We are keen to show all of our children that they can have high expectations for the future. With hard work, they can indeed ‘reach for the stars’.

Recently year 6 had an ‘aspirations week’, during which they learned about the world of work and looked at how they can begin to build their own vision of their future.

The week was organised by Connections and included sessions in and out of school.

Here’s a report from Emily:

On Tuesday the 22^nd of June all of yr 6 went on a trip to Sunderland University for the day.

We separated into two groups and went off and did about 5 lessons each. We did napkin folding, enterprising, travelling and tourism, senses, radio and media, French and you can not forget about our fabulous packed lunches!

We had lots of fun and we learnt a lot of things that we did not know - now our brains are exploding with facts about lots of different subjects!

Here's another report from an aspect of Aspirations Week, this time from Mitchell:

Grangetown Pupils in Handcuffs! PC Hewitt came in to school to visit the year 6 children during aspire week. We were able to ask him questions about his job. He passed round his handcuffs and his truncheon and some people got to wear his knife proof vest and I was the only one who got to wear his handcuffs. It was really interesting!