Careers education, information, advice and guidance plays a major part in helping students prepare for their transition into adult life. We aim to help students become more aware of their strengths, interests and the options available to them; to raise student aspirations and broaden their horizons

Our Goal

We aim to provide students with up to date and relevant careers education, information, advice and guidance at each transitional stage of their education. They will, therefore have access to unbiased and professional careers support and guidance.

Students can access careers advice in the following ways:

• One to one guidance meeting with the school Careers Coordinator
• Break and lunch time drop-in session
• Careers events
• Information posted on year group TEAMS
• Assemblies
• PSHCE lessons
• Workshops

One to one guidance meetings: to arrange an individual careers meeting you can:

• Pop to see your Careers Coordinator during lunch times in the Careers office
• Speak to your Form Tutor
• Email the Careers Coordinator
• Make an appointment to see your Careers Coordinator Monday – Friday

Careers meeting will take place during school hours in the Careers office (Room A110) situated in the corridor between the Maths and Technology departments.

Parents Evenings

Your Careers Coordinator will be available virtually at year 9,11,12 and 13 evenings to provide information, advice and guidance to you and your Parents/ Guardians.

Careers Coordinator Details:

Mrs Deborah Shepherd
Telephone: 020 8498 1321
Email:

Website content and delivery is reviewed termly by the Careers Contact

Introduction

This policy statement sets out the school’s arrangements for managing the access of providers to pupils at the school for the purpose of giving them information about the provider’s education or training offer. This complies with the school’s legal obligations under Section 42B of the Education Act 1997.

Student Entitlement

All students in Years 7-13 are entitled:

• To find out about technical education qualifications and apprenticeships opportunities, as part of a careers programme which provides information on the full range of education and training options available at each transition point.
• To hear from a range of local providers about the opportunities they offer, including technical education and apprenticeships – through options events, assemblies and group discussions and taster events.
• To understand how to make applications for the full range of academic and technical courses.

How does King Solomon evaluate the effectiveness of its careers programme?

• Each careers event is evaluated with both students and staff to understand the usefulness of the event to future career decisions. It also allows us to make improvements for future events.
• We complete regular self-evaluation of our provision on the Compass tool, to access its progress across all eight Gatsby Benchmarks.
• Our careers programme is reviewed annually and a new timetable of events is produced at the start of each academic year.

Careers Entitlement

Whole school support

All students are entitled to

• Access to impartial advice and guidance from the school careers advisor
• Support from form tutors and staff when making decisions about their future
• Opportunities to learn about the world of work through alumni talks, workplace visits, activities and events.
• Opportunities to understand the range of choices available not only at King Solomon, as well as other educational providers.
• Opportunities to understand the wider world of careers, through the curriculum.
• Opportunities to build and develop employability and enterprise skills.

Key stage three students will be given the opportunity to

• Register with the school careers programme, Morrisby
• Access King Solomon alumni via careers panels and bespoke workshops.
• Access careers presentations in registration to support subject options for GCSE’s and how they may impact on future career choices.
• Take part in PSHCE lessons and other activities to develop employability skills and understand about the world of work.
• Attend our Careers Fair, offering the wide variety of careers available to them including apprenticeships.
• Take part in the year 7-9 careers week.

Key stage four students will be given the opportunity to

• Attend a one to one careers guidance interview with the schools careers coordinator.
• Attend an assembly to encourage and support work experience placements.
• Given the opportunity to receive support in choosing GCSE subject options plus post 16 options.
• Access the schools careers programme Morrisby and use these resources to help to make decisions post 16.
• Opportunity to visit a local Further Education College, if appropriate.
• To attend an Apprenticeship awareness assembly (year 11)
• Attend our Careers Fair offering access to the wide variety of careers available to them, including apprenticeships.
• Receive support from form tutors and staff with making important decisions about post 16 options.

Key Stage 5 students will be given the opportunity to

• Attend university fairs and visit universities
• Access the school careers programme Morrisby and use the resources to help to make post 18 decisions.
• Attend a one-to-one careers guidance interview with the school careers coordinator.
• Receive guidance and support in writing a personal statement.
• Attend talks to give guidance on applying to Russell Group, Oxbridge and overseas universities, together with support from personal mentors.
• Meet with our extensive alumni network and community partners who have followed a range of career and post 18 pathways.
• Take full advantage of a wide range of University Summer Schools.
• Receive support with mock interviews and personal statements with leading professionals in the field.
• Have access to a mentor who will support them in their transition into sixth form.
• Attend our careers fair to have access to the wide variety of careers available to them, including apprenticeships

All activities are measured against the Gatsby Benchmarks

Opportunities for provider access requests

A provider wishing to request access should contact:

Mrs D Shepherd
Careers Coordinator
Telephone: 020 8498 1321
Email:

A number of events, integrated into the school careers programme, will provide an opportunity for external career providers to visit King Solomon High School to deliver planned sessions to our students, parents and carers.

Our Careers Coordinator will identify the most suitable opportunity for each student.

Miss Shutz
Assistant Head Teacher

Mrs Shepherd
Careers Coordinator/Lead

Ms Tye
Careers Adviser (SEND) part time

Apprenticeships offer you an opportunity to earn a wage and work alongside experienced staff to gain job-specific skills. In addition to this, you will work towards a nationally recognised qualification to match your job.

These websites can help you learn more about apprenticeships including the different levels plus help you search for opportunities.

Take a look at the apprenticeship opportunities with us and you may be surprised at what you discover: a rich heritage, a commercial outlook, an iconic brand, a unique public service. It all adds up to make Transport for London a great place to develop your career.

Use the Government website to search and apply for apprenticeship vacancies within the UK.

NGTU is the #1 website for school and college leavers. Search thousands of jobs, opportunities and apprenticeship in the UK and find your perfect fit.

Apprenticeships, Jobs, Reviews and Careers Advice for school & college leavers.

UCAS not only deals with university applications it also has lots of information about apprenticeships and a facility to search for vacancies within the UK.

Gives you information about the different levels of apprenticeships for a wide range of industries and allows you to search and apply for vacancies.

Volunteer Centre Redbridge is based at RedbridgeCVS and offers information, advice and guidance for anyone who lives, works or studies in Redbridge, who would like to find out more about ways to volunteer.

Voluntary opportunities available in the UK

NCVO are committed to supporting, enabling and celebrating volunteering in all its diversity. Volunteering is someone spending time, unpaid, doing something that aims to benefit the environment or someone who they’re not closely related to. Volunteering must be a choice freely made by each individual.

NCVO doesn’t broker or place volunteers in charities directly but have a selection of resources to help you find a suitable opportunity

Great life skills experiences delivered via a residential programme of activities. Please note there is a cost for this of £50.00. There is a bursary scheme available which, if you are eligible may fund all or up to 80% of the cost.

Some useful websites to help you research your career ideas:

Explore jobs within the health industry. Also provides a database of courses leading to a career in health.

Provides job profiles on jobs and careers.

Guide to careers, education and student life. The student calculator is designed to help manage your money and explore education and career options.

A free online library of careers related films, news and information. It also provides information CVs and Apprenticeships.

Provides video stories to inspire your career choice. Aso features careers quiz based upon your strengths, what makes you tick and your personality type.

Plotr – information on different job sectors and careers related information. Also a careers game which matches you to suggested careers.

High-quality resources, programmes and guidance designed to support the six principles of STEM career learning.

Job profiles and graduate information on jobs and careers. Also has a job market information section and careers quiz.

Gatsby Benchmarks

What are the Gatsby Benchmarks?

• A stable careers programme ​
• Learning from careers and labour market information ​
• Addressing the needs of each student.
• Linking curriculum learning to careers.
• Encounters with employers and employees.
• Experiences of workplaces.
• Encounters with further and higher education.
• Personal guidance.

The Gatsby career benchmarks are a framework that schools and colleges can use to develop a good careers programme. They are the recommended elements of good practice in career guidance.

The ultimate aims are

• To provide young people with the tools to create successful futures
• To improve the social mobility of students who lack social capital

Every student, parent and or carer should have access to good quality information about future study options and Labour Market opportunities.

These are the jobs that are in demand in the UK right now.

Exploring these jobs will help you to understand the type of people and skills employers are looking for right now. This should help you to think about your own skills and the subject choices you are making. Or, if you’re about to start applying for jobs, knowing which jobs are in demand will help you to target your job search at certain industries and employers.

https://careers.startprofile.com/page/explore-jobs-in-demand

Careerometer can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations, help you learn about different occupations and identify potential careers. It provides access to a selection of UK headline data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects for different occupations, as well as description of the occupation. Simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you. You can then look up another two occupations and compare. You can also select ‘display the UK average’ and compare the information with the occupation you have selected.

Redbridge is an exciting place to live, learn and work. Our borough is growing and transforming bringing thousands of new jobs in a range of employment sectors.

Use the link below to get the best labour market information and inspiration about careers and study in Redbridge

https://locallondon.startprofile.com/page/redbridge

Parent/Carers

We acknowledge parents and carers’ crucial input in helping their young person make informed choices about future career pathways. We work closely with them and welcome their involvement in their young person’s progress and future career goals.

The Careers Team produce a half termly parent/carer newsletter giving information on activities and events that have taken place during the half term; you can access the current and previous editions.

Careers Newsletter 1
Careers Newsletter 2
Careers Newsletter 3

Employers

We are keen to engage with local and national employers and providers. We host events at school where we invite providers in to speak to our young people, so they are better equipped for the world of work.

However, we are always looking to increase our cohort of employers and providers, both to come into school and to offer work experience.

If you can offer support, please email our careers coordinator

Teachers

Teachers play a vital role in delivering high quality, meaningful Careers Education in the classroom and beyond.

For you to feel confident to support our students we offer.

• Staff briefing sessions
• Opportunities to attend career related events
• Access to Labour Market Information
• Information on Post 16 and 18 options

To support you below are some websites you might find useful:

Morrisby Careers – The online careers package exploring careers, the world of work, training, further and higher education

Icould – Teaching resources and real-life case studies

Apprenticeships – Government site with all you need to know about apprenticeships

UCAS – Information on higher education, apprenticeships and the world of work

LMI for all – Reliable labour market information