insideKENT Magazine Issue 67 - October 2017 | Page 104

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How do we prepare children for
jobs that don’t exist yet?
None of us knows today what the world is
going to require of us tomorrow. But some of us are
keeping an extremely close eye on things.
At Sevenoaks School, many of the skills that
will be called for in the future are embedded in our
curriculum now.
Critical thinking for instance, is exercised here
daily from the start. So is complex problem solving.
With one eye firmly trained on the world beyond
our gates, we equip all our students with the skills
they will need to reshape it.
So if sixty per cent of roles have yet to be
invented*, Sevenoaks alumni will be ready to take them
on when they are.
www.sevenoaksschool.org
*The Future of Jobs report, World Economic Forum. Potential jobs listed include: Space Pilot, Recycling Enforcer, Nano-medic,
Memory Augmentation Surgeon, Hydroponic Farmer, Graphene Engineer, Experimental Food Developer, Ethical Hacker,
Climate Change Reversal Specialist, Avatar Manager/Virtual Teacher