Activities

Careers Café Talks

We have a number of careers talks across the year and will update students and parents/carers when these are scheduled.

Careers at Court Moor

We deliver careers education in a variety of ways:

• PSHE Curriculum (Yrs 7-8)

  • General introduction to careers information and choices including registration and training on START website, a careers based learning platform
  • Job study: An opportunity to look at option choices and possible career paths/choices
  • Financial Awareness: Using the ‘Real Game’ to explore jobs, leisure time and work life balance.
  • Employability skills
• Programme of STEM clubs with external speakers and school visits to companies
• Specific careers related trips, taster days and programmes for small groups.
• 1-2-1 Career advisor meetings (on request), mandatory at Year 11
• Options briefings to explain about vocational and academic choices
• College and Apprentice talks
• Post 16 choices workshops, transition, application advice
• Career focussed assemblies with outside speakers
• Activities week, to include employability skills such as team working and enterprise skills.
• Programme of Career workshops presented by visiting speakers
• Interview Day for Year 10 - practice interviews with external visiting business representatives, CV writing workshops, and Interview techniques
• Work Experience week for Year 10 students
• University visits and presentations
• Promotion of National Citizen Service and Duke of Edinburgh Scheme

A timeline of planned activities can be found at the document link below.