Career Programme Model
Advising students about the career pathways on offer is a fundamental role of secondary school and giving the right advice will allow students make informed choices about their own futures and realise their potential. To ensure that this happens, there will be a number of embedded activities to give students information about future choices. These activities will be enhanced through regular contact with universities and employers which will be organised over the year.
Our aim is support all of our students from Year 7 and have a number of bespoke opportunities for disadvantaged students. We will endeavour to inspire and enthuse students in to looking at the world of work through an extensive and fluid work related learning programme.
A full live programme of events can be found here.
Below is a breakdown by year groups of the careers support offered whilst at Calderstones:
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Year 12
Year 13
Year 7
- Assemblies: meet employers throughout the year to learn about local labour markets and careers
Year 8
- Assemblies: meet employers throughout the year to learn about local labour markets and careers
Year 9
- Assemblies: meet employers throughout the year to learn about local labour markets and careers
- Career Interview: 1-2-1 discussion with an adviser to support GCSE choices
- Career Guidance: HE and apprenticeship advisors will be available at Parents Evening
- Apprenticeship and Employment Evening for Students and Parents
- HE/FE Information Evening for students and parents
Year 10
- Assemblies: meet employers throughout the year to learn about local labour markets and careers
- Employability Interviews: Local employers give each student a mock interview
- Career Guidance: HE and apprenticeship advisors will be available at Parents Evening
- Apprenticeship and Employment Evening for students and parents
- HE/FE Information Evening for students and parents
Year 11
- Assemblies: meet employers throughout the year to learn about local labour markets and careers
- Career Interview: 1-2-1 discussion with an adviser to support future pathways decisions
- Career Guidance: HE and apprenticeship advisors will be available at Parents Evening
- Apprenticeship Workshops: Ask Apprenticeships advise students on the registration process
- Apprenticeship and Employment Evening for students and parents
- HE/FE Information Evening for students and parents
Year 12
- 6th Form Induction: Held at LJMU: a taste of what is to come?
- Assemblies: meet employers throughout the year to learn about local labour markets and careers
- Career Guidance: HE and apprenticeship advisors will be available at Parents Evening
- What Career Live Event: All Year 12 visit Liverpool’s largest Career/HE fair
- HE Week: Lecturers deliver sessions in school; Year 12 visit Edge Hill and Liverpool Universities
- Student Finance Workshops: Delivered by LJMU, Shaping Futures, UoL
- Apprenticeship and Employment Evening for students and parents
- HE/FE Information Evening for students and parents
Year 13
- Assemblies: meet employers throughout the year to learn about local labour markets and careers
- Student Finance Workshops: Delivered by LJMU, Shaping Futures, UoL
- Bespoke Tutor Support: Tutors give outstanding advice regarding pathways and support the application process for university, apprenticeships and employment
- Career Guidance: HE and apprenticeship advisors will be available at Parents Evening
- Mock Interviews: Offered to support students applying to competitive courses and apprenticeships
The effectiveness of our careers guidance will be reflected in the higher number of students progressing to ‘positive’ destinations such as apprenticeships, technical routes, sixth-form colleges, further education colleges, universities and employment. Destination data (DfE) is used to assess how successfully students make the transition to the next stage of education, training or employment and to inform future CEIAG provision.
