The Experiment School of South University of Science and Technology organized a special day for its first graders to experience their future careers two weeks ago.

    Instead of wearing their school uniforms, the Grade 1 students were allowed to wear costumes that represented their dream careers on the last Friday of November. With their own designs and group collaboration, the 7-year-olds dressed up as pilots, scientists, teachers, firefighters and so on.

    Grouped by their chosen vocation, the students walked along a runway to showcase their outfits and they set up stalls in the school’s lobby and corridor to explain their careers from their unique perspectives.

    According to Zhang Fan, the principal of the school, Vocation Day is an annual activity organized for the first graders to teach them more about possible future careers as part of a yearlong project. Vocation Day is a presentation of what the students have thus far learned from the project.

    The project is deigned to guide the Grade 1 students as they learn about jobs in the grown-up world.

    (Zhang Qian)