Careers at Sir John Leman
The Careers team can be contacted via: careers@sirjohnleman.co.uk or on 01502 719956
In all years, students are given a wide range of opportunities to gain an insight into the world of work and investigate career pathways, following the key themes of our comprehensive and cohesive Careers and Skills programme.
The school's career programme provides students with information, advice and guidance and the opportunity for students to develop qualities and skills required by employers and prepare them for the next step in their education or career.
The opportunities include business challenges, enterprise days, visits to businesses, speakers from the world of work, events relating to specific employment sectors, work experience placements and STEM fortnight events and activities in addition to a well-structured PSHEE programme. The school works with the Enterprise Advisor Network, a national network that connects schools and colleges with employers and careers programme providers to work together to create meaningful encounters with the world of work for young people. The network is based on evidence that a young person who has four or more encounters with an employer is 86% less likely to be unemployed or not in education or training, and can earn up to 18% more during their career.
Mr C Woodard - Leader of PSHEE and Careers
Ms T Lathrope - PSHEE and Careers Support Officer
Mrs J Moye - Work Experience Co-ordinator
Mrs S Silvers - Director of Sixth Form
Personal Guidance
Students are entitled to have a careers guidance interview with Ms Lathrope, our impartial Careers Guidance Adviser. Appointments can be arranged through Ms Lathrope or tutors. Mentoring may also be available with our HE Champion, through the Network for East Anglian Collaborative Outreach (NEACO) and our volunteer business mentors.
Careers Library
The Careers Library in the Learning Resource Centre has a range of resources available including prospectuses for colleges and universities and reference books about employment, further and higher education and gap years. We also have several software programmes to help students find out more about further education, higher education, employment, and training opportunities which include Unifrog. Students also have access to the online career platforms, and Start Profile, which can be used to develop skills and help prepare them for future study and career choices.
Raising Participation Age
The government has increased the age to which all young people in England must continue in education or training, requiring them to continue until the end of the academic year in which they turn 18. This does not necessarily mean staying in school; young people have a choice about how they continue in education or training post-16, which could be through:
- full-time study in a school, college or with a training provider
- full-time work or volunteering combined with part-time education or training
- an apprenticeship.
Careers & Skills Programme
HOW WE MEASURE AND ASSESS THE IMPACT OF OUR CAREERS & SKILLS PROGRAMME
Destination measures provide clear and comparable information on the success of our school in helping all of our pupils take qualifications that offer them the best opportunity to continue in education or training. Key Stage 4 and 5 destination data is published on www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables.
The structure of the careers programme is informed by the Career Development Institute framework for careers, employability and enterprise education. We regularly assess the quality of our provision against the eight Gatsby benchmarks of Good Career Guidance through completion of the Compass+ tool to benchmark, manage, track and report on our school’s careers programme.
- A stable careers programme
- Learning from career and labour market information
- Addressing the needs of each pupil
- Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Encounters with employers and employees
- Experiences of workplaces
- Encounters with further and higher education
- Personal guidance
The school regularly asks for feedback from students, parents, teachers and employers in the form of evaluation forms and questionnaires etc and through both verbal and written communication to help us measure the impact of our careers programme.
REVIEWING CAREERS & SKILLS PROGRAMME
The school reviews our careers programme on an annual basis, and following feedback from key stakeholders, at the start of each academic year, with the next review of the information published due in September 2022.