Our Primary School Project Pilot – Learning Explorers

Learning Explorers was funded by the British Foreign Schools Society (BFSS) and delivered by the Hub for Success (Hub) and its partners. The project delivered a four session programme, to 295 P7 children (aged 11-12) across the city of Edinburgh. Its aims were to:
• Raise awareness of care-experience
• Normalise and contextualise care-experience within the classroom
• Raise aspirations of care-experienced primary pupils

The Learner Explorers pilot was developed in response to these recommendations and following research with care experienced students, prior to the establishment of the Hub for Success in 2018. It is a widening access programme aimed at Primary 7 students, designed and delivered as a result of a strong collaboration between the Hub for Success partners and care experienced student ambassadors. The project aims to raise awareness, contextualise, and normalise care-experience within the classroom setting alongside introducing and exploring further and higher education as an opportunity open to all.

This evaluation report clearly evidences the positive outcomes the Learning Explorers pilot had in terms of raising awareness of care experience among the P7 participants, increased knowledge of further and higher education and raising aspiration levels.