Aspiration
The JFS is an amazing school for
inspiring children to have great aspirations. Year sevens come into the school
with little or no idea what they want to be when they are older, and they go
out having been inspired by passionate teachers, engaging clubs and career
counselling.
One of the reasons that the JFS is so
good at helping students dream up and fulfil aspirations is the amazing
effectiveness of the school and sixth form, both of these categories received
the grade “outstanding” in the latest Ofsted report. Also it said in the report
that JFS has an “exceptionally
strong ethos of inclusive aspiration”. I would just like to note in passing
that the school was ranked as outstanding in all other categories.
As I mentioned earlier, there are many
extracurricular things that a student can take up. One of these is the Student
Journalism programme which students interested in journalism are invited to
join. Many people have been given an insight into journalism because of it and
it has therefore inspired some to go into some form of journalism. There are
other clubs, for example sports clubs, music clubs, a geography club (travel
club), a coding club, a debating society... The list goes on.
Finally, I would like to talk about
the tutor base activities that we have been doing. Recently, year nine tutor
bases have used a website called Kudos that allows you to complete a survey
which recommends certain professions and rates them on how much you would like
them based on the survey. The students have then got into groups and chosen a
job all of them are interested in. They then made an ideal CV, a job
description, and an advert for that job. Groups have presented these to their
tutor bases and the best from each tutor base will go forward to an inter-form
competition. This will suggest new possibilities of jobs to students that they
possibly hadn’t though up before.
