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Careers Leader Information

James Plant
enquiries@sevenhills.sheffield.sch.uk
0114 274 3560

Careers Progamme Summary:

At Seven Hills School we build up our careers education over time through our curriculum. In phase 1, places of work and employers are recalled within the curriculum, without there being a distinct careers lesson. When students move into phase 2, careers education builds in emphasis, with our semi-formal and formal pathways having Work Related Learning lessons once a week. Once students enter phase 3, they have employability lessons twice a week across all pathways.

Work-related learning is an important part of young people’s education in order to prepare them for future careers and allowing them to develop the skills they need to make a positive contribution to our society.

For further details of the Careers curriculum across the school, please see the Curriculum page.

Progress against the Careers curriculum is measured by assessing targets using the school’s Individual Learning Priorities. In Post 16, students work towards the completion of relevant ASDAN Towards Independence or ASDAN Lifeskills Challenge units. We assess our Careers provision termly against the Gatsby Benchmarks using the Compass Plus online tracker.

Our Careers information gets reviewed annually.

Baker Clause Statement

As part of our school’s Careers education, students are given access to colleges, social care placements, supported internships, and apprenticeship providers to help them make an informed decision about their future provision after leaving Seven Hills School. We measure our Careers provision termly against the Gatsby Benchmarks using the Compass Plus online framework. Personal guidance delivered by SEND Careers Advisors is balanced and considers all future provisions in the local area.

Any provider is welcome to contact the school’s Careers Leader to discuss what they can provide to enhance our careers provision.

Any provider wishing to access or provide IAG to our students as part of our careers programme will be supported by our teaching staff throughout their visit and never left unattended. We will make available appropriate resources to support provider presentations, which will be discussed and agreed in advance to ensure material meets our quality assurances and security measures. Providers are welcome to leave copies of their prospectuses or course literature and we will distribute them to relevant students. We can promote and distribute details of careers and apprenticeship literature and vacancies to all relevant students and parents through direct Email, parent-mail or via letter.

Through our curriculum we hope to:

  • Allow new opportunities, experiences and life skills.
  • Develop social skills/interaction, communication skills, decision making, risk taking and build confidence mutual participation, collaboration, teamwork and independent work to begin to take an active part in society.
  • Provide meaningful, accessible and relevant opportunities for all our students.
  • Develop knowledge and understanding of employers, employment and enterprise.
  • Develop their understanding of life beyond education and the world of work, allowing them to make informed career choices.
  • Allow students to learn from direct work experience ’learn by doing’ including developing the employability skills through work/school enterprise opportunities.
  • Ensure that young people gain the experience and skills and they need to meet the expectations and demands work.
  • Raise awareness of the important links between education and work and to increase the commitment to learning encouraging young people to stay in education/training and to encourage positive attitudes to lifelong learning.
  • Enable young people to develop career awareness, an understanding of different job roles and some of the skills needed to undertake these.
  • Learn about living effectively as independent individuals, to enjoy the experience of work and to solve problems.
  • Raise awareness of the skills young people might need to peruse and build successful careers. Supporting a young people’s ability to apply knowledge, understanding and skills in a specific area.
  • Improve young people’s understanding of the economy, enterprise, finance and the structure of business organisations, and how they work.
  • Learn about living effectively as independent individuals, to enjoy the experience of work and to solve problems.
  • Raise awareness of the skills young people might need to peruse and build successful careers. Supporting a young people’s ability to apply knowledge, understanding and skills in a specific area.
  • Improve young people’s understanding of the economy, enterprise, finance and the structure of business organisations, and how they work.
  • We measure and assess the impact of our careers programme using the Compass Plus online programme which looks at how well we meet the Gatsby Benchmarks:
  1. A stable careers programme.
  2. Learning from career and labour market information.
  3. Addressing the needs of each pupil.
  4. Linking curriculum learning to careers.
  5. Encounters with employers and employees.
  6. Experiences of workplaces.
  7. Encounters with further and higher education.
  8. Personal guidance.

We will review this information in September 2023.