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Endeavour Academy aims to inspire students to consider their future career aims and ambitions through a Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance programme (CEIAG), delivered by a mix of teacher led activities and online research using of relevant programmes. This offer is further enhanced by working in partnership with external employers and Careers professionals. We employ a fully qualified Level 6 Careers Adviser who is based at Endeavour Academy and who can be contacted should you require further information about our programme;
Careers Adviser – Miss Louise Brewer 0191 5185595
email: enquiries@endeavouracademy.co.uk
Endeavour Academy aims to inspire students to consider their future career aims and ambitions through a Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance programme (CEIAG), delivered by a mix of teacher led activities, meeting with visiting speakers and enrichment opportunities to allow them to develop employability skills. This offer is enhanced by working in partnership with external employers and Careers professionals.
Endeavour Academy has a dedicated Careers notice board which will clearly display progression path opportunities and contacts for relevant personnel.
Endeavour Academy aims to inspire students to consider their future career aims and ambitions through a Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance programme (CEIAG), delivered by a mix of teacher led activities, meeting with visiting speakers and enrichment opportunities to allow them to develop employability skills. This offer is enhanced by working in partnership with external employers and Careers professionals.
Endeavour Academy has a dedicated Careers notice board which will clearly display progression path opportunities and contacts for relevant personnel.
The Careers Lead in School is Miss Louise Brewer (Level 6). Students with Educational Health Care Plans also have access to support form Groundworks / Durham Works (Level 7) advisers who will attend transition and annual review meetings. Our Careers support continues when students leave Endeavour Academy, Miss Louise Brewer will remain in contact with students and parents and offer advice / guidance should this be required.
During your time with Endeavour Academy, you will be supported to explore the range of career options available through teaching of lessons such as PSHE, Careers Programme and Project Based Learning opportunities which will help prepare you to enter the world of work. You will be offered opportunities to engage in work-based learning and work experience and have visits to colleges and from local businesses and meetings with our Careers Adviser, all of which will better inform you of the opportunities available and ensure you are given the highest level of support in readiness for leaving Year 11. Our programmes will be evaluated, and you will be asked to feedback on your learning experiences to enable us to further improve our offer. Further information on careers education can be gained by speaking to your tutor.
An overview of our careers programme will be shared with all parents/carers at our induction meetings and re-visited at our information evenings. Throughout the year students will engage with employers from a variety of sectors and they will participate in careers programmes of learning which are appropriate to the students’ stage of planning and career learning. Further information on careers education can be gained by speaking to your child’s tutor.
All lessons focus on meaningfulness and application of the skills developed, using Skills Builder – essential employability skills, and how they will be of benefit in the working world. PSHE, Money and Finance, and Citizenship all feature as stand-alone lessons on our timetable with the inclusion of the Careers Programme delivered by Miss Brewer external partners such as Groundworks. Further topics of study such as volunteering, emotional wellbeing and enterprise enhance our offer through use of project-based learning.
Our Careers programme will be evaluated during the summer term and will provide opportunities for staff to feedback; from which the outcomes will help inform future planning.
Careers Provider Access Policy
https://www.nelep.co.uk/skills/careers-guidance-directory
https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk
https://www.employment-studies.co.uk/what-we-know/workforce-planning-and-labour-market-change?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3cSei_ao3QIVDpPtCh1fMAU9EAAYASAAEgIAJfD_BwE
https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/2084/Work-and-careers-advice
https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/2978/Courses-and-qualifications-available-for-young-people-in-County-Durham
www.auth.careersandenterprise.co.uk
Essential Skills unlock learning in the classroom, boosting academic outcomes, perseverance and self-belief. They halve the likelihood of being out of work, and increase earnings across a lifetime. They even boost wellbeing and life satisfaction.
There are eight essential skills: Listening, Speaking, Problem Solving, Creativity, Staying Positive, Aiming High, Leadership and Teamwork.
But access to these skills isn’t fair. And where they are missed, it undermines social mobility, productivity and wellbeing.
At Endeavour Academy, we think everyone, at every stage of their lives, should have the opportunities to build them.
GBM 1- A Stable Careers Programme- Our Careers Programme is personalised to ensure progression through activities which are appropriate to students’ stages of career learning, planning and development.
GBM2- Learning from Careers and Labour Market information- All student’s access lessons where Labour Market information is discussed. Students are also shown how to use websites such as the LMI for all and the National Careers Service.
GBM3- Addressing the needs of every pupil- Every student is referred to Groundworks who help to enhance the knowledge and support given to students. Students also have 1:1 meetings with Miss Brewer to discuss post-16 options.
GBM4- Linking curriculum learning to careers- Every classroom has a dedicated display board on different careers in their subjects. Lessons are linked to the real world by giving students the opportunities to discuss the real working world and careers surrounding the subjects they are studying.
GBM5- Encounters with employers and employees- Students are given equal opportunities to visit places such as Nissan where they are given the chance to speak with employees and see a day in their life. Employers are also invited into the school to speak with the students.
GBM6- Experiences of work places- Every student is given the opportunity to take part in work experience, whether that be a placement we have sourced, or a placement they have sourced themselves. Students attend vocational sessions such as Hair and Beauty where they are working in a real-life environment.
GBM7- Encounters with further and higher education- Students are given information on college open days and can be supported to attend. Groundworks also escort students to and from open evenings. Students are given the opportunity to visit University’s, take part in online sessions during National Careers Week and are made aware of opportunities available through outside agencies such as Speakers for schools.
GBM8- Personal Guidance- Every student has a 1:1 careers information, advice and guidance session with Miss Brewer, they are also invited to meet with Groundworks who support transition into post 16. Students have weekly timetabled employability lessons with where they learn about post-16 choices, University, The real working world, Life after school etc. Students are also available to have drop-in sessions with Miss Brewer of they feel they need further support.
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