{"id":16864,"date":"2017-08-28T13:31:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T12:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/?p=16864"},"modified":"2017-08-28T13:31:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T12:31:42","slug":"maisondieu-primary-school-angus-opening-horizons-and-challenging-stereotypes-through-career-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2017\/08\/28\/maisondieu-primary-school-angus-opening-horizons-and-challenging-stereotypes-through-career-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Maisondieu Primary School (Angus): Opening horizons and challenging stereotypes through career education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/08\/PWP_0029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16869 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/08\/PWP_0029-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a>Rising to the challenge set by the Career Education Standard 3-18, <strong>Maisondieu Primary School <\/strong>has woven career education and advice into\u00a0their curriculum from early years to P7.\u00a0\u00a0 Working in partnership with parents and the wider community the school harnesses a range of resources and support to develop skills and career aspirations for the 21 century.\u00a0 A working group, led by a parent-teacher partnership and local community partners, helped to promote\u00a0the schools career education .\u00a0 Many activities including a \u2018World of Work Mobile Unit\u2019 and two whole school careers events were arranged. These enable\u00a0children and young people to actively engage with variety of employers to support learning and understand the skills required\u00a0for\u00a0\u00a0their future pathways.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of this approach is\u00a0 notable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pupils are able to connect\u00a0their learning with the world of work;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Selected representatives from local employers help challenge stereotypes and provide a more realistic picture of jobs and careers available for young people and the skills required to access these.<\/li>\n<li>It also strengthened partnership links with stakeholders in the community.<\/li>\n<li>It allowed pupils and staff to reflect upon the entitlements and expectations set out within the Career Education Standard 3-18<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/08\/Careers-Standard-Girl-P1.doc\">Careers Standard Girl P1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/08\/Careers-Standard-Boy-p7.doc\">Careers Standard Boy p7<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/08\/Career-workshop-evaluation.doc\">Career workshop evaluation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/08\/\u2018Oor-Careers\u2019-Record-Sheet.docx\">\u2018Oor Careers\u2019 Record Sheet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out more about this initiative\u00a0 by joining\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/category\/skills\/\">SLF seminar <\/a>of <strong>Ruth Mcfarlane, teacher at Maisondieu Primary School:\u00a0 Wednesday,\u00a020 September, 9.30 (Boisedale 2)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising to the challenge set by the Career Education Standard 3-18, Maisondieu Primary School has woven career education and advice into\u00a0their curriculum from early years to P7.\u00a0\u00a0 Working in partnership with parents and the wider community the school harnesses a range of resources and support to develop skills and career aspirations for the 21 century.\u00a0 A working group, led by a parent-teacher partnership and local community partners, helped to promote\u00a0the<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2017\/08\/28\/maisondieu-primary-school-angus-opening-horizons-and-challenging-stereotypes-through-career-education\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,98,39],"tags":[57,228,201,52,197],"class_list":["post-16864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-learning-and-childcare","category-primary","category-skills","tag-career-education-standard","tag-primary","tag-school-employer-partnerships","tag-skills-for-learning-life-and-work","tag-slf-2017"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18561,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864\/revisions\/18561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}