘Our Futures,’ Reception released butterflies into our Forest School. Butterfly populations are declining across the UK, and we wanted to help protect the future of our forest area by releasing fifteen butterflies into the environment. We loved watching the caterpillars turn into beautiful butterflies and we enjoyed spotting our butterflies when we went to Forest School the following week.

Year 1

Children in Year 1 were able to learn the skills needed for a career in aviation. This provided children with the opportunity to find out what the job of an astronaut is really like and to challenge gender stereotypes.

Year 3

Children researched a variety of careers to create a poster informing younger pupils on future possibilities they may aspire to achieve.

Year 4

This half term, Year 4 have focused on ‘Our Future’ and careers they might aspire to achieve. During PSHE lessons, they have learnt about different careers the children might not have considered such as explorers, inventors and nutritionists. With this knowledge in mind, they decided to have a debate on which jobs they aspired to have in our future, which they felt were the most important and discussed why. It was amazing to hear all the children’s thoughts and reasoning, and their Oracy skills shone through.

Year 6

For their Thrive work on ‘Our Future’, Year 6 children read and reflected on letters they had written to themselves on Changeover Day this year. It was amazing for children to read all about the goals they had set themselves (and achieved) and a chance for to reflect on the unforgettable memories they have had during their time in Year 6. The children then wrote another letter in response to their original one, outlining all their achievements this year and their next steps for the future. Amazing work!