Careers Education at SWR (2022-23)
SLT overseeing careers: Tanith Lynham (t.lynham@swr.gloucs.sch.uk)
Careers Link Governor: Philippa Gray
Numerous opportunities are provided for SWR’s students related to careers during their time at SWR. Please see below what is explicitly offered to each year group. Additional sessions will also be delivered through tutor time, assemblies (with visiting guest speakers) and through the curriculum.
Appropriate Programmes used at SWR to support Careers Education include:
Career Pilot: https://www.careerpilot.org.uk/
ECLIPS Website: https://www.eclips-online.co.uk/
Icould: https://icould.com/
Students
Ensure that when you have been given log in details for the sites above that you store them safely.
Make the most of all of the opportunities on offer (as seen in the table above).
Frequently look through the following website https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/ with your parents/guardians and have discussions around careers.
Explore what options and routes are available to reach your career destination.
Keep all of your certificates and achievements safe, therefore when you need to write your CV or application forms you don’t forget about relevant achievements.
Parents/Carers
It is really important that from the beginning of year 7 and throughout your child’s time here at SWR you explore the National Careers Service Website discussing possible jobs and routes to those jobs (https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/). This will inform key decisions they make, especially in year 9 for options, year 10 for work experience and year 11 moving onto further education.
Employers
If you could be part of any of the activities outlined in the table above, whether that be an assembly, work experience placements, interview days, careers fair, drop down days please contact Tanith Lynham: t.lynham@swr.gloucs.sch.uk
Impact of the careers programme
The schools careers leader receives formal feedback in the first 2 terms from Prospects which details the destinations of all students from the last year 11 cohort. This information is used to track student destinations against their desired pathways to ensure that students are proceeding into their chosen pathway. This information is also reviewed by Governors who will be informed of any NEET students from the previous cohort.