At Co-op Academy Nightingale, the vision for the development of CRL is to provide the very best opportunities to enable our pupils to broaden their horizons and raise their aspirations. We want our children to see a clear link and purpose between their learning experiences and their future. Our programme promotes equality of opportunity, gives exposure to the world of work, celebrates diversity and challenges stereotypes. Meaning that we can remove barriers between our children and their potential development. We want them to aim as high as possible and provide them with the knowledge, skills and motivation to achieve these dreams.

We want all of our children to leave our school with the fundamental skills to support them in their lives beyond our school, through the next stage of their education and the world of employment beyond. We aim to provide context for these skills through purposeful activities and enrichment opportunities for children to build and apply their skills. We will teach these skills in a bespoke manner to ensure that we deliver at the right level before planning for progression and seeing children advance their skills. To offer children meaning in their building on skills, we want our children to be inspired by the world of employment to see how their interests can be turned into a career and have a wealth of ideas about what they will do with their lives once they leave education.

Our CRL program is both bespoke and unique to our academy and is reviewed on an annual basis to meet our children's needs based on internal monitoring and evaluation processes. We are committed to providing a coherently planned and sequenced programme that reflects our academy’s context and core values. Our programme is designed to entitle all children to develop their knowledge, skills, understanding and cultural capital to support them to go on to positive destinations that meet their aspirations and interests. With this in mind we aim to offer children meaning in their building on skills, we want our children to be inspired by the world of employment to see how their interests can be turned into careers and have a wealth of ideas for what they will do with their lives once they leave education.