On Wednesday 12th February, Chantry Middle School held their annual Careers Afternoon. This is an exciting opportunity for business ambassadors to visit the school and take the opportunity to educate the young people about the vast array of jobs that exist.

This year we had 15 visitors in the school with a range of business expertise and advice including M&S, Intelligence, Fire & Rescue, Banking, Lecturers, Engineering and Dance. All of which provided a wealth of knowledge to the pupils and shared their stories about how they have become involved in their line of work.

Pupils gained a lot out of the afternoon with feedback being really positive:

“It was great to find out about lots of jobs in a short amount of time.”

“The intelligence sounded cool – I would love to be MI5 one day”

“I never knew you could do management training schemes to work in big companies like M&S”

“I have always wanted to help people so if was great to listen to people from the fire service and learn about the equipment and vehicle”

This was echoed by the visitors who mentioned:

“I enjoyed the afternoon and the children were very well behaved and asked lots of good questions”

“Great day, great interaction from kids and they all showed amazing enthusiasm”

“Great kids – very enthusiastic. Would love to attend next year!

“Love the idea, really enjoyed being part of it and the kids had great questions”