What can you expect in Year 7 and Year 8 as part of  our Careers Guidance Strategy?

Key Themes

• Exploring interests and strengths
• My career journey
• Coping with change and transition and planning for the future
• Challenging stereotypes

Career Challenges

• Investigate job families and identify the ones that most closely match your interests
• ‘Draw’ a career timeline to track the decisions you’ll face in the next seven years.
• Set up a skills log to record how you best demonstrate the skills needed for employability

School Provision

• Careers interest and self-assessment exercises such as Fast Tomato, Kudos or JED to explore different career areas
• Careers assemblies
• Visit to School based Careers Fair
• Exploring equality and diversity through investigating different images of learning and work and the people involved
• Industry days and activities linked to, for example – 7 Billion Ideas Company,  ENO Opera Squad, National Science and Engineering Week and The Big Draw.