Careers Programme
The CEIAG – (Careers Education Information Advice Guidance) provision in a Delta Academy has been designed to positively support you to acquire the educational, social and employability skills necessary for lifelong success in a diverse and changing world of work. Our Careers Programme is personalised to the academy in conjunction with our partners at Progress Careers.
Careers Education and is provided though:
- Subject Lessons, – Information and discussions in with a subject specific focus to help you make decisions about careers based on subject knowledge and transferable skills.
- Tutorials, Assemblies & Life Lessons – Discussions and resources about the local market information, growth job sectors and
- Step Up Days – Events such as employability days
Information, Advice & Guidance is provided through:
- Careers Cafes & Careers Fairs – Employers, Colleges and Universities will visit the school on a regular basic to talk to you about their industry and how to train and qualify for role in that sector.
- Careers Portal – You have access to our online Careers Portal.
- Results Service – a team of advisers will be able to talk through you needs on results day to help you confirm your intended destination.
- Qualified 1-2-1 Guidance – You also have access to a qualified careers advisor, who will provide confidential and impartial advice to students on the information they have received or to help guide students to make fully informed decisions.
- Planning for the future – if you have a career idea but want to find out the best route for you or if you have no career ideas our advisers can help you create career ideas around your interests and skills.
- GCSE & A Level Options – Choosing your options and what would best suit you.
- Apprenticeships – Finding work or an apprenticeship, including job hunting techniques including mock interviews
- Parents Evenings – Access to careers advisers in a variety of ways including individual meetings, drop-in sessions, enrichment activities, parents and option evenings and on results days
- Technology – Information and updates will also be available on notice boards, plasma screens and the websites
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As a Trust, we have key aims to ensure the life chances of our pupils. These are to raise the aspirations of our pupils and to engage their parents, carers and families in this process.
Learners will have the opportunity to interact with Employers, Colleges, Universities, UTCs, Apprenticeship and T Level Providers, and services from across the region. This is the chance for our learners to ask the important questions for their next steps, curriculum choices for GCSE, A Level and careers and destinations at Post 16 and 18.
Careers & Provider Access Policy & Destinations Data
Careers Provision and Provider Access Policy
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The CEIAG (Careers Education Information Advice Guidance) provision has been designed to positively support pupils to acquire the emotional, social and employability skills necessary for lifelong success in a diverse and changing world of work. Our careers programme is developed in conjunction with our partners at Careers Inc. We also work alongside Careers Inc. to ensure the highest standards of CEIAG is delivered. This also helps us ensure that we are fully up to date with new initiatives and meeting the needs of every pupil. We review the Gatsby benchmarks regularly with the Careers and Enterprise Company.
All pupils in every year are given access to CEIAG opportunities. In Year 7 and 8 we provide opportunities through tutor times, trips and visits. Year 9 pupils participate in an employability day provided by our Enterprise Advisor (Howden’s Joinery), which allows them to improve their interview and employability skills. As a follow up, a number of pupils are then given the opportunity to visit Howden’s to see how a local employer operates on a daily basis. All pupils in Year 10 attend a series of College Taster days which allows them to make informed choices on their destinations after Year 11. All Year 11 receive at least one careers interview and have access to more should they need. Tutor time activities also complement the CEIAG offer across the Academy, with activities such as ‘personal qualities and strengths’ being delivered during his period. In every classroom, there is also a display linking how each curriculum area can lead to specific professions and Higher Education options. Our Careers Inc. Advisor has a dedicated room which pupils can access for drop in lunchtime sessions – these are advertised weekly through Tutor times and available to all pupils.
We are extremely fortunate to have great links with The Humber Outreach Partnership (HOP), which is funded by the National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP). This really supports our CEIAG offer at the Academy. Activities delivered by HOP have included visits to University (including residentials), one to one coaching and target setting and visits to local Higher Education Colleges to access their state of the art facilities.
Pupils in all year groups gain employer encounters through a Careers Fair, which takes place in the summer term. This is a very popular and accessible way for Higher Education providers, employers and organisations such as the armed forces to come into the Academy and speak informally with pupils. In addition to this there are numerous other, more bespoke opportunities throughout the year such as a Virtual Work Experience programme delivered by Siemens.
A small number of pupils who are identified as being at risk of NEET are also scheduled additional meetings with the local Job Centre team to ensure the development of a personalised pathway. We are very proud of the fact that we have maintained excellent NEET figures throughout the pandemic with over 99% of our students moving on to Further Education, Employment or Training.
Motivational speakers are invited into the academy to deliver inspirational sessions. An example of this is Moj Taylor who leads a “PUSH Talk”, each year to a variety of year groups. The talks includes topics on pupil finance, myth busting, courses and accommodation.
We are proud of our links with BAE Systems. Our Engineering department have established strong links with BAE which allows bespoke visits for Engineering cohorts. This also ensures curriculum links can be made within the world of work. This has been a great success and pupils within our Academy are now receiving apprenticeship offers from this provider.
There’s so many choices of great things to do after your time at Goole Academy.
Click the image to learn more about your different choices. This information is also available in the documents section at the bottom of the page.
How do you decide on a career path? Check our our handy guide below!
If you have more questions about how to choose the right career path, visit the Progress Careers. website
For further guidance on careers, click the links below:
Delta Academies use the CDI (Career Development Institute) and their new career development learning framework and topic 3 of the PSHE Association Programme of Study to build our Careers Programmes.
Our CEIAG & Provider Access Policy gives an overview of the programme for each year group. A more detailed programme can be found below.
Gatsby Benchmarks
Our planned programmes support students and ensure they receive the relevant careers education, information, advice and guidance that is suitable for their age and ability by implementation of the 8 Gatsby Career Benchmarks, written by Sir John Holman, a former Headteacher and founder of the National STEM Learning Centre.
Sir John wrote the Good Career Guidance Report after carrying out extensive research.
The fast-changing world of work puts an ever-greater demand on all of us to support students in making a successful transition from education to employment, helping them to identify and choose career opportunities that are right for them.
The government’s new careers strategy set out a plan for building a high-quality careers system that will help young people to achieve. The Gatsby Benchmarks are a key measure of the effectiveness of career guidance and provision – Delta Academies Trust is committed to achieving all eight benchmarks:
- 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
For an overview of how we and our CEIAG partners embed the 8 benchmarks into our Careers Programme, please see the attached documents below: