Kingshurst Primary School
Flourishing Futures
Flourishing Futures is our trust-wide enrichment and careers programme, running from Reception to Year 6.
Our vision
At Prosper Together Multi Academy Trust, we are committed to every pupil having access to enriching experiences that build their cultural capital, whatever their background. Through our career-themed programme, we aim to inspire ambition, develop essential life skills and broaden children's understanding of the world around them.
Together, we flourish, and no child is left behind.
Why this matters
Many children in North Solihull face challenges that limit their access to enriching activities. This programme is central to our mission of removing barriers to an exceptional education.
- Closing the opportunity gap.
- Building cultural capital.
- Skills for life.
- Raising ambition.
- Wellbeing and growth.
The Seven Skills for Life
Every part of the programme develops the same seven skills: Oracy, Teamwork, Leadership, Innovation, Staying Positive, Aiming High and Problem Solving.
Children learn to name them and to recognise when they are using them, so the language follows them through school and into everything they do.
How it works
Flourishing Futures covers everything your child does beyond the core curriculum, brought together into one programme so that nothing a child takes part in goes unnoticed.
Career-themed sessions
The taught part of the programme. In Reception to Year 2, three drop-down days across the year, each built around a different kind of work with a career champion to meet. In Years 3 to 6, three cycles of six weeks, with children working on a career theme their teacher has built.
Everything else a child takes part in
Clubs at lunchtime and after school. Trips and residentials. Visitors and workshops from people outside school. Performances and productions. Sporting fixtures and house competitions. Leadership roles such as school council, eco team and play leaders. Volunteering and community work. Charity days children plan and run themselves.
All of it is part of Flourishing Futures, not separate from it.
What happens outside school
Football, dance, Scouts, Brownies, swimming, music, drama, faith groups, a museum at the weekend, a show, a family fundraiser. We count these too, because a child's experience does not stop at the school gate.
Held together in one place
Every one of these is recorded for every child, and each one earns points towards their award. That matters for two reasons. It means children are recognised for everything they do, not just what happens in lesson time. And it means we can see, child by child, who is getting plenty and who is missing out, so we can do something about it before they leave us.
Measured against the national standard
In June 2026, the Department for Education published its Enrichment Framework, setting out what a strong enrichment offer looks like. It names five areas every child should have access to.
| Area | What this looks like at Kingshurst |
|---|---|
| Civic engagement | Leadership roles, volunteering, charity days, pupil voice |
| Arts and culture | Performances, theatre visits, museums and galleries, design and media themes |
| Nature, outdoor and adventure | Forest School, residentials, farm and zoo visits, conservation and green careers |
| Life and future skills, including STEM | Career-themed sessions, engineering and technology, enterprise, money and finance |
| Sport and physical activities | Clubs, fixtures, house competitions, Bikeability, trying a new sport |
Every activity a child takes part in is recorded against one of these five areas. That is how we know children are gaining breadth rather than more of the same, and how we spot what is missing before it becomes a gap.
Points and awards
Children earn points for everything they take part in, in school and outside it. Points build up across a child's whole time with us and never reset, so a child who starts in Reception carries every point to Year 6.
There is a limit of 10 points a term for the same regular activity outside school. That is deliberate, so no child is pushed down the list because of what their family can afford.
We will ask you about your child's activities outside school each term. It takes a couple of minutes, and it means your child gets credit for everything they do, not only what happens during the school day.
Because points never reset, children work toward the higher awards over several years rather than in one.
Graduation
Every summer, children from all five Prosper Together schools come together at The Core Theatre in Solihull. Children wear caps and gowns, families fill the auditorium, and we celebrate what they have committed to. In June 2026, we were joined by the Mayor of Solihull and guests from across the borough. Our next graduation is on Wednesday 30 June 2027.
Meet Oakley
Oakley the Acorn is the face of Flourishing Futures, on certificates, displays and the stage at graduation. A small acorn that grows into something far bigger is exactly what we want children to believe about themselves.
