Key Stage 4 - Coombe Careers Evening

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Careers, Education, Information, Advice and Guidance

CEIAG

Mr Jameson / Mr Hughes (Careers Leads)

This Careers Presentation will include…….

• The 8 Gatsby Benchmarks
• How does CBS achieve the Gatsby Benchmarks?
• Yr 10 Work Experience
• Unifrog Launch
• KS 4 into 5 Pathways
• New Coombe Careers Website
• Parent/Guardian Career Network
• QaA

How does Coombe Boys’ School achieve a Stable Careers Programme? (GB1)

GB1. A Stable Careers Programme

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• Autumn Term 1 - 10th-14th Oct 2022 - Coombe Careers Week
• Autumn Term 2 - 5th-9th Dec 2022 - Skills and Enterprise Week
• Spring Term 1 - 23rd -27th Jan 2023 - Save the Planet Week
• Spring Term 2 - 6th-11th March 2023 - National Careers Week
• Summer Term 1 - 18th-22th April 2023 - Global Higher Education Week
• Summer Term 2 - 3rd -7th July 2023 - Citizenship Week

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How does Coombe Boys’ School promote Local Market Information to students? (GB2)

GB2. Labour Market Information

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By the age of 14, all students will be given the opportunity to access and use information about all career paths and the labour market to inform their own decisions on study options.

During their study programme all students will be given the opportunity to access and use information about all career paths and the labour market to inform their own decisions about study options.

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Local Market Information

LMI helps students explore and investigate key aspects of a particular area of employment.

• The sectors, industries and businesses that operate in the local area.
• The jobs that exist
• The number and type of vacancies available
• The sectors and the industries that are predicted to grow and increase in the coming years.
• Travel to work routes
• The kind of skills that are/will be needed by industries and businesses
• Pay and progression routes.

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How does Coombe Boys’ School address the needs of each student? (GB 3)

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• Schemes of learning and experiences that meet students’ individual needs
• Provides encounters with a range of employers to inspire students about different career pathways
• Organises encounters with successful role models who can connect with students of similar backgrounds to help raise aspirations
• Provides accessible information and activities delivered in such a way that it remains interesting and inspirational without being overwhelming to the individual and does not preclude any groups
• Works collaboratively with each student to ensure they understand what their career journey look like in terms of experiences, skill building and knowledge gathering

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How does Coombe Boys’ School link Curriculum Learning to Careers? (GB 4)

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1. Develop links with local employers who are keen to further develop careers learning opportunities for students. The aim will be for every department to arrange career related trips / in school local employer talks / workshops within the academic year.

Examples

• Business Trip - Parkaray
• Geography - Kickstart Climate Change Conference
• Science - National Physical Laboratory

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Linking Curriculum with Careers

2. Focus on making the learning more applied by using real world examples or challenges, by linking with a local employer or employers

3 All subject areas having displays around the school that link their subject learning to different careers

4. Whole school ‘Careers Weeks’ where all teachers plan stand alone career related lessons for their classes.

How does Coombe Boys’ School promote Encounters with Employers GB 5?

GB5. Encounters with Employers and Employees

Coombe Boys' School aims to ensure:

Every student will have multiple opportunities to learn from employers about work, employment and the skills that are valued in the workplace.

This is evidenced through a range of enrichment activities including visiting speakers, mentoring and enterprise schemes, as well students’ own work experiences.

These meaningful encounters are then centrally recorded on Unifrog in order to assess the influence this has had on each student's development.

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Coombe Careers Fair - 1st March 2023

How does Coombe Boys’ School promote Encounters of Further and Higher Education? (GB 7)

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Yr 7-13 - Wealth of Opportunities to meet with Further and Higher Education Institutions

• University / Colleges Talks at Careers Weeks
• Coombe Careers Fair (1st March 2023)
• Student Trips (Yr 9 Enterprise Week)
• Federated Days (Yr 9 - Career Focus)
• Yr 11 Taste of Sixth Form Day
• Sixth Form Opportunities Evening (1st Dec)
• Sixth Form UCAS / University Open Day Trips

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How does Coombe Boys’ School provide Personal Guidance for Students? (GB 8)

Examples of Personal Guidance

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• Students arrange a careers appointment and speak to Mr Jameson / Mr Hughes
• Yr 10 Students - PSHE Barclays workshops / Finance
• All Yr 11 have a Career / Future Pathway Meeting
• Yr 11 Students who have applied for vocational courses are given personalised support with applications
• Yr 12 and 13 Students have one to one Careers / UCAS meetings our Careers Progression Manager

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Yr 10 Work Experience - (Gatsby Benchmark 6)

When- 27-31st of March- The week before Easter Holidays.

School provides the opportunity for the Boys’ to find work experience. Students (with help from you!) need to find their own placement. This is an important part of the process.

We will provide admin support-

• We will phone to check the students turn up and placements are appropriate.
• We will then phone to check with the employer at the end of the week on progress.

The school will not visit the place of work to check health and safety. We are not expected to and do not have the skills to carry this out.

Many schools do not offer this in KS4. It is something we have successful run even post pandemic last year (we were the only local school to do so). There will also be another work experience opportunity at the end of Yr 12 which is mandatory for all pupils.

From Last Years Y10-

Thinking about how to find the placement

What is the purpose of this work experience?

Ultimately, to help the pupils to focus on their academic work.

The week in the world of work often provides a “reality check” to the Y10 pupils.

• It helps them consider their long term plans.
• It also helps with their soft skills- dealing with people who are not teachers and makes them realise what jobs they don’t want to do!

We do not expect them to find their long term career in Y10. Any work experience is fine. We do not expect them to be shadowing the likes of brain surgeons!

Many companies do not take under 16’s so family/friend networks are really important at this point.

Although it may appear daunting, nearly every student manages this every year via their own contacts. We have very limited capacity to help student find placements.

From a personal point of view most issues I have is from students who we have occasionally helped out with placements- there is no “buy in” if it a placement is given to them.

Student Views

What do Parents / Guardians need to do….

• We will consider any placement- even abroad.
• Some pupils have combined work experience with a family visit to relatives- last year we had Dubai and Sweden as two destinations.

Access to Google Forms

• All the forms are on the school website.
• Paper copies for the parents/ Employers are available - we will just fill in the data on the forms for you if you are not able.

Ideal Deadline (Wed 14th Dec) Majority of the forms before end of term.

Final Deadline (Wed 8th February 2023)

• If a firm does not have Employers Liability Insurance (often because they are small- much more common post pandemic) we would need a note from you to acknowledge that you are aware of this.

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Introduction to Unifrog

for parents

What is Unifrog?

• Unifrog believe that destinations - where students end up after school - is even more important than their academic performance. They partner with schools to support students to progress into the best opportunity for them.

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• Unifrog do this by providing a one-stop-shop where students can explore their interests, then find and successfully apply for their best next-step after school.

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Unifrog Summary Video

The Unifrog tools

Exploring pathways

The tools in the Exploring pathways section allow your child to research the types of exciting options available to them after school.

Careers library

Subjects library

Know-how library

MOOC

Personality profile

Webinars

Interests profile

Read, Watch, Listen

Searching for opportunities

The tools in the Searching for opportunities section allow you to compare universities, degree options and special opportunities around the world.

Canadian universities

Oxbridge

European universities

US universities

UK universities

Asian universities

Australasian universities

Special Opportunities

ME and African universities

Irish universities

Events

Recording what you have done

Use the tools in this section to start Recording what you have done!

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Use guidance and examples to prepare students for making applications.

Activities

Competencies

Interactions

Parents & guardians, get signed up!

Go to https://www.unifrog.org/sign-in and click ‘Been given a Sign up Code?’

You’ll be asked for some details and a sign up code. This is what you need:

CMBGPARENTS

After signing up, log into Unifrog using your email address and password via the student sign-in page!

How do you make good A/BTEC Level choices?

Route 1

You know which job you want to do.

Route 3

You want to keep your options open or have no idea

Route 2

You know what you want to study at university.

Key Stage 4 into 5 Transition - Careers Focus

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Future plans - specific subject requirements

• Medicine: Biology & Chemistry A Level
• NHS/Healthcare: Biology A Level ideally (Psychology A Level/BTEC Applied Science & BTEC Health+Social)
• Engineering: often Physics & Maths A Level. Some unis BTEC Applied science or BTEC Engineering
• Pharmacy : Chemistry A Level or via Foundation year

Informed Choices - What subjects needed for specific degree courses https://russellgroup.ac.uk/news/201617-edition-of-informed-choices-published/

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Future Plans -specific subject requirements

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• Architecture: A Levels in a design subject & Physics/Maths or BTEC Science + interest in art.

• Art/Design/Media: a creative subject is usually but entry is based on your portfolio.

• Music & Drama - A Levels useful but entry based on audition/PS

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No specific subjects required - just evidence of interest

• Accountancy/Finance
• Sociology/Anthropology/Criminology
• Business, Marketing
• Law & Politics (lots of reading needed)
• Media & Communication /Fashion Communication
• Psychology (very competitive unis will ask for Science subject).

New Coombe Careers Website

Q&A