Year 10
Year 10 Careers Entitlement
During Year 10 students will be working with their own tutor group and year group on a range of careers related activities. The key area will be for students to research a variety of careers and pathways suitable to their own needs and to work on their career action plan.
Year 10 will be doing the following:
- Continue work on the transferable skills, qualities and capabilities to further develop character in line with what employers look for when recruiting staff.
- PSHE Days including careers workshops and guest speakers.
- Continue Career Action planning.
- Attend CV and interview skills workshop,
- Attend Mock Interview Day - interview with an employer – held in March each year.
- Careers research on a variety of websites.
- Guest speakers, taster days and trips where appropriate.
- Research and applications for work experience.
- Explore pathways: college, apprenticeship, traineeship, university including degree apprenticeships
- Active tutoring with a focus on careers.
- Careers Week focusing on pathways: visits to a variety of colleges and universities and presentations from apprenticeship providers and speed networking with employers in July.
- Ambassador recruitment.
- Preparation for work experience.
- Five days’ work experience – usually takes place in June.
- Debrief of work experience week with tutor group, reflecting and evaluating the experience.
- Extensive sports opportunities to represent the school.
- Charity fund raising throughout the year.
- Student voice
- Personality Testing – identifying possible careers
- Access and activities on the Unifrog careers platform.
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