GATSBY

Gatsby Benchmarks 2018

Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance Vision

At Swinton Academy, we endeavour to work towards The Gatsby Good Practice Benchmarks, the DFE Careers Guidance and other good practice guidance from the Department of Education, Ofsted and relevant bodies.

The Swinton Academy Careers Offer

The six key elements underpinning the Swinton Academy careers offer are documented below.  Each key element is twinned with the eight Gatsby Benchmarks of good career guidance.  These benchmarks, now part of the government careers strategy, are viewed as a measurement to define world-class career guidance.

 

1. Gatsby Benchmark 8. Personal guidance.
   Gatsby Benchmark 3. Addressing the needs of each pupil

 

Every young person in the academy should have access to impartial, independent and personalised career education, information, advice. Students and parents/carers are encouraged to book individual careers guidance appointments with our professionally qualified in-house advisor, Sarah Sykes.  Our careers calendar detailing careers and enterprise events along with our careers/enterprise partners can be viewed on the website.

 

2. Gatsby Benchmark 1. A stable careers programme

 

Swinton Academy has a governor, member of the leadership team and careers advisor with designated oversight for ensuring that the institution supports all students to relate their learning to careers and the world of work from an early age.

 

3. Gatsby Benchmark 2. Learning from career and labour market information.

 

Swinton Academy has up-to-date, user-friendly labour market intelligence/information (LMI) readily accessible to young people, teachers and parents/carers.  This includes use of U-Explore and up-to-date employment market information  (see pdf on website).

https://careersyandh.co.uk/Inspiringyandh/iyh pages/job market information/3

 

4. Gatsby Benchmark 6. Experiences of workplaces
   Gatsby Benchmark 5. Encounters with employers and employees

 

Every young person in the academy will have the opportunity to meet employers to support their knowledge and experience of career pathway options. This may include career insights from industry experts, work tasters, coaching, mentoring, enterprise activities, part-time work, work shadowing and other relevant activities.

 

5. Gatsby Benchmark 6. Experiences of workplaces
   Gatsby Benchmark 7. Encounters with further and higher education

 

Swinton Academy is a member of the Sheffield City Region’s Careers and Enterprise network and works with an Enterprise Coordinator from The Source Skills Academy. (http://www.enterpriseadviserscr.org.uk). The Source Skills Academy at Meadowhall is a flagship centre providing state-of-the-art training, development and conferencing facilities for all sectors of the local community and local businesses in South Yorkshire, including Sheffield, Barnsley and Rotherham. The source offers opportunities for our students to have encounters with employers and other providers.  The academy will provide a record that our students are given numerous experiences to help them become work-ready and that employers can be confident that they have been given support in terms of career guidance and work-related learning.

 

6. Gatsby Benchmark 4. Linking curriculum learning to careers.

 

The quality of careers provision in the academy will be strengthened by developing ‘careers hubs’ in the region to share resources in improving awareness of the local employment market and the wider region’s employment market, and is designed to support other school and college leaders in a whole-school approach to planning and deliver careers provision.

Careers Education Information Advice and Guidance.

The Careers Information, Advice & Guidance Education programme at Swinton Academy enables our students to make a successful transition into their chosen pathway.

Students have access to a range of career support delivered through a variety of ways. All students will have a one-to-one guidance appointment; students can request a guidance appointment at any time throughout their academic life.  Students will be offered support at key transition points, such as Year 9 options, Year 11 progression planning. Parents/carers are able to attend appointments and careers guidance specialists and the website will be updated regularly with useful links and articles relating to careers for our students.

Targeted support for Vulnerable and Disadvantaged students

The academy will seek to quickly identify students who are in need of targeted support or who are at risk of not participating in further studies after year 11, becoming NEET (not in education, employment or training). Targeted students receive additional in-college support on career options, pathways (Apprenticeships, College etc.) and application help.

Specific cohorts of students, such as pupil premium students, receive carefully targeted advice and access to other career-related programmes such as university visits, college visits and other appropriate support.

 

SEND Students support

The academy seeks to understand the interests, strengths and motivations of students and use this to support students onto a pathway that supports their development and progression.

Independent and impartial advice and guidance for young people with SEN and disabilities will include information about all the options available to them, including education, training and employment opportunities, and will signpost them on to the most relevant pathway.  This includes work skills programmes, work experience, traineeships, apprenticeships and qualifications that will enable students to apply for higher education, where appropriate.

 

Swinton Academy:  Provider Access Policy

Introduction

This policy statement sets out the school’s arrangements for managing the access of providers to pupils at the school for the purpose of giving them information about the provider’s education or training offer. This complies with the school’s legal obligations under Section 42B of the Education Act 1997.

Pupil entitlement

All pupils in years 7-13 are entitled:

• to find out about technical education qualifications and apprenticeships

opportunities, as part of a careers programme which provides information on the

full range of education and training options available at each transition point.

• to hear from a range of local providers about the opportunities they offer, including

technical education and apprenticeships – through options events, assemblies

and group discussions and taster events.

• to understand how to make applications for the full range of academic and

technical courses.

Management of provider access requests

Procedure

A provider wishing to request access should contact Mrs Chela Wilson, Associate Principal

Telephone:  01709 570586    

Email: cwilson@swintonacademy.org

Careers Leader: Sarah Rhodes,  Assistant Vice-Principal srhodes@swintonacademy.org

 

Opportunities for access

Several events, integrated into the school careers programme, will offer providers an opportunity to come into school to speak to pupils and/or their parents/carers. See the school website for information.

Please speak to our Principal Chela Wilson to identify the most suitable opportunity for you.

Premises and facilities

The school will make the main hall, classrooms, or private meeting rooms available for discussions between the provider and students, as appropriate to the activity. The school will also make available AV and other specialist equipment to support provider presentations. This will all be discussed and agreed in advance of the visit with the

Careers Leader or a member of their team.

Providers are welcome to leave a copy of their prospectus or other relevant course literature at the Careers Resource Centre, which is managed by the school librarian. The Resource Centre is available to all students at lunch and break times.

New compliance guidance from January 2023

Year 7 are offered the opportunity to meet with a careers advisor and will have mandatory assemblies on pathways and careers options.

Below outlined the key opportunities available to students regarding technical or apprenticeship information. For each event parents and pupils will be informed about the provider and what they offer via a weblink within the letter. Also, careers linked to the technical opportunities and what qualifications are needed and a description of what learning or training might lead to. This is supported by information about the colleges, inspection reports and overall grading.

The amended Baker Clause establishes a set of clear definitions for each “key phase” of a student’s education:

Two encounters for pupils during the ‘first key phase’ (year 8 or 9) that are mandatory for all pupils to attend 

• Two encounters for pupils during the ‘second key phase’ (year 10 or 11) that are mandatory for all pupils to attend 
• Two encounters for pupils during the ‘third key phase’ (year 12 or 13) that are mandatory for the school to put on but optional for pupils to attend 

A provider, to whom access is given, must deliver an encounter that includes the following:​

• Information about the provider and the approved technical education qualifications or apprenticeships that the provider offers​
• Information about the careers to which those technical education qualifications or apprenticeships might lead​
• A description of what learning or training with the provider is like​
• Responses to questions from the pupils about the provider or approved technical education qualifications and apprenticeships.​

Pupil entitlement All pupils in years 7 to 13 are entitled:

To find out about technical education qualifications and apprenticeships opportunities, as part of a careers programme which provides information on the full range of education and training options available at each transition point.

To hear from a range of local providers about the opportunities they offer, including technical education and apprenticeships – through options events, assemblies and group discussions and taster events.

To understand how to make applications for the full range of academic and technical courses.

Complimentary careers opportunities

 

Target group	Careers and work-related education activities including financial capability, enterprise and employability	Careers information, advice and guidance
Year 7	Introduction to careers exploration Development of aspirations, self-awareness and personal development through a varied and inspiring programme of project week activities  Introduction to STEM Careers Assemblies Careers Day transition activity September HT1 – introduction to careers	Access to 1:1 Careers Adviser or personal support in Compass through referral by staff, parents, HoY or tutors. Access to employer visits and careers club lunch times or after school External providers delivering STEM sessions and project week activities
Year 8	Year 8 Careers lesson (intro to careers provision, decision making/informed choice, gender stereotyping) Work shadowing day Project Week activities Introduction to STEM Careers Assemblies	1:1 support for SEN and PP students to support Option Choices.  1:1 support following referrals by HoY, LSM or tutors Access to employer visits and careers club lunch times or after school External providers delivering STEM sessions and project week activities
Year 9	Careers Fair and access to employer visits GCSE options Work wise GUTS Year 9 Options Evening Introduction to HE and Post 16 Pathways and benefits of university and apprenticeships Apprenticeship week Careers Week	Full time Careers Adviser in school Individual careers information, advice, and guidance for students 1:1 support for SEN and PP students to support Option Choices.  Annual Review with transition focus Careers adviser supporting project week Careers Plan Alumni talks and workshops on option choices External providers delivering STEM sessions and project week activities
Year 10	Health & Safety in the Workplace Work Experience placements 1:1 CIAG appointments for selected students College Taster days EHCP, PP and vulnerable transition support Introduction to Apprenticeships Introduction to Armed Forces Careers Careers Day University visit Apprenticeship visits RNN College visits	Work experience support for vulnerable or disadvantaged students.  Careers Adviser in school – students given opportunity to meet Individual careers information, advice, and guidance for students. Alumni talks and workshops in prep for employment
Year 11	Careers interviews for all Year 11 students Post 16 small-group sessions Assemblies from local FE, 6th Form and Apprenticeship providers – Post 16 Transition Apprenticeship group work and support Careers Fair Student and Parent College information evening Mock Interviews Higher Education Awareness – visits and assemblies Alumni assembly Careers talks from Employers – LMI, STEM	Individual careers information, advice and guidance for all Y11 students by CA in school Transition support and guidance SEND PP and vulnerable groups extensive support from CA, LSM, HoY and SR Application form guidance and support by CA and external providers Interview preparation in project week Interview support Alumni events External providers delivering STEM sessions and project week activities

 

Any provider wishing to access or provide IAG to our students as part of our careers programme will be supported by our teaching staff throughout their visit and never left unattended.  We will make available appropriate resources to support provider presentations, which will be discussed and agreed in advance to ensure material meets our quality assurances and security measures.

Our safeguarding/child protection policy outlines the school’s procedure for checking the identity and suitability of visitors.

Education and training providers will be required to adhere to this policy.

Providers are welcome to leave copies of their prospectuses or course literature and we will distribute them to relevant students and have them available in our career’s library.

Students can drop into our careers library to access this information or will be provided relevant information in their career’s guidance interviews.

We can promote and distribute details of careers and apprenticeship literature and vacancies to all relevant students and parents through direct Email and in our careers bulletin.

 

Approval and review

Approved [date] by Governors at Curriculum and Standards Committee

Next review: [date]

Signed: [name]

Chair of Governors David Lennox

Principal Mrs Chela WIlson