How does Romodels create this new reality?
By emboldening a generation of children who are dreamers and doers, who believe in their ability to grow and adapt to an ever-evolving world, and who see themselves as leaders.
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We do this through our unique blend of first-hand expertise and curriculum-aligned on-demand resources.​​
Our online bilingual learning portal helps teachers support their learners through a journey of career exploration in three simple steps
1. Discover
2. Experience
3. Believe
Once learners’ eyes have been opened to the world of career possibilities, we offer them interactive career learning to allow them to experience and explore what they’ve discovered.
This hands-on approach helps challenge career stereotypes by presenting diverse and innovative career paths for young learners.
Discover
We first need to enable pupils to discover a world of opportunities that they have not yet had the chance to explore
We do this in two ways:
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First, we focus on what is familiar to learners.
We present them with common items that they see or interact with regularly – a bee, plastic waste, a football, etc. Using these items to capture their attention. We invite pupils to discover hidden, 21st-century careers related to those everyday objects – careers they likely have never considered before. We place a focus on introducing careers that solve real-world problems and that require leadership, creativity, and innovation. Our first six items (themes) are bees, climate change, creatives, football, plastic waste and technology.
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Second, we introduce learners to real-life role models.
Our Romodels do jobs that relate to those objects which are familiar to learners. Their careers generate impact and require leadership. Our Romodels come from diverse backgrounds and have unique lived experiences, enabling every learner to find a Romodel they can relate to. Learners hear Romodels tell their career and life stories, where they share stories of overcoming stereotypes and adversity in their chosen careers, in order to inspire the learners.
Meet our Romodels
Sam Garrard
Marine Ecologist
Sam is a mum and a Marine Ecologist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, working on projects in the North Atlantic and Singapore to campaign against the affect of plastic waste on marine animals and habitats.
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Why? 100 million marine animals are killed each year due to plastic debris in the ocean.
Sam Carew
Entrepreneur
Sam is a father of four and entrepreneur who started a trainer company which is good for the planet. The company uses recycled vegan materials and is one of the first carbon neutral footwear brands in the UK. Sam uses some of his profits to replant mangrove trees in Bali.
Why? 149 million shoes are thrown away every year in the UK.
Saffron Rennison
Referee
Saffron is a football referee and works at the Football Association of Wales (FAW) to help run league and cup competitions across the country.
Why? In Wales, there are a total of 1,089 football referees, yet less than 5% of these are women and girls. Saffron is hoping to attract more women and girls into the football family.
Morgan and Bleddyn Williams
Engineers for Good
Two Welsh-speaking brothers and entrepreneurs have set up a company which uses green materials to 3D print sports equipment. When the equipment reaches its end of life, they have a clever manufacturing process to repurpose it into cleaning products.
Why? Last year 8.5 million tonnes entered landfill in the UK.
Miss Davis
Beekeeper
Llanishen Fach Primary School Beekeepers have planted a pollinator garden in their school grounds and the beekeeping club, including Abigail 7 and Liv 11, actively looks after one hive.
Why? One-third of the food we consume relies on pollination, mainly by bees.
Evie Furness
Underwater gardener
Evie is an Underwater Gardener, or otherwise known as a Marine Biologist, based at Swansea University. Evie is using her scientific skills to help to replant seagrass meadows around the U.K.
Why? Seagrass meadows are better than tropical rainforests at capturing carbon and helping to fight climate change.
Experience
Once learners' eyes have been opened to a world of career possibilities, we want to give them a chance to experience what they have discovered.
We do this by providing cross-curricular activities aligned to the Curriculum for Wales:
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Each Romodel sets missions for learners that are directly related to their careers.
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The missions span across the six Areas of Learning -- Maths and Numeracy, Science and Technology, Expressive Arts, Language, Literacy and Communication, Health and Wellbeing and Humanities.
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Teachers can select Areas of Learning to prioritise, and they can differentiate learning for individual learners by selecting progression steps and levels of difficulty.
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Learners earn badges, colour coded to the AOLE for the missions they complete.
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We also have 'Learner in Action' challenges which further promote independent learning. This includes ideas for enhanced provision and guidelines for independent projects.
Explore our example missions
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Sam Garrard
Humanities
Sea Turtle’s Fate
Area of learning: Humanities
Statement of What Matters: Our natural world is diverse and dynamic, influenced by processes and human actions.
​Description of learning (Progression Step 2): I can describe how people and the natural world may impact on each other.
I can describe how places, spaces, environments and landscapes are important to different people and for different reasons.
​Objective: To gain insights into how our behaviours impact on ecosystems, in this case, coral reefs.
Student Mission​
Sam’s mission: I need your help in understanding the fate of baby sea turtles on an island I’ve been studying. I want to use your research to campaign against plastic waste.
Earn your badge: Can you open the sea turtle eggs and read what happened to them? Put the egg in the red bowl if the cause of death was human or green if it was natural. What patterns are we seeing? Can you come up with charts I could use in my research? What more could we do to change our behaviour and help sea turtles? How can you advocate for them?
Sam Carew
Maths and Numeracy
The Next Shoe Colour
Area of learning: Maths and Numeracy
Statement of What Matters: Statistics represent data, probability models chance, and both support informed inferences and decisions.
​Description of learning( Progression Step1): I can investigate, collect and record data found in my environment. I am beginning to represent and interpret data, using a range of methods​
Objective: To gain insights into the market and help learners understand the practical applications of statistics in informed decision-making.
Student Mission
​Sam’s Mission: I want to launch a new shoe. Can you help me understand what colour my next shoe should be?
Earn your Badge: Can you use the class's favourite colour to inform Sam's market research? Let's create a pictogram with our favourite colours. What colour shoe should Sam launch?
Let's do the same and ask the boys and girls separately. What do you notice? Are there any differences in the colours chosen? Why? What else should Sam consider?
Believe
Our ultimate goal is to enable children to see Romodels and believe, “That could be me!” We want them to believe their future is limitless.
We do this through:
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Our Reflection Guides. They help learners recognise the strengths they’ve built during the experience phase.
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Our “How to Become…” resources. These include child friendly job descriptions for the role to help them identify what knowledge and skills to focus on now and what it takes to become that role in the future.
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Our Romodels "Reminder Binders“. These create a way for learners to capture their journey of career exploration and achievements across primary school
Future Bee Behavioural Scientist
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Discover Experience Believe
At Romodels, we create a new reality for children by engaging them from an early age in exploring dynamic future career opportunities through immersive interactions with real-life role models
