Parent Careers Support page
Parent Zone:
Please find some useful links to help with the understanding of what options students have for when they leave school, apprenticeships, college, university.
https://www.careerpilot.org.uk/parent-zone
https://amazingapprenticeships.com/parents/
Careers advisor:
Our year 10 and 11 students can book into see our careers advisor to get 1 to 1 to talk about their options for when it comes to them moving on from school.
Anne Cameron is our careers advisor if you have any questions please feel free to email her on anne.cameron.careers@hotmail.com
Careers events:
6th form foundation skills for students
Careers fair
Debating
Year 9 Debating
For me and not for me
Research skills programme
The offer
Work experience
Year 10 Debating
Year 10 Employability
Year 11 Taster Day
Year 11 Academic Review Day
Careers Meetings
Year 9 Options
Virtual Work Experience
Positive quotes from our Employability Day
Quotes from the students
"The day went really well and I got a lot of information from the workshops"
"I wasn’t 100% sure what I was going to do as a career, but today has given me options in science that I hadn’t considered"
"I really enjoyed today. It has given me lots of information and things to think about"
"I have learnt to communicate with people better, through the one-to-one interview and workshops. I learnt about the type of questions that might be asked"
"It was really useful being able to learn how to write a CV and many of the activities were fun and great for experience"
Quotes from the businesses
"Some students were shy, but most were brilliant and came out of their shells when prompted with an interest of theirs."
‘Great engagement opportunity.’
"Really engaged and polite students. Many had some very high aspirations."
"All students were very polite and respectful to me. It is my first time doing this and I have really enjoyed the entire process of speaking with them."
"Impressed with the range of students and their different aspirations. All seemed to have really thought about what they would like to do."
KentChoices help video of how to apply
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