Careers Information
Careers at Woodhouse Academy
Careers education is an important part of our Curriculum at Woodhouse Academy. A stable careers programme allows us to promote pupils’ aspirational expectations and prepare pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities, and experiences of adult life. High-quality careers education is important for our pupils’ futures, and our provision aims to:
- Help pupils prepare for the workplace, by building self-development and career management skills
- Increase awareness of job possibilities and foster broader aspirations
- Encourage students to recognise how their strengths and attributes align with workplace skills
- Provide some experience and understanding of the working world
- Develop pupils’ awareness of the variety of education, training and careers opportunities available to them
- Help pupils to understand their next step in education (transition to year 9)
- Take into account the individual needs of all pupils to tailor the programme accordingly and provide the right level of support
- Promote a culture of high aspirations and equality of opportunity
Our careers programme
Our school has an embedded careers programme that aims to inform and encourage pupils to consider their career options, and take steps to understand their skills, choices and pathways.
Our careers programme is delivered through a number of methods, including:
- By subject teachers in their lessons
- By PSHE teachers as discrete lessons
- Careers events
- Careers assemblies
- Visitors
- Careers education aspect of all trips
All subjects have specific careers education learning objectives to meet when delivering careers in the curriculum as below:
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Autumn Term |
ü Recognise a range of local jobs associated with the curriculum area ü Recognise a range of jobs associated with the curriculum area, giving examples from the wider context ü Identify the typical roles and responsibilities of the associated jobs |
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Spring Term |
ü Understand how skills developed in the curriculum area link to general employability skills for any job ü Explain how skills developed in the curriculum area link to roles and responsibilities of subject-related jobs ü Explain how ‘employability skills’ would benefit you in subject-related jobs |
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Summer Term |
ü Understand key aspects of the labour market ü Describe pathways into subject-specific jobs ü Explain possible next steps in education to improve chance of employment in relevant areas. |
Careers learning is embedded across the curriculum. The below are just some examples of how this is done in each year group:
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