Cleethorpes Academy is committed to providing students with the skills and attributes needed to make choices about their education and future employment. The Academy will enable students to make informed decisions which are appropriate to the individual student.
The Academy will enable students to make well thought out and balanced decisions about education, employment and their careers in both the short term and long term.
Students will have access to high quality advice, guidance and information helping them realise their ambitions from teachers, trained careers advisors, employers and other educational providers.
Cleethorpes Academy aims to ensure students are given high quality information and guidance to ensure that students are able to make informed choices about their learning pathways and future employment opportunities beyond their time at the Academy.
Cleethorpes Academy will support students to develop their learning and employment decisions by focusing on the Gatsby Benchmarks
The Delivery of careers provision at Cleethorpes Academy is a holistic approach which aims to match opportunities to the individual student.
| Year 7 | Launch of the Start Profile — Students will look at Careers and Labour Market information. Students will start creating personal careers profiles. Developing self-awareness of their own skills and attributes. Consider what their future aspirations are and set targets about how they are going to reach their goals. Use of software to show how their employment aspirations match the local and national labour market. | Encounters with employers in all years | Careers will be a focus in all curriculum area lessons in all years | Review and evaluation of the careers provision |
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| Year 8 | Development of the Start Profile Focused work on GCSE option in lessons and in lessons. In Citizenship lessons, students complete a unit of work about careers. In Citizenship lessons, students complete a unit of work about Enterprise Skills. | |||
| Year 9 | Consolidation of Start Profile. Focused encounters with employers and educational institutions based on students option choices | |||
| Year 10 | Start Profile used to inform future choices. Individual Personal Guidance. Encounters with educational institutions. | |||
| Year 11 | Start Profile used to inform future choices. Individual Personal Guidance. Help and advice given about Post 16 choices. Encounters with educational institutions. |
In Years 7 to 11 there is an expectation that students will have an experience of a work place during this time.
All subjects are required to identify in their schemes of work when and where careers will be delivered in their lessons. Teachers are expected to deliver lessons with students, in all years which link to careers and educational opportunities.
Examples of how careers can be delivered in curriculum areas:
Students will be tracked on how they are engaging with the careers provision and Careers Leaders will use this to target students depending upon their needs.
Careers Leaders will use data collected from the Start Profile website and questionnaires to inform Academy and MAT senior leaders about careers provision.
All students will be tracked on the Start Profile to identify how they are meeting the Gatsby Benchmarks.
A questionnaire will be completed by all students during the academic year. This will show the progress the Academy is making in enhancing their careers provision.
The feedback of teachers and parents will be sought to evaluate the success of the careers programme. This feedback will be used to improve the Academies careers programme.
A report and review of the Academies Gatsby benchmarks should be completed at the end of each term and shared with the senior leadership in the school and the designated governor.
This information should be used by the Academy to identify students who need further intervention.
All teaching staff are required to provide opportunities in their lessons about careers and educational opportunities. All teaching staff are required to register on the Start Profile Website and record when they have completed a careers related activity.
Independent careers guidance is available from Changing Education via Microsoft Teams. The Academy also employees a Careers and Guidance Assistant who provides independent advise to all Year groups.
The Trust has an informal partnership with Grimsby Institute of Further Education, Franklin College to provide help, support and guidance of post 16 opportunities throughout their time at Cleethorpes Academy.
Cleethorpes Academy will be using the Start Profile website. Start will help students' to connect with their future career potential, develop their employability and help them to explore future career and study options at school or at home.
Students will have their own account for Start at school, but it is accessible anytime on computers and compatible mobile and tablet devices.
Students will personalise their profile on Start with details about their skills, qualities, interests and work preferences. This provides a starting point for them to explore information matched to their personal preferences and interests. As they update their profile, Start will personalise this information, helping them to navigate the thousands of jobs, courses, providers and opportunities available. Start will help students to understand where they are on their journey and what's important as they make their choices at GCSE, post-16 and post-18.