Strengths, goals and aspirations

Help your primary school pupils start shaping future ambitions by showing them how skills, interests and personality traits relate to different job roles. This lesson utilises our interactive Wheel of Strengths tool to match these aspects with a variety of jobs and provides information about each. They may discover job roles they hadn’t thought of and be surprised at where their skills could take them. 

This lesson features in the employability skills scheme of learning for 7-11 year olds, in P4-7 or Years 3-6.  They provide a ready-made sequence of curriculum linked resources to help you build progression in your learners' knowledge over time. Visit the Scheme of learning homepage to support with your planning.

This lesson has a focus on a number of core transferable skills, if your class is younger or is new to the concept of these skills we recommend starting by delivering activities from our Introduction to core transferable skills toolkit before moving on to this lesson. We have outlined in the lesson plan how activities can be differentiated depending on your class’s age and ability levels.

Please note this the activity requires access to a screen and an internet connection. 

Resources

• Strengths, goals and aspirations: Lesson plan – for use with a group of students in the classroom.
• Strengths, goals and aspirations: Presentation slides – to display to pupils and use alongside the lesson plan.
• Strengths, goals and aspirations: Pupil worksheet – to support completion of the lesson plan activities.

Key learning outcomes

By the end of this session, pupils will be able to:

• Define aspirations, and recognise some of their own.
• Consider what they can do to achieve their goals and aspirations.
• Explore which jobs might be a good match for their skills, interests and personality.