Welcome to Maplewell Hall School’s Career Programme webpages.
Careers
It is important to us that our definition of Careers is inclusive and acknowledges that full-time, paid employment is not a realistic goal for all our students and so at Maplewell Careers is defined as Preparing for Adulthood.
Preparing for Adulthood
Preparing for Adulthood is so important to us, we have adopted it as our has tagline. It lies at the heart of everything we do. The four pathways of Preparing for Adulthood are Employment, Independent Living, Community Inclusion, and Health and means careers is as much about, Independent Living, Community Inclusion, and Health, as it is about Employment. We could argue that everything we do, everything on our website, every curriculum plan, every policy, every lesson delivered, and every activity offered, all contribute to Careers as Preparing for Adulthood.
But describing everything we do as a Special School to support students on this journey towards adulthood is tricky and so on these pages you can find out about our Career Programme which is specifically the work we do that is focussed on the Employment pathway of Preparing for Adulthood, and how we help students prepare for the next steps in their journey towards Further Education, training and the World of Work.
World of Work and Employment
As a school, it is our goal to help all of our students access the World of Work through full-time, paid employment. However, for some of our students this is an unrealistic goal. To be inclusive, we acknowledge that the World of Work might mean accessing the community where others work, and Employment might mean volunteering or working part-time.
Our Career Programme
The aim of our Career Programme is to take students on a journey where they begin at Experiences of Work, travel through Work Experiences and arrive ready for the World of Work and Employment; an Apprenticeship, Traineeship or Internship; or Further Education. And not just arriving ready, but arriving with the skills, knowledge, attitudes and values to thrive.
Our Career Programme includes:
