Careers education is a highly valued and important part of what we offer students at KLB School to prepare them for their future. We are incredibly proud of the provision in curriculum, extra-curricular and information and guidance offered to each and every student. The school aims to deliver careers guidance that is impartial, confidential and based on the needs of individual pupils.
Our policy is to support, encourage and enable pupils to make informed choices and transitions related to their personal, educational and career development. The careers programme is comprehensive and underpinned by the GATSBY benchmarks and guidance from the Department of Education.
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Information about our Careers Provision
- Self-management
- Team working
- Business and customer awarenes
- Problem solving
- Communication and literacy
- Application of numeracy
- Application of information technology
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- A stable careers programme
- Learning from career & labour market information
- Addressing the needs of each student.
- Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Encounters with employers & employees
- Experiences of workplaces
- Encounters with further and higher education
- Personal guidance.
- (See Appendix one of the CEIAG policy for a fuller explanation of these benchmarks.)
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- Careers Education and Guidance
- Work Experience
- National Curriculum Subjects
- Personal and Social Education including tutor time and assemblies
- Vocational Education
- An annual Careers Convention (Not in 2020 or 2021 due to Coronavirus)
- College visits
- Input from our Enterprise Adviser.
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- Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) activities with the support of STEM representatives from local businesses. Activities have included ‘speed-dating’ (for Year 11 students who may wish to study STEM subjects at A level and beyond), engagement in local design and engineering competitions and visits to local engineering companies.
- Visits to careers shows for students who may be interested in vocational courses and apprenticeships
- Whole group talks by business representatives and apprenticeships.
- Taster sessions at colleges
- the analysis of the destinations of students after they have left the school and, where available, information about their progress in further or higher education, training and employment.
- through surveys of students in the school and also through exit surveys towards the end of Year 11 and Year 13.
- feedback from students who have used the services of the independent Prospects adviser
- feedback from employers
- feedback from parents
- reporting to SLT and the governors annually using the Compass self-evaluation tool or equivalent.
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Careers Resources
Career Coach for Gloucestershire
Local website supporting young people in accessing skills and job search
Careerometer
Careerometer can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations, help you learn about different occupations and identify potential careers. It provides access to a selection of UK headline data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects for different occupations, as well as description of the occupation.
Simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you. You can then look up another two occupations and compare. You can also select ‘display the UK average’ and compare the information with the occupation you have selected.
Skillsometer
Skillsometer can help you discover what jobs you might like to do in the future. You will be presented with a series of statements. Select the emoji that shows how you feel about each statement. You will be given suggestions of jobs linked to what you most enjoy doing.
GoCompare: The UK’s riskiest jobs
While many people might think their job is hazardous to their health, for some the threat is serious. In these industries work really can be a matter of life or death, so we wanted to see where the risk was highest, and just what was making these occupations so dangerous.
Some risky jobs might seem obvious, but others might come as a surprise.