Career guidance
Preparing young people with SEND to take the next steps on their career journey.
My skills, my future.
How do we plan individual career support?
We use the 8 ‘Gatsby Benchmarks’ to plan how to best support individual students with career access and decision making.
Community learning
Community learning from KS3 onwards contributes towards preparing students to access their local community and engage in a variety of new experiences and local amenities. This supports students to;
- learn how to be part of wider community beyond school and home
- learn how to be safe in the community (stranger danger, road safety, etc.
Activities can include:
- visits to possible employers in the community
- visits to possible future education settings
- visits to possible leisure facilities
- practicing skills such as exchanging money for goods, finding items from their shopping list in the shops
- using their communication skills and/or aids to interact with less familiar adults to ask for help
- reading labels in shops, self scanning, packing shopping bags.
Work related learning and training
KS4 and 6th form students can take part in a number of tasks around school such as:
- preparing the hall for assemblies
- organising the lunch hall
- taking part in our car washing programme
- delivering cooking ingredients to classes
- delivering milk and other goods to classes
- helping with laundry tasks
- running the staff tuckshop
- enterprise projects and selling at enterprise fairs
- making and selling badges in our badge shop
- caring for our school chickens
- delivering letters around school
- small maintenance jobs
- collecting and delivering lunches.
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Career support during KS3
- Taking part in assemblies related to different jobs and occupations.
- Exploring new places in a community.
- Starting to learn new skills across all lessons.
Career support during KS4
- Taking an active part in assemblies /careers fair
- Enterprise lessons
- Starting work related training /skills based training
- Employability sessions
- Visiting local employers
- Taking part in Careers Fair
- Exploring the community
- Shadowing
- AQA accreditations
- Annual review conversations where parents/carers will share their views and aspirations for their child’s pathway beyond 6th form
Career support during 6th Form
- Mastering skills through work experience and work related training
- Work experience in the local area (where appropriate)
- Finding their own future pathway
- Visiting potential future education settings
- Taking part in Careers Fair in school and in other schools/settings
- Exploring places in the community
- Meeting Careers Advisors (where appropriate)
- AQA, ASDAN accreditations
Work experience
There are work experience opportunities available for KS4 and 6th form students that take into account each student’s interests, abilities and skills. They can be within school or in our local community.
Recent work experience has included stock handling at the Co-Op, and stamping books and helping to deliver a toddler music group at Yiewsley library.
Management of provider access requests procedure
A provider wishing to request access should contact:
- Izabela Atique, Careers Lead
- Terri Harper, Head of 6th Form
- 01895 43 77 99
- info@moorcroftschool.co.uk
