Our Careers Programme

Year 7 Careers Support Overview

·        Careers workshops designed to help students to discover different industries of work with an emphasis on STEM careers.

·        STEP booklet activities encouraging students to understand their personal skills and how to develop them

Spring Term

·        National Careers Week – students take part in a range of activities related to the world of work. Including completing their ‘career aspiration clouds’ for a display in school.

·        Assembly introducing careers and the support they will receive in school

·        Step Booklet activities introducing ‘The world of Work’

Summer Term

·        STEP Booklet activities based on ‘how to plan for your future’

·        Students will have the opportunity to meet local employers and explore job opportunities within the area in which they live (LMI)

·        Subject teachers to give students the opportunity to visit workplaces and meet employers to help them to discover different industries and make links to where subjects can take them in the future.

Year 8 Careers Support Overview

·         STEP Workbook activities focused on helping students to identify their personal skills

·         Assembly linking subject options to careers and future pathways

Spring Term

·         National Careers Week – students take part in a range of activities related to the world of work. Including ‘where my subject could take me’ talks in lessons

·         Students will meet an independent careers advisor to discuss ‘career aspirations’ and ‘how to choose the right subject options for me’ in preparation for the options evening

·         STEP Workbook activities based on ‘further exploring the world of work’

Summer Term

·         STEP Workbook activities on money and budgeting to help students to understand the importance managing finances

·         Year 8 Options evening with all subjects to help students make choices on the subjects they would like to choose going forward into Year 9

·         Students will visit a University Campus and receive mentoring from a graduate on the Brilliant Club Program to help them to complete a university standard essay

·         Students will attend 1-2-1 mentoring with a local employer to help them to better understand the world of work and help to raise student aspirations

·         Subject teachers to give students the opportunity to visit workplaces and meet employers to help them to discover different industries and make links to where subjects can take them in the future.

Year 9 Careers Support Overview

·        STEP Workbook activities based on behaviours in the workplace

·        Growth and mind-set workshop focussed on building students confidence and inspiring them to achieve their goals

Spring Term

·        STEP Workbook activities focussed on helping students to understand the pathways available to them when they leave school

·        Science department deliver organised STEM workshops to help students to explore careers within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math sectors. (some students to attend the Big Bang Science Fair)

Summer Term

·        STEP Workbook activities on developing personal skills

·        School Careers Fair- Student can meet representatives from employers, apprenticeships, College, Sixth Form and Universities

·        Subject teachers to give students the opportunity to visit workplaces and meet employers to help them to discover different industries and make links to where subjects can take them in the future.

·        STEP Workbook activities looking at Employability skills and behaviours in the workplace

·        Students will meet an independent careers advisor to discuss ‘Post-16 Options’ (including exploring apprenticeships and how to apply)

Spring Term

·        STEP Workbook activities looking at Employability skills and behaviours in the workplace

·        Interview techniques: being ready for the world of work, different types of careers, changing world of work and what you can and can’t be asked in an interview.

·        Writing a Curriculum Vitae: creating a working document that can be updated in year 11

Summer Term

·        Assembly on Post-16 options = college/sixth form/apprenticeships

·        Interview Carousel Day- Interview skills and Mock Interviews

·        STEP Workbook activities looking at Post-16 Options

·        Revision Support Evening for students and parents to build students confidence in how to revise and organising their workload

·        Students complete written applications to apply for leadership roles within school.

·        Workplace experience days

·        School Careers Fair- Students/Parents can meet representatives from employers, apprenticeships, College, Sixth Form and Universities

·        CV updating

·        Students meet the independent careers advisor on a 1-2-1 basis to complete an action plan and post-16 applications (as many as required by student)

·        Labour Market information – looking at county and national statistics and trends

·        Series of Post 16 assemblies (X, Y, Z colleges and at least one apprenticeship providers).

·        Weekly Careers advisor drop-ins

·        Complete Year 11 STEP Work Booklet during Tutor time

Spring Term

·        Weekly Careers advisor drop-ins

·        National Citizenship Service – introduction to volunteering opportunities with follow up workshops.

·        ASK Apprenticeships Assembly

Summer Term

·        CV updating

·        Weekly Careers advisor drop-ins

·        Y11 SEND transition visits to colleges

·        Revision Support Evening to build students confidence in how to revise and organising their workload

·        School Careers Fair- Students/Parents can meet representatives from employers, apprenticeships, College, Sixth Form and Universities