Bananas & Lego for Year 9 Career Skills Day

Year 9 enjoyed a Career Skills Day, with local employers delivering their advice and developing transferable skills

Our annual Career Skills Day for Year 9 was once again well attended by a range of local employers from pharmaceutical to IT and financial solutions this year. We also had representatives from engineering, construction and large brand retail. In some of the classrooms, the focus turned to Lego and bananas as our local businesses engaged our Year 9 in fun and interactive Career skills sessions. Employers from a wide array of sectors provided Year 9 pupils with ideas on industries they may want to investigate post 16. Pupils were given the opportunity to develop essential skills through games and activities. Lego and bananas were even used as props to boost transferable skills of communication, team working and creative thinking! Year 9 enjoyed meeting new people from our local community, listening to their career journeys and finding out the different steps they may take from our dedicated Careers Counsellor.

Many thanks to our local corporates who gave up their time to run the event. Tesco, PayPoint, Computacenter, Roche and Morgan Sindall all contributed with their expertise and provided valuable links to our school.