At Holy Family we encourage students to ASPIRE to the best in all they do. Therefore we are developing a careers education programme that is comprehensive and meets the needs of each child in accordance with the new statutory guidance. We aim to support our students with an impartial advice outlining all the options available from university to apprenticeships, from a gap year to setting up a business.

It can be confusing navigating the world of careers with so many key terms, here is a hand glossary to help you!

Careers Key Terms

Unifrog

Our new Careers platform 

https://cdn.unifrog.org/resources/412/Careers_learning_journey_11-18.pdf

All students in Years 7-13 have accounts created to access activities covering the following areas in a progressive manner: Grow throughout life  Explore Possibilities  Manage Career   Create opportunities      Balance life and work    See the big picture ensuring that most GB are completed and monitored.
These activities are mapped in a termly schedule for each year group shared with the YLs and dedicated Unifrog teachers who oversee the completion of the tasks during careers lessons or  their PSHCE scheme of work.
YLs have the right of access to the reporting functionality of the platform to monitor students’ progress  in their year groups to ensure the activities are completed.
Developing students’ awareness of the modern LMI - through displays of posters around classrooms and careers boards and at break and lunchtimes on the canteen display big screens.

In addition, each Year Group has the opportunity to take part in careers related enrichment activities on the drop down days as part of the PSHCE programme, covering topics that allow them to :

Students have the opportunity to discover themselves by completing a short interests-based questionnaire using the online Careers platform Unifrog. This...

• Helps meet our duty to provide impartial career guidance
• Helps meet the statutory requirements by meeting all 8 Gatsby benchmarks
• Raises students’ self-awareness, aspirations and increases motivation
• Facilitates option choices at 12/13, 16 and 18+

With Unifrog, students can explore their future careers and education options within school or at home with their personal logins. Our programme is designed to enable young people to make excellent choices about their futures and inspire them throughout their time at Holy Family. Each term students will cover a particular theme in the CDI Spiral curriculum to develop their skills and readiness for the world of work and to understand the LMI. See below for links to access each topic.

CDI Spiral curriculum 

Extra focus is placed on Years 7 at their transition to secondary & 9 when choosing their options. All students are offered a one-to-one appointment with our external career advisor.

Years 10 & 12 Work Experience

Work Experience for year 10 & 12 students will take place in July each year. Year 10 & 12 students are encouraged to gain experience for their CV’s and personal statements by participating in our compulsory work experience scheme with the assistance of BEP.

In addition the school uses the weekly newsletter to advertise opportunities such as apprenticeships, summer school and placements at universities or to convey useful information.

There are several supports in place for the Sixth Form students to ensure that they have the correct information whilst researching which courses or universities to choose. There are links with local employers and various speakers from law, medicine, business and arts etc are invited to speak to the students.

Our CEIAG (Careers) Team 

At Holy Family Catholic School, we believe that every adult member of staff should contribute to the whole school approach to careers, with the ambition of delivering a strong CEIAG programme. This approach runs from involving our support staff with their wealth of experiences, through the pastoral system and within the curriculum areas.

In addition, we have tasked a designated careers team with the co-ordinating and the monitoring of the delivery of the Schools Careers Programme.

•  Mr J. Fidegnon (Assistant Headteacher / Careers Leader)
• Mrs C. Pike (Administrative Officer / Careers Administrator)
• Ms V. Osei (Personal Development co-ordinator)
• Mrs Y. Omolabi (Careers Advisor)
• Ms I Herrick (Careers Ambassador for Humanities)
• Mr I Mensah (Careers Ambassador for STEM subjects)
• Mr J. Heskey  (Extra Curricular Coordinator)

‘If you do not know your goal, you do not know where to aim’

Careers’ education at Holy Family is continually developing because we know the world of work is continually developing too. There are so many careers out there and it is one of our missions to make your son/daughter aware of these options. Whether the young person wants to be an electrician, fire fighter, web designer or even an airline pilot, it is our task to research the best way for your son/daughter to access these professions.

Holy Family has also hosted many inspiring speakers through our commitment to the Speakers for School programme and Dame Tessa Jowels and Lord Billimoria, to name but a few, have been extremely impressed with our student body.

Our external providers are vital to our delivery of careers’ education but we also recognise that we need the support of one essential group: You; parents, carers, sisters, brothers and extended families. Therefore if you would like to share your experience of the world of work, or offer any suggestions, internships or work experience placements, please contact me:

Who we work with:

• The National Careers Service.
• The National Apprenticeship Service
• BEP
• Believe in Young People
• The National Citizenship Service.
• Business Education Enterprise.
• The Social Mobility Foundation.
• EY
• PWC
• Barclays
• Working in the City
• Speakers for Schools
• Oxford University
• Cambridge University
• Newcastle University
• Queen’s University
• The Law Society
• Tech City
   

 CAREERS POLICY

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