An inspiring career readiness workshop that broadens horizons, challenges stereotypes, and helps every student see a future full of possibilities — through career exploration, skills discovery, and goal-setting challenges.
This workshop is part of our Careers Workshops hub — see the full primary careers education landing page.
Duration
35–40 mins
Class Size
Up to 32
Suitable For
EYFS – Year 6
What's Included
Everything
About This Workshop
Open your students' eyes to the futures they could have
The Plan Their Future workshop tackles one of the biggest challenges in primary education — aspiration. Too many children can only imagine careers they've personally seen. This workshop expands their world, introducing careers they've never heard of, challenging gender and social stereotypes, and showing them the connection between what they're learning now and where it could take them.
Every session is adapted to your year group. Reception and Year 1 explore 'when I grow up' through stories, role-play, and dressing up. Year 2 and 3 discover a wide range of careers through matching games and 'day in the life' activities. Year 4 and 5 map their own strengths to career pathways and create future plans. Year 6 set goals, understand educational pathways, and write letters to their future selves.
Directly supports the 2028 Core Enrichment Entitlement — ensuring every pupil experiences careers and aspirations as part of their primary education.
2028 Curriculum Change
The Core Enrichment Entitlement from September 2028 requires every primary pupil to experience careers and aspirations activities. Schools embedding career readiness now are ahead of the statutory requirements and building genuine aspiration in their students.
Future Skills Passport
Part of the Skills Passport
This workshop maps directly to the Plan Their Future skill in the Future Skills Passport programme. Book it as a standalone wow-factor day, or as part of your school's journey towards Bronze, Silver, or Gold accreditation.
Discover
EYFS & Year 1
Explore
Year 2 & 3
Apply
Year 4 & 5
Lead
Year 6
What Students Do
Six hands-on activities, adapted by age
Every activity is designed to build a different aspect of this skill. Your facilitator selects and adapts activities based on the year group.
1
Dream Big
An opening activity that expands horizons — students discover surprising careers they've never heard of, challenging the idea that there are only a few paths available. Interactive career cards and videos bring roles to life.
All year groups
2
Career Explorer
Teams investigate different careers through stations — learning what people actually do in their jobs, what skills they need, and how they got there. Busts stereotypes about who does what.
All year groups
3
Skills Audit
Students identify their own strengths, interests, and qualities — discovering that the things they're already good at connect to real career pathways they might not have considered.
Year 2+
4
Pathway Planner
Students map the journey from where they are now to where they want to go — understanding that secondary school, college, university, and apprenticeships are all valid routes.
Year 4+
5
Role Model Research
Teams research inspirational people from diverse backgrounds who've succeeded in different fields — learning that career success comes in many forms and from many starting points.
Year 3+
6
Future Me Letter
Year 6 students write a letter to their future self — capturing their goals, fears, strengths, and hopes. A powerful, reflective closing that they can open years later.
Year 5 & 6
Learning Outcomes
What students take away
Every session is designed around measurable outcomes that align with the National Curriculum and the Future Skills Passport framework.
Broadened career awareness
Students can name and describe a wide range of careers beyond their immediate experience, free from stereotypes.
Self-awareness of strengths
Students can identify their personal strengths, interests, and qualities — and connect these to potential career paths.
Goal-setting skills
Students can set realistic goals and understand the steps needed to work towards them over time.
Understanding of pathways
Students know that there are multiple routes to success — including apprenticeships, college, university, and entrepreneurship.
A girl in Year 5 told me she'd never thought about being an engineer because 'that's not for girls.' By the end of the session, she'd researched three female engineers and said she wanted to build bridges. That's what this workshop does — it removes limits.
Careers Lead
Primary Academy, Liverpool
Plan Your Enrichment Calendar
Perfect For
Fits naturally into careers education events and aspirations programmes.
National Careers Week · MarchAspirations Week · Year RoundTransition Activities · JulySTEM Careers Showcase · March
Pricing & Your Workshop Day
Mission-Led Pricing for Future Skills
Every child deserves these skills. We’ve kept Future Skills workshops accessible to every school’s PSHE budget — including Pupil Premium — so price is never the reason a class misses out.
Half Day
Up to 4 sessions
£599Future Skills accessible price
£499
+VAT
Up to 128 students · £3.87 per student
35–40 min sessions
Up to 32 students per session
EYFS – Year 6 adaptable
All resources & materials included
Dedicated facilitator
Best Value
Full Day
Up to 7 sessions
£799Future Skills accessible price
£599
+VAT
Up to 224 students · from £2.66 per student
40 min (Y3–6) · 35 min (Y1–2 & EYFS)
Up to 32 students per session
EYFS – Year 6 adaptable
All resources & materials included
Dedicated facilitator
Reach every class in your school
✨ After your workshop
Make it stick — add the Future Skills Passport
Workshops are how schools meet the Future Skills Passport. The Passport is the year-long journey — pupils carry their progress from one workshop to the next, and teachers get the statutory PSHE evidence built in.
✓Year-long progression tracking across all 12 Future Skills strands
✓Pupil badges & certificates they can show parents and take to Year 7
✓Statutory PSHE auto-mapped to the DfE framework — no spreadsheets
✓One-click inspection PDF — per pupil, per class, whole-school
✓Members’ discount on every additional Spark2 workshop
✓Free staff training session included with every subscription
From £249/year for a single class · whole-school options available
Sample full-day timetable
Here’s how a typical full-day workshop fits around your school day. KS2 sessions run 40 minutes; KS1 & EYFS sessions run 35 minutes. We’re flexible — we’ll work around your timetable.
9:00 – 9:40
Session 1
e.g. Year 3 · 40 min
9:45 – 10:25
Session 2
e.g. Year 4 · 40 min
10:25 – 10:40
Morning break
10:40 – 11:20
Session 3
e.g. Year 5 · 40 min
11:25 – 12:05
Session 4
e.g. Year 6 · 40 min
12:05 – 1:00
Lunch break
1:00 – 1:35
Session 5
e.g. Year 1 · 35 min
1:40 – 2:15
Session 6
e.g. Year 2 · 35 min
2:20 – 2:55
Session 7
e.g. EYFS / Reception · 35 min
Looking for more?
Explore our Future Skills Passport packages
This workshop is part of the Future Skills Passport programme. Book it as a standalone wow-factor day, or as part of your school’s journey towards Bronze, Silver, or Gold accreditation.
