Career-Industry Talks

Autumn Term 2019

Please click on the careers in bold for further information:

• Thursday 21st November - A career in the Army
• Thursday 10th October - A career in law
• Thursday 26th September - A career in nursing
• Thursday 12th September - A career in finance

Spring Term 2020

• Thursday 9th January - A career as a pilot
• Thursday  23rd January - A career in Film
• Thursday 6th February - A career in Art
• Wednesday 4th March - A career as an Author

Careers Cafe

The Careers Cafe is open every other Thursday from 3.55pm to 4.55pm in the Careers Office. Anybody wishing to discuss work experience or careers can just turn up. It may be particularly useful for those in Year 9 making decisions about their GCSE options or for Year 10 and Year 12 students looking at work experience options. This term the cafe will be open on:

Thursday 16th January 2020
Thursday 30th January 2020
Thursday 13th January 2020
Thursday 5th March 2020

Careers and Work Related Learning

Students at Gordon’s School can expect a wide variety of activities to enhance their Careers and Work Related Education. There are fortnightly careers talks and careers cafe, appointments with our Careers Adviser - Mark Anderson, CV workshops, careers fairs and many other activities. Careers education starts in Year 7, and continues until students leave us in Year 13. Year 10 and Year 12 students also have the opportunity to complete work experience in the last week of the Summer Term.

Click here for a summary of the Careers Programme. Students, parents, teachers and employers may also access further information and arrange appointments by contacting the Careers Lead directly.  The Careers Leader is in school during the week and can provide tailored information, advice and guidance relating to the post-16 options available to students. To book an appointment to see the Careers Lead, please telephone or email Ms Sims directly using the contact details below.  
 

To find out which career best suits your personality, free psychological tests are available through 123test.com. Once you've found it, please click on one of the widgets below for Labour Market Information (LMI) on that career.

MEASURING AND ACCESSING THE CAREERS PROGRAMME ON STUDENTS

Gordon's measures and accesses its careers programme against the Gatsby Benchmarks. The impact is accessed through student and parent feedback as well as a feedback card. The programme is conducted in relation to the school's equal opportunities policy, work experience policy, external visits policy and other relevant policies. 

Can you help?

We are always looking for innovative ways to improve our careers programme, If you would like to be involved with the careers programme at Gordon’s or know someone at your workplace who could be of any assistance please contact:

Careers Lead: Ms Caroline Sims - csims@gordons.school - 01276 858084 x 2403
Independent careers advisor: Mr Mark Anderson - manderson@gordons.school - 01276 858084 x 2403
Link Governor for Careers: Mr Alan McClafferty

Investor in Careers Award

The Quality in Careers Standard is designed as a development and external assessment framework for accrediting the highest quality CEIAG provision by education providers. Investor in Careers supports educational providers to meet the National Quality in Careers Standard through our unique 3 stage approach which focuses on Commitment, Organisation, Delivery and Evaluation. Our approach to meeting the national Standards supports schools to deliver effective CEIAG, meet statutory and Ofsted inspection requirements and improve their student’s life chances.

For more information about this award, please click here.

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