Teacher Pack – Key Stage 2

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Teacher Pack

Key Stage 2

Thank you for downloading The Big Class Challenge teacher pack for Key Stage 2.

Here you’ll find everything you need to deliver your lesson, including a plan and resources, as well as this link to a slide deck. The resources can be printed as individual worksheets, one per pupil, or as a booklet.

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Pre-reading and preparation

Everything is ready to go, but do spend some time having a read through so you are confident in how the content fits together. On slide 9, there is space for you to choose three of the jobs from worksheet 3 below to focus on with your class, and copy and paste the images onto the slide. Perhaps consider any visitors you have recently had, or are due to have (especially if you have a volunteer coming in to deliver a talk as part of the Big Class Challenge!), or any jobs pupils will have encountered in the curriculum – linking this lesson to other learning will help pupils relate to job roles more easily.

All the key information you need to guide your pupils through the lesson is included in the notes on the slide deck, and you don’t need to do any special preparation or research to be able to lead the lesson effectively. However, if you do want to gain a bit more of an understanding about the post-school pathways you’ll be exploring with your pupils, do have a look at Section 2 of our Post-School Success Toolkit.

We hope you enjoy the thinking and discussions this lesson will provoke in your pupils. We anticipate that it may bring up lots of questions from them that you may not necessarily be able to answer, but we have directed pupils to a number of websites on the final guidance sheets where they can find more information, and our Post-School Success Toolkit is a great place for you as a teacher to explore this work in more detail.

Join the Big Class Challenge community

If you deliver the lesson during the national Big Class Challenge weeks between 11-22 December, you and your pupils will be part of a movement including other schools up and down the country taking part in this activity at the same time. It may be that time just isn’t available during December, but if that’s the case, don’t worry; this lesson can be delivered at any time.

Share your experiences

We’d love to hear if you took part in the Big Class Challenge via Twitter. You can share your experience of getting involved by posting your own tweet and incorporating our Challenge the Impossible campaign hashtag #TFChallenge, or use our template tweet

‘I just took part in the Big Class Challenge with my class at [insert school name, using your Twitter handle if you have one] #TFChallenge’.

You might also like to attach a picture to your tweet.

Please encourage fellow teachers in your school and network to take part in the Big Class Challenge and deliver this lesson to their pupils! Teacher packs from EYFS to Key Stage 4 can be found on our Big Class Challenge website.

Finally, remember that to complement the lessons teachers are running, we are asking volunteers to deliver talks to pupils about their careers, and the journey they took from school to get there. Share our volunteer guidance pack with people you know working outside the classroom and encourage them to deliver a talk in your school.

Good luck, and have fun!

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Lesson Plan

Lesson overview This lesson will give pupils the opportunity to identify the types of jobs best suited to them on consideration of their own talents and passions, and equip them with some short-term strategies for furthering their understanding of subject areas, careers and pathways. The lesson also aims to dispel common myths around post-school pathways, and prompt pupils to consider longer-term goals.

Lesson objective To explore the pathways linked to your talents and passions, and how you can develop your knowledge of these options.

Success criteria • To identify some jobs you may be interested in based on your talents and passions.• To know some of the things you might do at university and on an apprenticeship.• To understand how you can gain pathway and career knowledge in and out of school.

Lesson outline and timings

Teacher Pupils

Do now (10 minutes)

Instructions on the board for when pupils arrive (slide 1).

After 5 minutes, run through lesson overview, objective and success criteria before taking some feedback on the do now questions (or allowing pupils to share their thoughts with a partner) (slides 2-5). Take pupil thoughts on the extension task, but don’t address any questions at this stage – explain that you will be coming back to their questions at the end of the lesson.

On arrival independently use worksheet 1 to answer the questions on their perception of university and apprenticeships. Extension activity: what questions do they have about university? What questions do they have about apprenticeships? Some will have the opportunity to feedback thoughts.

Beginning(15 minutes)

Ask pupils to think, pair, share what the difference between a ‘passion’ and a ‘talent’ is. Pupils who are able to establish definitions quickly could also consider what the connection is between passions and talents and job choices (slide 6). Cold call on some groups for feedback, before highlighting that the connection is that what we love doing – our passions, and what we are good at – our talents, should help us to choose our job, as we will spend a lot of time over our lives at work, and want to make sure we enjoy and are successful during that time.

Select a pupil to help you model the next task, by getting them to ask you the questions on the interview sheet and filling your answers in on the whiteboard (slide 7), before asking pupils to spend five minutes interviewing one another and writing down their answers (slide 8). They will need to swap worksheets as they will need a record of their own (rather than their partner’s) responses. They could simply fill this in independently if desired.

Explain that you are now going to explore how talents and passions might link to some types of jobs. Run through the three job roles you have chosen and populated on the slide (slide 9), and ask pupils to discuss and feedback what the talents and passions related to these jobs might be.

Think, pair, share what the difference between a ‘passion’ and a ‘talent’ is. Extension: what is the connection between passions and talents and job choices? – some will have the opportunity to feedback thoughts.

Swap worksheet 2 and ask a partner the interview questions, filling in their answers.

Discuss the talents and passions linked to the job roles on the slide. Some will have the opportunity to feedback thoughts.

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Lesson outline and timings

Teacher Pupils

CHECK (AfL) (5 minutes)

Direct pupils to worksheet 3, and ask them to examine the eight jobs (inclusive of the three from the previous task), and highlight any of the talents or passions related to them that match their own, using what they wrote on worksheet 2 as a reminder (slide 10).

Ask them to think, pair, share with a partner, identifying the three roles they would like to learn more about based on those that match their talents and passions most closely.

Independently use worksheet 3 to highlight any of the talents or passions related to the eight jobs that match their own, using what they wrote on worksheet 2 as a reminder

Think, pair, share with a partner the three roles that had talents and passions most closely linked to their own that they would like to research further.

Middle (10 minutes)

Explain that once we leave school we start to learn the specific things that prepare us to do these jobs, either at university, or in the workplace, often on an apprenticeship. Remind pupils of the basic definitions of ‘university’ and ‘apprenticeship’ at the bottom of worksheet 1, before splitting the room in two – one side the mind map all the things we might do at university, and one to mind map all the things we might do on an apprenticeship (slide 11). Nominate some pupils to feedback and generate two class mind-maps on the whiteboard.

Work in threes and use worksheet 4 to mind map the things they might do at university/on an apprenticeship – some will have the opportunity to feedback thoughts.

CHECK (AfL) (10 minutes)

Play videos 1 and 2 developed by King’s College London, on university. Ask pupils to make notes as they watch of any changes or additions the class need to make to their university mind map. Take some feedback. Add in any of your own reflections here on the university experience.

Play video 3 developed by Amazing Apprenticeships, on apprenticeships, and repeat the exercise.

To wrap up this section, ask pupils if any of the questions they had about university and apprenticeships at the start of the lesson have been answered? If so, which ones?

Watch videos 1, 2 and 3 and make notes on any changes or additions that need to be made to the class mind maps. Some will have the opportunity to feedback thoughts.

Reflect on whether questions on university and apprenticeships from the start of the lesson have been answered.

End (5 minutes)

Explain to pupils that considering options and the future beyond school is not something that can be tackled in one lesson and that you are going to give them worksheet 5 which suggests some things they might do at home to learn more about the topics in today’s lesson. At the bottom they should add any questions they still have about university and apprenticeships, which they could also investigate independently using the websites on the advice sheet.

N.B. If you would prefer not to use worksheet 5 for home learning, it could be used to influence other classroom-based activities in future as a follow up to this lesson.

Add any questions they have about university and apprenticeships to the bottom of worksheet 5.

CHECK (AfL) (5 minutes)

To wrap up, ask pupils to watch video 4 developed by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (slide 13). Ask them to think, pair, share what the message of the video is, before taking some feedback. Emphasise as your closing message that pupils can access any job they want to if they work hard towards the right qualifications through university or an apprenticeship – it doesn’t matter what their gender is, their family background, etc.

Revisit success criteria to finish (slide 14).

Optional: run through any follow up (see below) (slide 15).

Watch the video and reflect on its message – some will have the opportunity to feedback thoughts.

Follow Up Action plans to be stored according to school practice (e.g. glued into planners). Could be revisited at parents’ evening/review days as a supplement to discussions around academic progress.

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Worksheet 1

Will you go to university? Will you complete an apprenticeship?

Answer the questions below in as much detail as you can:

Do you think you will go to university? Why/why not?

Do you think you will complete an apprenticeship? Why/why not?

Extension:

What questions do you have about university?

What questions do you have about apprenticeships?

Glossary:University – an educational organisation where you can study for qualifications after sixth form, aged 18.Apprenticeship – gaining qualifications and experience while working in a job.

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Worksheet 2

My talents and passionsSwap this worksheet with your partner, and ask them the questions below,

filling in the answers:

1. What lessons or activities do you most look forward to at school?

2. What lessons or activities do you, your friends or your teachers think you are best at?

3. What do you like doing most outside of or after school?

4. What do you do at home or in your community that is really helpful for other people?

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Highlight or underline any of the jobs below that have talents and passions that match with yours:

Worksheet 3

Jobs, talents and passions

Mechanic• Constructing things• Maths• Drawing• Running• Helping with DIY

Builder• Science• Designing things• Maths• Helping with DIY• Constructing things• Working on my own

Lawyer• English• History• Debates• Speaking activities• Reading• Team sports

PE teacher• Science• PE• Working in a group• Being outside• Helping my brothers and sisters

with their homework

Nurse• Science• Helping look after brothers

or sisters• Maths• Group work• Team sports

Architect• Maths• Designing things• Art• Visiting museums • Looking at interesting buildings• Helping with DIY

IT specialist• Computers• Gaming• Working on my own• Designing things• Helping my parent or carer

use their phone

Pilot• Geography• Cycling• Going on holiday• Reading• Working on my own• Visiting museums

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Mindmap your ideas about what we might do at university or on an apprenticeship below:

Worksheet 4

What do we do at university and on an apprenticeship?

University Apprenticeship

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Worksheet 5

Your next steps

To develop your talents and passions outside of lessons…

• Get involved in after school and lunchtime clubs that link to your talents and passions – ask your teacher for help in working out which might be the best for you!

• Visit your school or local library and find the sections that link with your talents and passions – ask the librarian if you need help working out which books might help further your understanding.

• Find out more about your school council – are there any projects or initiatives they are working on that you could participate in that might further develop your skills?

To find out more about moving to secondary school…

• Visit www.teachfirst.org.uk/successtoolkit and jump to page 47 of the Post-School Success Toolkit for some useful questions to consider when choosing a secondary school. There are some tips for parents and carers here too!

To find out more about university and apprenticeships…

• Register with Gameplan at http://www.gameplan.ac.uk/register/, an interactive games platform developed by King’s College London, and explore the world of university.

• For a flavour of some of the industries and job roles you can access through an apprenticeship, have a read of this poster developed by Amazing Apprenticeships: http://amazingapprenticeships.com/wp-content/uploads/AA-Yr2-Poster-7.pdf

To find out more about careers…

• To find out more about jobs that link to the subjects you love, visit www.successatschool.org.uk.

• Talk to adults you know about the jobs they do – what do they like and dislike about them?

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