| | Autumn Term | Spring Term | Summer Term | Gatsby Benchmarks | Whole school opportunities |
| Year 7 | | Careers 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?
Assembly – National Careers Week
| Encounters Assembly | 1, 2, 3 | Assembly – National Careers Week
Encounters Assembly- Police / NHS (apprenticeships / T levels focus)
Enterprise activity |
| Year 8 | Careers 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 | Assembly – National Careers Week | | 1, 2, 3, | Assembly – National Careers Week
Encounters Assembly- British Heart Foundation / STEM ambassadors / Guinness Housing Company (Apprenticeships / T levels focus) |
| Year 9 | SPACE Lessons – Apprenticeships and Labour Market Information | Careers Week
SPACE Lessons – Options and Pathways.
World of Work event
Options Assembly
Assembly – National Careers Week | SPACE Lessons – Introduction to finance – savings, borrowing, debt, taking risks. | 1, 2, 3, | Assembly – National Careers Week
Pathways Process
World of Work |
| Year 10 | | Careers Week
SPACE Lessons – Preparing for work experience.
Assembly – National Careers Week
1-1 Career interviews | SPACE – what are employers looking for? Applying for jobs, interview skills.
Mock Interviews College
Taster Day
Work Experience
1-1 Career interviews | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 | Assembly – National Careers Week
Apprenticeship Week
Careers Fair
Mock Interviews |
| Year 11 | SPACE 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 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 | 1-1 Career interviews | 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 | Assembly – National Careers Week
Apprenticeship Week
Careers Fair |
