Careers Aims and Provisions
Careers Aims and Provisions
Aims:
All students at Cranbrook school undertake a programme of careers education and development. The Careers programme follows the CEC Equalex Framework approach (Introduce & Inspire; Investigate & Explore; Apply & Demonstrate) and seeks to maximise interaction with a range of alumni, employers and employees to enable students to leave with a clear understanding and ability to navigate their career journeys.
Provision:
- All students have access to an excellent programme of advice and guidance delivered by professionals with appropriate skills and experience.
- All students are shown how to use relevant and current labour market information (LMI) to understand the full range of careers available to them, and how their knowledge and skills can help them in considering suitable careers.
- All students are given opportunities to learn from employers about work and workplace skills, and get practical experiences of a work environment.
- All students are offered 1-1 careers guidance which is tailored to their individual skills, needs and aspirations.
Our careers provision is fully evaluated termly using the Careers and Enterprise Company Compass+ tool. This analyses and evaluates our careers programme against the 8 Gatsby benchmarks of good career guidance, which are mandatory markers set out by the government:
- A stable careers programme
- Learning from career and labour market information
- Addressing the needs of each pupil
- Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Encounters with employers and employees
- Experiences of workplaces
- Encounters with further and higher education
- Personal guidance
Cranbrook takes a whole-school approach to Careers Education, with all subjects highlighting and developing employability skills and career awareness during curriculum delivery. This is augmented by with additional elements including:
- Careers, Business and Enterprise topics delivered through PSHE lessons & tutorials
- Regular ‘Futures’ publication with information, links, opportunities about careers, work experience, webinars, Blogs, Vlogs, HE, FE, Apprenticeships, 16+ options
- Presentations from external speakers representing further and higher education, employers, apprenticeships
- Workplace visits, work shadowing and work experience opportunities
- Personal Guidance Sessions as appropriate with a qualified Careers Advisor