Careers Programme

 Autumn TermSpring TermSummer TermGatsby BenchmarksWhole school opportunities
Year 7  FORMZ EventCareers Form sessions:  
1)        Changes
2)        What have you achieved?
3)        What influences me?
4)        What are you like?
5)        Skills for like
6)        How do you learn?
7)        This is me
8)        What is work?

National Careers Week Activities
Encounters Assembly1, 2, 3Assembly – National Careers Week

Encounters Assembly- Police / NHS (apprenticeships / T levels focus)

Enterprise activity

Careers Lunch opportunity
Year 8FORMZ EventCareers Form sessions:
1) Think of the future
2) Apprenticeships
3) Are school and work different?
4) What do you want from work?
5) Job families – sectors
6) Challenging stereotypes
7) Budgeting
8) Budget planner
CISCO Smart School workshop (30 students)

National Careers Week activities
 1, 2, 3,Assembly – National Careers Week

Encounters Assembly- British Heart Foundation / STEM ambassadors / Guinness Housing Company (Apprenticeships / T levels focus)

Careers Lunch opportunity
Year 9SPACE Lessons – Apprenticeships and Labour Market Information  SPACE Lessons – Options and Pathways. Labour Market Information. World of Work event Options Assembly

Careers Form sessions:
1) Careers 1 (TBC)
2) Careers 2 (TBC)
3) Careers 3 (TBC)
4) Careers 4 (TBC)
5) Careers 5 (TBC)

CISCO Future app workshop (30 students) National Careers Week activities
SPACE Lessons – Introduction to finance – savings, borrowing, debt, taking risks.1, 2, 3,Assembly – National Careers Week

National Apprenticeship Week

Pathways Process

World of Work

Careers Lunch opportunity
Year 10 SPACE Lessons – Preparing for work experience.
Assembly – National Careers Week

1-1 Career interviews
Careers Form sessions:
1) Careers 1 (TBC)
2) Careers 2 (TBC)
3) Careers 3 (TBC)
4) Careers 4 (TBC)

National Careers Week activities
SPACE – what are employers looking for? Applying for jobs,
preparing for an interview.

Mock Interviews College Taster Day
Work Experience
1-1 Career interviews

Careers Form sessions:
1) Careers 5 (TBC)
2) Careers 6 (TBC)
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8Assembly – National Careers Week
National Apprenticeship Week

Careers Fair

Mock Interviews

Careers Lunch opportunity
Year 11SPACE lessons – Pathways, Personal Statement and Applying to college. Careers Fair – Pathways video for Parents.

Weekly Careers ‘drop in’ sessions – applying to college and apprenticeships Apprenticeship Workshop
1-1 Career interviews

Careers Form sessions:
1) Work Experience Reflection
2) Which way do you go?
3) Your skills and interests
4) What is an apprenticeship
Careers Week
SPACE lessons – From school to Life (Savings, Budgeting, Spending and Borrowing)

Assembly – National Careers Week

Apprenticeship Drop-in sessions
Student Support-college applications College interviews
1-1 Career interviews

Careers Form sessions:
1) Exploring possibilities
2) World of work
1-1 Career interviews1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8Assembly – National Careers Week  
Apprenticeship Week  
Careers Fair
Careers Lunch opportunity

Careers across the School

  • Careers  Lunches – We regularly hold ‘Careers Lunches’ in school to give students the opportunity to meet people from the world of work and find out about jobs and routes to entry.
  • National Careers Week
  • Assemblies
  • National Apprenticeship Week