Ceiag Programme

Careers, Education, Information, Advice and Guidance lessons are designed to help students make well-informed and realistic decisions at key points in their education. At SJNGC our students will cover:

Year 7: Introduction to Careers

Aims:

To raise awareness of a wide range of careers and pathways.
To identify personal traits, strengths and skills.
To develop confidence and have expectations of themselves and for their futures

Learning outcomes:

Students can list a wide range of careers and pathways. Students can identify personal traits, strengths and skills.
Student can identify a range of ambitions which align with their interests and preferences.
Students can explain what is meant by LMI, how it can be useful and are able to interpret basic LMI.

Year 8: Options and Opportunities

Aims:

To prepare for GCSE options considering how these link to future careers pathways and progression routes.
To explain the importance of STEM subjects and their importance to a wide range of careers.
To link curriculum subjects to careers and use this knowledge to inform their GCSE option choices.

Learning outcomes:

Students have a clear action plan for their KS4 transition and beyond; considering what they might like to achieve when they leave CVEA.
Students build on personal strengths and begin to link skills to specific careers enabling realistic and informed decisions at transition stages.
Students can link curriculum subjects to careers.
Students can explain the importance of STEM subjects to a range of careers.
Students can identify and challenge stereotyping and discrimination.
Students can make informed decisions to support their GCSE option choices.

Year 9: Routes to Success

Aims:

To be able to use LMI in career planning.
To be able to describe key employability skills.
To recognise the skills and qualities developed in and out of school which will make them employable.
Gain experience of how to do a job interview

Learning outcomes:

Students can identify key trends in local, regional, national and global labour markets.
Students can identify key employment sectors in Leicester
Students are able to access LMI independently.
Students assess personal strengths and focus on transferable skills.
Students investigate different jobs and careers and what they mean in terms of lifestyle; work/life balance.
Students complete a mock interview with an employer.

Year 10: The World of Work

Aims:

To gain experience of the world of work.
To explore what a CV is and how it can open doors for you.
To explain and evidence how they are developing their employability skills.

Learning outcomes:

Students have a least one meaningful experience of a workplace.
Students explore post 16 pathways.
Students can explain and evidence how employability skills are being developed and demonstrated.
Students can describe rights and responsibilities in the workplace.
Students can produce a Curriculum Vitae

Year 11: Future Pathways

Aims:

To make well-informed realistic choices for post 16 transition.
To be able to link post 16 pathways to progression routes and future careers.
To have an appropriate intended destination.

Learning outcomes:

Students can identify post 16 pathways.
Students can describe the advantages and disadvantages of each post 16 pathway.
Students can explain how post 16 pathways align to their interests and future careers.
Students are able to link their post 16 options to future careers including the best progressions routes through to specific goals.
Students have a completed CV and cover letter.