Maplewell Hall School is committed to providing high quality Careers, Education, Information, Advice and Guidance to help inspire students and to enable them to make rational informed career decisions. Maplewell Hall School aims to meet all eight Benchmarks identified by the Gatsby Foundation.
Our Leadership team views careers as not being the responsibility of a Careers Leader and a small number of teachers, but of all staff in schools and colleges. Together, we can all make small changes in the curriculum that collectively have a big impact in the classrooms.
If you’d like help or support to embed careers in your subject contact robcooper@maplewell.leics.sch.uk who is the Careers Leader for our School. You might also talk to Nathan James who is the school’s Essential Skills ambassador.
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At Maplewell Hall School we expect all teachers to do the following:
- Display the 8 Essential Skills and refer to these skills regularly in lessons and in verbal and written feedback to students and their parents/carers.
- Assess every child’s Essential Skills and record their levels on your subject mark books at least once a term.
- Have a prominent display that links subject learning and skill development to different careers.
- Support students to take part in The T.E.A.M. challenge.
- Develop links with businesses and organisations to invite external speakers to come into school (virtually where an actual visit is not feasible).
- Invite alumni to come into school (virtually where an actual visit is not feasible).
- Where appropriate to organise external visits by students to local businesses/organisations.
- Record careers learning opportunities for students in schemes of learning.
- Take part in whole school ‘Careers Days’ where all teachers start their lesson with a careers focus, such as talking about their career pathway or showing a short film where people in a range of job roles explain the relevance of skills developed in a particular subject area to their role.
- Explore the possibility of developing real projects/challenges for students with a local business or organisation e.g., a local company setting IT students the task of designing/updating their website.
- Consider the needs and interests of all students and ensure that information challenges stereotyping including gender and disability.