Careers Education & Inspiration in Key Stage 5
We have developed our Key Stage 5 curriculum in alignment with the six learning areas outlined in the CDI’s Career Development Framework. This framework identifies the key outcomes that career development programmes should aim to achieve, ensuring that students acquire the essential skills needed to build positive and fulfilling careers.
When designing our programmes, we consistently ask:
How does this activity help students to:
- Grow throughout life?
- Explore possibilities?
- Manage their career?
- Create opportunities?
- Balance life and work?
- See the big picture?
Each activity may target a specific learning outcome, but the overall curriculum is carefully structured to ensure that students engage with all six learning areas. This comprehensive approach supports the holistic development of career management skills from an early stage.
These objectives are met through a combination of dedicated careers lessons, collapsed timetable Enrichment Days, our whole school Careers fair, Work Experience in Year 10, Progression Day in Year 11 and access to visiting professionals.
Every KS4 student is provided with an appointment to see Lindsay Evans our Independent Matrix Qualified Careers Advisor. During this interview, students will create their personal action plan detailing the opportunities available to them and the steps needed to ensure a successful transition to Post-16 education.
Every students' careers activity is placed on their online UniFrog account so that their careers Journey is tracked from Year 7 - Year 13.
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Big Questions |
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Self-development through careers and work-related education |
1. Self-Awareness |
Can you assess how you are changing? Are you able to match your skills, interests and values to requirements of and opportunities in learning and work? |
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2. Self Determination |
Can you create positive accounts of your own story? Can you emphasise the responsibility you are taking to manage your own progress, raise your achievement and improve your wellbeing? |
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3. Self-improvement as a learner |
Are you proactive in taking part in career and work related learning activities? Can you assess the benefits of these activities to you as a learner? |
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Finding out about careers and the world of work |
4. Exploring careers and career development |
Can you explain the impact of changing career processes and structures on people's experience and management of their own career development? |
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5. Investigating work and working life |
Can you recognise the personal, social and economic value of different kinds of work? Are you critically aware of the key debates about the future of work? |
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6. Understanding business and industry |
Can you explain how what business do, the way they operate and how they measure success is changing? |
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7. Investigating jobs and labour market information (LMI) |
Can you research and evaluate relevant labour market information (LMI) to draw conclusions to support your future plans? |
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8. Valuing equality, diversity and inclusion |
Can you reflect critically on the ethical, legal and business case for equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the implications of your behaviour and that of others. |
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9. Learning about safe working practices and environments |
Can you recognise different levels of risk and do you understand your responsibilities and rights as a students, trainee or employee for observing safe working practices? |
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Developing skills for career management and employability |
10. Making the most of careers information advice and guidance |
Have you developed and made the most of your personal network of support? Can you show that you are a proactive and discerning user of impartial careers information, advice and guidance? |
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11. Preparing for employability |
Can you explain what you are doing to improve your employability and to meet the expectations of employers and co-workers? |
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12. Showing initiative and enterprise |
Have you developed and applied enterprising qualities and skills in your approach to learning, work and career planning? |
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13. Developing personal financial capability |
Have you developed your financial capability to improve the decisions you make that affect your everyday living, further study, training and work. |
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14. Identifying choices and opportunities |
Have you researched and evaluated progression pathways and return on investment for the higher and further education, training, apprenticeship, employment and volunteering options that are open to you? |
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15. Planning and deciding |
Do you know how to make career enhancing plans and decisions? |
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16. Handling applications and selection |
Do you know how to prepare for, perform well in and learn from your participation in a selection process? |
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17. Managing changes and transitions |
Do you know how to develop and use the strategies you will need to cope with the challenge of managing your career transitions? |
Hampstead School is committed to providing a comprehensive careers and work related programme throughout the school.
To deliver our aims we continue to develop a curriculum that embeds careers education information advice and guidance (CEIAG) whilst enriching students' lives with opportunities that reach beyond the classroom and into the wider global community.