STAFF:
Miss IrwinMr Scullion
About our department
As Children prepare for Adult and Working life, they are presented with formidable challenges, one of which is the important matter of considering career options. The school seeks to offer a broad, balanced and effective Careers Education programme which helps young people make sound judgements based upon current information as well as on their interests and aptitudes.Careers Education provides our pupils with the challenge of considering career options when they leave school and beyond. This helps the young person to acquire skills, attitudes and abilities they will need to develop in an Adult life.
This is achieved in a number of ways:
- In our Careers Suite, our pupils can search the internet and look for specific work areas.
- By examining a number of career paths, for example in the form of projects on specific jobs.
- Encouraging the pupils to produce their own career plan.
- Each pupil being interviewed by the Careers Officer and given help and assistance/
- Every pupil is given the opportunity to have at least one week of work experience in a career of his or her own choice. After completing this week, a number of our pupils have obtained either part-time of full-time work.
- Career conventions are held in the school to enable pupils to speak to employers and representatives from Further Education Colleges. This helps them to plot their own career paths.
Careers education is offered to all our pupils from Year 11 upwards and are encouraged to develop skills and career plans. With guidance from teachers , careers officers and parents each pupil looks at their own starting point, decides what route they wish to take and what they need to do to achieve that goal. With this guidance and strategy pupils are in a much stronger position to choose the correct career.
