Back to Back Careers Events for Key Stage 3

Year 8 and Year 9 engage in Careers events: Career Skills Days and our annual Work Shadowing

“Back to back” events were co-ordinated at the end of term for Careers with our Year 8 Work Shadowing Day and the Year 9 engaging in a Career Skills morning with local businesses on Monday 31 March.

Year 8 were out and about in the local business communities enjoying seeing what their relatives do for a living. Most joined their family to see what they got up to in their working days. This is an important introduction to the world of work for our pupils as they see the shape of a working day and experience the different types of roles in the outside world.

In Life Skills lessons and via Careers assemblies, they are encouraged to think about the transferable skills seen in the workplace and how they can develop them. They are also tasked on asking some interesting questions of their hosts, from ‘why did you choose this career’ to top tips for working effectively in a workplace.

While Year 8 were out and about, Year 9 were treated to some local business visitors. We ran a Careers Skills conference for the morning at school. Business visitors included: Tesco, Computacenter, Roche, Paypoint and they looked at how to apply for roles for example what a CV is and an interview. They also focused on key skills they look for in employees such as communication and team working. Presentations and interactive tasks were the order of the day. A busy time for career skills building!

Mrs Higgins, Career Lead