Core Careers Programme Topics (Careers Hour)

Year 7 – Lesson Topics

  1. Character Traits and Skills
  2. Careers and Your Future
  3. Transition Points and Your life (Careers and Options)
  4. Personal Qualities and Skills
  5. Visual CV
  6. Types of Jobs and Careers

Year 8 – Lesson Topics

  1. Understanding the Workplace
  2. Jobs and Opportunities
  3. Standard Occupational Classification
  4. Business Structures
  5. Exploring Enterprise and Employability Skills
  6. Interpersonal Skills

Year 9 – Lesson topics

  1. Careers Interests and Job Ideas
  2. Labour Market Information
  3. Making Decisions
  4. Choosing Subjects (Options)
  5. Qualifications and Pathways
  6. In the Workplace

Year 10 – Lesson topics

  1. Budgeting and The Workplace
  2. Saving and Managing Money
  3. Employability and Enterprise Skills
  4. Consumer Rights
  5. Diversity, Inclusion and Employment Rights
  6. Exploring a Payslip
  7. Employability: Presenting Yourself
  8. Options at 16

Year 11 – Lesson topics

  1. Next Steps After Year 11 (1)
  2. Next Steps after Year 11 (2)
  3. Applications and CVs
  4. Credit and Debit Cards
  5. Paying Tax

Year 12 – Lesson topics

  1. Transition to Sixth Form
  2. Options at 18 – Universities and Apprenticeships (1)
  3. Options at 18 – Universities and Apprenticeships (2)
  4. Degree Apprenticeships – outside speaker
  5. Employability Skills
  6. Choosing a University Course – outside speaker
  7. What can I do with a degree in…?
  8. Writing a Personal Statement – outside speaker

Year 13 – Lesson Topics

  1. Registering with UCAS
  2. UCAS Form and Personal Support / Apprenticeship and Employment Support (1)
  3.  UCAS Form and Personal Support / Apprenticeship and Employment Support (2)
  4. Interview Skills
  5. Employability Skills
  6. Student Life and Budgeting / Budgeting and Finance

KS 3 – careers insight evenings (from Y9) – for students interested in each sector and their parents.

KS 4 – mock interviews, workplace visits, at least one careers interview for all students, careers insight evenings for students interested in each sector and their parent, apprenticeships fair at a local college for those considering an apprenticeship, careers fair, sixth form taster day.

KS 5 – UCAS Fair (Y12), support with UCAS applications, mock interviews for vocational university courses, Oxbridge workshop, targeted work experience for all students, careers interviews on request or by referral, careers insight evenings for students interested in each sector and their parents, higher education evening (for Y12 students and parents).

Subject departments also include careers related content in lessons, including employer encounters.