Futures: Careers Education Information Advice & Guidance CEIAG
We aim to develop students who are:
- Aspirational and understand how to maximise learning opportunities to access appropriate and sustained progression routes
- Inquisitive about a wide range of jobs/careers in order to stimulate and support their own career investigations
- Demonstrate the employability skills and resilience to thrive in the ever-changing modern working world
In line with our core values, our aim is to provide an ambitious and progressive offer that supports our students to meet the changing needs/demands of the workplace. Through the use of the 8 Gatsby Career benchmarks and the CDI framework we regularly review our provision, with the support of the local careers hub, to develop our programme of activities.
We aim to inspire all George Spencer students to demonstrate the confidence and resilience to compete for aspirational careers across the globe. Students are encouraged to maximise their engagement within and beyond the classroom. Our approach to careers and employability is to equip all students, Yr7-13, with the tools necessary to make well informed choices at different transition points in their current and future learning. Staff are always on hand to support families at any stage.
How is this achieved?
- Form Time Learning – sessions where students build their skills and knowledge (career exploration, career self-development, career management)
- Curriculum learning – faculties regularly bring learning to life by linking knowledge and/or skills to the working world
- Excellence days – time away form the regular school timetable to provide focused support on a wide range of skills.
- Google Classroom – appropriate opportunities and events are shared via the ‘Careers & Employability’ section of cohort classrooms
- Online platform – every student has a personalised UNIFROG account in order to support the management of their career learning.
- Personal guidance – we use Luminate Careers to support the delivery of personalised student support
- Bespoke events – these include National Apprenticeship Week and National Careers Week
Destinations
| George Spencer Destinations % | All leavers in July 2025 | GirlsGirls | Boys | All leavers in July 2024 |
| Sustained Destination | 99.62 | 99.05 | 100 | 98.54 |
| Continued in Education in School | 37.4 | 39.6 | 37.04 | 41.61 |
| College or Further Education | 56.1 | 56.4 | 54.07 | 50 |
| Training – Not employed | 0.72 | Suppressed | 1.48 | 4.74 |
| Employment with planned training | 5.4 | 3.05 | 7.41 | 0.73 |
| Employment without planned training | Suppressed | Suppressed | Suppressed | Suppressed |
| Not in Education, Employment or Training | Suppressed | Suppressed | Suppressed | Suppressed |
Curriculum
Our curriculum offer is designed to prepare students for making informed decisions at key transition points. Opportunities to build knowledge and skills through Personal Development sessions and wider curriculum offer. Below are the curriculum maps for each cohort.
We actively encourage parents/carers to discuss the working world at every opportunity with their child(ren). Building links with the workplace helps students to link their skills and knowledge with real life applications. For further information and support, please click here https://www.skillsforcareers.education.gov.uk/pages/parent-advice-and-resources
We aim for all students to make well informed choices as they transition between the Key Stages. Awareness and understanding of all possible options are therefore important. Students are supported throughout these processes by their Learning Manager and Pastoral team. Below is a selection of resources that you may find useful.
Information of the local labour market is vital to raise students’ awareness of trends in a rapidly changing world. Knowledge of growth or shrinkage within a sector may better inform potential career opportunities. The LMI updates below have been provided by the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA)
We are always keen to expand our links with employers, colleges and training providers. Statistics show that such interactions have a major impact on students sustaining their chosen progression route. Quality interactions with the workplace are essential to unlocking the potential in our future workforce. There are a range of ways in which you can volunteer, based around your availability, to help shape the lives of our students. If you would like to get involved, or just to learn more, then please do get in touch.
Throughout a student’s journey at George Spencer there are opportunities to develop employability skills and experiences of the workplace through our excellence day programme. This includes; employability skills such as CV writing, interview techniques and communication skills and virtual work experience opportunities with the NHS, GSK and CACI.
Our Year 9 cohort take part in a ‘Take Your Child To Work Day’ during the summer term. Students do this with a parent/carer, family relative or family friend. This provides a short but essential opportunity to understand key working practices.
Our Year 11 students all have the opportunity to take part in a mock interview with a local employer. This helps to build upon the soft skills developed in earlier excellence days and give students the confidence to enter the labour market and be successful in gaining employment.
A formal week of work experience is supported and planned with our Year 12 students. Students get to fully immerse themselves in a workplace to better understand how their skills and areas of interest fit into a working environment. Another key aspect to this is the enhancement of essential skills (often referred to as ‘soft’ skills) through workplace opportunities.
Outside of these opportunities we encourage students to engage with the growing range of virtual placements available. Although these are not ‘face to face’ experiences, they allow opportunities that might not be locally available. Please click here to explore the options (Springpod). We highly recommend students in researching and completing virtual work experience activities to help build their skill base and knowledge of potential careers linked to what they are learning within their curriculum.
*We are working with the updated government legislation to amend policy in line with the new requirements. Parents/carers will be updated in due course*
UNIFROG is a personalised careers platform. Each student can access their account via their academy details (‘sign in with Microsoft’). There are a range of tools to support career explorations and wider workplace learning.
Career learning is best achieved when a variety of sources can be easily compared. For ease we have brought a range of information together here (see the links below).
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