Y12 ‘Careers Fortnight’

Category: Careers & Enterprise, News, Speakers

Between 4-15th November, we held our Year 12 ‘Careers Fortnight’. The aim of this fortnight was to provide Year 12 students with resources and information to help them to make more informed decisions about what they might wish to do post 18, whether it is university, an apprenticeship scheme, a gap year or employment.

Activities included a trip to Sheffield University, where students attended a talk about how to choose a university, tour of the university campus and a sample lecture. Students had the opportunity to take part in a workshop with PwC delivered by one of our ex-students, Holly. It was lovely to see Holly again and hear how she had entered the PwC programme as a Maths undergraduate. We also welcomed a number of visitors into school, who kindly volunteered their time to offer practice 1:1 interviews for each student in Year 12. These interviews help prepare them for university, part time work and ultimately interviews into their career profession of the future. We had various careers speakers invited into assemblies to talk about apprenticeships, employability skills, interview skills and visualisation. Ex-students spoke about their particular pathways and students were able to attend careers talks in lessons and at lunchtimes.

Thank you to all of those who were involved in making this a worthwhile programme.

“We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . . using technologies that haven’t been invented . . . in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.”