Careers
Careers at Tytherington
All students are entitled to access careers guidance enabling them to assess their capabilities and aptitudes, research and plan their career paths to maximise their potential to achieve their careers goals.
At Tytherington School, we believe that everyone can achieve and that all of our pupils should be ambitious their future lives. We will provide all pupils with support in deciding upon their future career pathway. Mrs Brennan, Assistant Headteacher, leads careers education in the school:
cbrennan@tytheringtonschool.co.uk
Delivery through a planned tutor time programme, Personal Development lessons, assemblies and specialist events; aims to help students understand the relationship between their own employability skills and the needs of the local labour market, whilst facilitating to students to make informed decisions linked to their careers journey.
The statutory guidance from the DfE regarding career related learning has the long term vision for a world class careers provision and states that schools should be using the Gatsby Benchmarks as a framework to develop and improve practice. We are committed to meeting these benchmarks.
- A stable career programme
- Learning from career and labour market information
- Addressing the needs of each pupil
- Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Encounters with employers and employees
- Experience of workplaces
- Encounters with further and higher education
- Personal guidance
We measure the schools progress on this via the Compass+ tool, as this allows for regular monitoring and implementation of good practice.
High-quality careers guidance is important for our pupils’ futures, and our provision aims to:
- Help pupils prepare for the workplace, by building self-development and career management
skills - Provide experience and a clear understanding of the working world
- Develop pupils’ awareness of the variety of education, training and careers opportunities available to them
- Help pupils to understand routes to careers that they’re interested in, and to make informed choices about their next step in education or training
- Promote a culture of high aspirations and equality of opportunity
- As a school, we welcome the opportunity for our students to find out about technical education qualifications, apprenticeship opportunities and university prospects. We encourage our local education and training providers to visit the school and engage with all our year groups.
For more information, please find our provider access policy on the policies page. - If you wish to arrange a visit, please contact our Careers Leader Caroline Brennan cbrennan@tytheringtonschool.co.uk
By having a structured programme of events, monitoring and evaluation allows us to ensure the quality of our provision and this informs our future programme planning.
Monitoring activities adopted by Tytherington School are:
- Learning walks
- Surveys – students, staff, parents & carers, external agencies
- Student voice
Evaluation activities are used to measure the impact of our careers programme and inform planning of future events.
Evaluation activities adopted by Tytherington School are:
- Analysis of whole school careers tracking
- Feedback from personal guidance interviews
- learning walks
- Surveys – students, staff, parents & carers, external agencies
- Student voice
- Destination data
Our Careers Policy documents can be found either on our policies page or statutory information page under the policies section.
The documents to look out for are,
- CEIAG Policy
- CEIAG Provider Access Statement.