Two of our core curriculum intents as a school are to:
*Prepare our students and equip them for future success and life in the wider world
*Instil a greater understanding of our local area and the world in which we live
To ensure this we have developed a diverse programme of support and engagement activities to ensure our students are well equipped to make informed choices at the end of each key stage.
The success of our careers programme is demonstrated by the proportion of our students that remain within education or employment at the end of both KS4 and KS5 where our figures are consistently above the national average.
We work with a number of providers to offer our students virtual work experience opportunities, these are available for all students from Year 10 onwards and are advertised in the careers google classrooms. During the last 12 months we have successfully placed students with the following: Cirero (Communications Agency), Cisco, J Murphy Construction, Santander Bank,...
London UK University and apprenticeship fair visits Student involvement in the M&G skills for life programme at M&G London office Investment 20/20 in school seminar and work experience opportunities Insight into Banking & Financial Markets visit – Bank of England UCAS application workshop with Middlesex University Transition to university workshop – Bath University Student Finance...
Use of Kudos online careers tool to support post 16 choices Visit to Skills London Careers exhibition LEANEast Virtual Careers Carousel delivered by Enterprise Advisers/Guest Speakers including TFL, Multiverse, Indeed, NHS, CGI, Morgan Sindall, Framestore, NatWest. Engineering open days at CONEL Virtual Work Experience Placements for Y10 and Y11 Post 16 Options Evening Y10 Virtual visit...
Careers delivered in PSHCE lessons which covers the following preferred style of learning and how to develop study, organisational, research and presentation skills to identify own strengths, interests, skills and qualities as part of the personal review and planning process, including their value to future employability and strategies for further developing them different types of...
Post 16 Progression into education or employment At the end of KS4 97% of our Year 11 pupils were in education or employment compared to the national average of 94% Post KS5 Progression Into education or employment Post KS5 Progression into education or employment - Disadvantaged Students