ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC COLLEGE
Careers
The Careers programme at All Saints provides students with meaningful steps toward their future career and life after school. We aim to build our students' ambition and confidence to enable them to make informed choices about their future education and employment.
Our weekly PSHE lessons, alongside career-focused tutor time, external visitors, and relationships with the local community, ensure that our students develop holistically. Therefore, they leave us with the employability and study skills needed to be successful in the world of work.
Our Careers Lead is: Ms Houghton
Email: a.houghton@allsaintscc.org.uk
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Guidance for Parents and Students
Gatsby Benchmarks
Our Careers Programme is developed from the Gatsby Benchmarks and the Career Development Institutes’ ‘Framework for careers, employability and enterprise education.’ The eight Gatsby Benchmarks are:
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A stable careers programme 2.
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Learning from careers and labour market information
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Addressing the needs of each student
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Linking curriculum learning to careers
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Encounters with employers and employees
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Experiences of workplaces
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Encounters with further and higher education
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Personal guidance
Provider Access Legislation
The PAL asserts that schools with KS3 and KS4 cohorts must provide at least four encounters with approved providers of apprenticeships and technical education for all their students:
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Two encounters for pupils during the ‘first key phase’ (year 8 or 9) that are mandatory for all pupils to attend
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Two encounters for pupils during the ‘second key phase’ (year 10 or 11) that are mandatory for all pupils to attend
This legislation is a key mechanism to further help learners understand and take-up, not just apprenticeships, but wider technical education options such as T-Levels and Higher Technical Qualifications.
During Year 9, all students at All Saints will have had at least two encounters with approved providers of apprenticeships and technical education. This will be completed as part of the GCSE options process in the Trinity term. Our aim is to ensure students have considered their long term futures when making their GCSE choices.
During Year 10, all students at All Saints will have had at least two encounters with approved providers of apprenticeships and technical education. In addition, students will take part in a taster day at a local college, which offers technical qualifications.
During Year 11, all students at All Saints will have had at least four encounters with approved providers of apprenticeships and technical education. This will take place during many of their Michaelmas assemblies, as students prepare to apply for post-16 pathways.
Year 9 Options
In Year 9 you will get the chance to select the GCSEs you would like to take. You will get to choose some subjects, but there are some subjects you have to take. These are known as core subjects:
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English Language and English Literature
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Maths
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Combined Science or Triple Science (which covers physics, biology and chemistry)
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Religious Studies.
You can then pick three GCSE subjects you want to do in the following three areas:
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Creative Arts
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Humanities
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Modern foreign languages
It can help you to study a range of subject areas at this stage so you can find out more about what you like and have a wider range of study options when you make your next big choices at 16. You will need to get a grade 4 pass in English and maths. If you do not achieve at least grade 4 you will need to retake them while at a further education institution to achieve this grade if you need to.
Year 10 Work Experience
Every student in Year 10 will be offered the opportunity to undertake a one-week Work Experience programme during the Summer Term. Students will be briefed on the Work Experience Week, how to organise their placement and what will be expected from them during their placement.
Careerometer
Instructions: Click the dotted square.
Type in the first career that you think you might be interested in and select from the drop-down list, then add your second and third choice to see the comparison.
Instructions: Take the quiz, by reflecting on a number statements and decide what you love, are not sure about or dislike. The statements are presented within six well established occupational categories (Artistic, Realistic, Investigative, Conventional, Enterprising, and Social), which are then ranked against jobs. Once the quiz is complete a short list of job suggestions that are most likely to be suited to your own particular skills and interests will be provided. Each job can be explored as a description is presented together with information on pay and hours.
