Careers Overview
Our aim at Stanchester Academy is for all students to achieve their personal best. In careers education, this translates as every student making well-informed decisions about their future.
Stanchester Careers will:
- Provide quality independent and impartial careers advice to students which inspires and motivates them to fulfil their potential. .
- Encourages students to develop high aspirations and consider a broad and ambitious range of careers.
- Provide opportunities to work engage with employers, training providers, local colleges and others to provide opportunities to inspire students through real-life contact with the world of work.
- Develop enterprise and employability skills
- Support inclusion, challenge stereotyping and promote equality of opportunity.
- Encourage students to see career development as a life-long process.
Careers education is the responsibility of all Stanchester staff, and our pupils can expect advice and guidance from both formal and informal conversations across the school campus. Careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) at Stanchester Academy has four elements:
Careers Education: delivered through the tutor programme, curriculum, and PSHRE to give students the knowledge and skills to make confident choices
- Career Information: Including options, skills, occupations, labour market information (LMI), pathways and progression routes.
- Careers Advice and Guidance: Independent and impartial careers advice and guidance provided by a L6 qualified careers advisor.
- Work Related Learning: Experiences within and outside the curriculum to help students learn about economic well-being, careers and enterprise.
Teachers/ Curriculum
Our PSHE / Careers and Citizenship Curriculum, ensures that the key skills and essential knowledge permeate our curriculum from year 7 to year 11, allowing our pupils to make links in their learning as well as develop the ability to think more deeply about what they are learning.
All teachers include careers into their lessons and develop student’s employability skills. Staff have access to a wide range of resources on the school Intranet to showcase careers in their subject lessons.
Teachers are encouraged to implement the below into the curriculum:
· Have a prominent display that links subject learning and skill development to different careers.
· Develop links with businesses and organisations.
· To invite alumni and other external speakers to come into school.
· Where appropriate to organise external visits for students to local businesses.
· Record careers learning opportunities for students.
· Take part in whole school careers events, such as the Careers Fair by actively engaging with the exhibitors, building links in their own curriculum areas.
· Consider the needs and interests of all students and ensure that information challenges career stereotyping including gender, race and disability.
View our Careers Policy and Provider Access Policy here
View our Autumn Careers Programme overview here. (Please note this is a fluid document that is subject to change, but provides an overview of our intent for the year).
Careers Staff
- The Senior Leadership Careers Lead is Mrs Gemma Glentworth, email gemma.glentworth@stanchester.co.uk
- Our work experience administrator is Ms Virgina Waller, who can be found in the student office, or email virginia.waller@stanchester.co.uk
- Our Careers Link Governor is Adam Sturt.
- Enterprise Adviser - Lucy-Ella Robinson, email Lucy-Ella.robinson@yeovil.ac.uk
- We work in partnership with the Somerset Careers Hub and Stanchester Academy are implementing and evaluated on the Gatsby Foundation’s eight Career Benchmarks of good practice. We are currently at 100% in all areas.
Employers & Training Providers
At Stanchester Academy we are busy growing your employees of the future. We welcome the help of local businesses to raise the career aspirations of our students, develop their employability skills and learn more about the exciting industries in Somerset.
We welcome Training Providers and employers to come into school and talk to our students. Please see our Provider Access Policy / Baker Clause for events and contact details (link to ours)
How Employers and Training Providers Can Help Our Students:
· Book to attend a local Careers Fair, usually held in the autumn term.
· Give a short careers talk about your company, apprenticeship scheme, your role and career path and answer students’ questions.
· Providing Work Experience to our students. Year 10s complete a five-day placement in March which they start arranging from July of the previous academic year. We currently work with over 200 businesses and always welcome more.
· Assisting with the Year 10 Mock Interview event. This is in May and around 60 interviewers are needed for either one full day or two to give all our Year 10 students an interview experience.
· We aim where possible to bring the careers and workplace application into curriculum lessons. We welcome links with employers who can contribute to a specific subject department by either allowing students to visit their company on a school trip, or come into school to deliver an aspect of subject curriculum to a class.
· If you have an apprenticeship you wish to fill please email details to our Careers Leader and this will be forwarded to the students who are planning the workplace and looking for that type of employment
If you are able to assist or would like to find out more information about the work of our Careers department, please email our Careers Leader on gemma.glentworth@stanchester.co.uk
Stanchester Academy has the benefit of a key business volunteer who works with us on a strategic level, encouraging the development of our careers programme and connecting us to the business community across the county. This role is recognised nationally as an Enterprise Adviser (EA) and they are part of the Somerset Careers Hub community of support driving the connection between careers education and the business sector. Our Enterprise Adviser is Lucy-Ella Robinson (2) Lucy-Ella Robinson | LinkedIn email Lucy-Ella.robinson@yeovil.ac.uk, Lecturer Supported Internship & Enterprise at Yeovil College.
Labour Market Information
As part of our careers programme we signpost pupils and parents to CAREER PILOT to access up to date information about the labour market and employability skills.
You can also use the Careerometer tool to better understand and compare jobs - salary, working hours, etc.
Type in the first career that you think you might be interested in and select from the drop-down list, then add your first and second choice to see the comparison
The Somerset Careers Hub have launched a selection of Padlets to support students.
Students & Parents/Carers : This Padlet is designed for students, parents & carers. It contains information such as open days, along with local opportunities and support for students, parents & carers on the transition to Post 16 & Post 18.
Links to FE and training providers:
Further support
For both parents and students, find further links to career information here.
For employers and professionals wishing to engage with our careers progamme please complete this EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT FORM
We review our careers offer regularly. Learner voice and parental feedback are key to ensuring our careers programme is meaningful and has impact. We value your feedback, which can be given by completing this PARENT FEEDBACK FORM.
Alumni?
We love to champion success stories from our Alumni, as this can be the most tangible, aspiring way of educating our pupils about their future options.
If you are an old pupil please do get in touch here to share your career journey, and join our LinkedIn page.
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