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Careers

Ursuline High School, Wimbledon works hard to ensure that all our students have the opportunity to make informed decisions about their future. We aim to help develop students’ knowledge, understanding, confidence and skills so that they make well informed, thought through choices and plans.

We want our students to fully understand the world of possibilities out there, make the most of their talents, and create lasting careers. We help all our students to plan and manage their careers effectively, ensuring progression which is ambitious and aspirational.

Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG).

CEIAG contributes to raising pupil achievement, and helps students focus on their longer-term career. We provide person-centred, impartial and confidential careers information. It is integrated into students’ experience of the whole curriculum and is based on a partnership with students and their parents or carers. We promote equality of opportunity for all, celebrate diversity and challenge stereotypes. Our policy is guided by the Gatsby benchmarks identifying the elements of good practice in career guidance.

These benchmarks are (http://www.gatsby.org.uk/education/focus-areas/good-career-guidance)

1. A stable careers programme

2. Learning from career and labour market information

3. Addressing the needs of each student

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

Student Career Journey

We are committed to ensuring students experience a full, varied and interesting Careers journey. To have the opportunity to explore job families, their own interests, skills, passions, work preferences and understand the wealth of jobs and education available to them once they leave school. All students provide evaluations and feedback for any Careers activity they participate in. This is essential to ensure we can review and amend sessions accordingly and also enables us to measure the impact these sessions have.

Parents and Carers

Parents/carers have an important role to play in supporting their daughter with their careers planning. We encourage them to support and engage with their daughters careers activities and are able to use the software programmes via your daughters access. Parents will be informed when students meet with any of the Careers Department via their planners so that you can follow up and support the conversation and help them explore their options.

Our Links

Strong links have been forged with local employers, colleges and universities. We strive to help our pupils and their parents to make informed decisions about subject choices and future career pathways.

Student Support

All students receive;

Personal guidance and 1 to 1 Careers and Sixth Form interviews
Dedicated Careers sessions (in the PSHE programme) to explore the world of work and their options and what opportunities are available to them.
Access to START and Unifrog – 2 software programmes where they (and you) can among others things explore careers, employability skills, CV writing and future destinations.
The opportunity to meet with employers every year through lunchtime and after school talks and different dedicated year group activities.
The opportunity to link what they learn in their subjects to how this applies in the world of work
Access to meet with the Careers Lead, Careers Advisor and Sixth Form Careers Advisor at any time throughout the year for advice, information and guidance
Ability to use the well-resourced Careers library available to them in the LRC.

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