The entire ethos behind Outstanding Careers is twofold.

  1. To ensure that your pupils receive the best possible careers education, enabling them to make realistic and informed decisions which improve their chance of finishing their course or apprenticeship. (Thus, improving your destinations data which the government now collects & will publish as a key indicator.)
  2. To ensure that your school’s needs and budget are fully catered to. The majority of companies offering IAG packages to schools do not understand the school agenda and how it impacts upon provision. Outstanding Careers does and tailors each solution to your school’s needs.

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Outstanding careers
8 Waldair Court
Barge House Rd
London
E16 2NW
/ Making the Most of National Careers Week 2014
3-7th March 2014

Outstanding careers
Careers Ed for All
Table of Contents
10 tips to get careers on the menu in your school...... 1
Getting Started...... 2
What should I do first...... 2
Making a 5 min action plan...... 2
Some ideas you might find useful...... 3
Getting SLT onside...... 4
What SLT needs to know Ofsted...... 4
What SLT needs to know Pupil Premium...... 4
Our Products and Services...... 5 /

Our Products & Services

Careers Education Consultancy


/ Outstanding Careers can provide your school with the support and expertise needed to improve careers education in order to achieve your priorities be that an impending Ofsted inspection or gathering evidence to support pupil premium spending.

Staff CPD


/ Really good careers education needs whole school awareness, helping staff to deal with careers conversations in helpful ways; understanding where their own subjects deliver careers learning or simply auditing what is going on in your school already, Outstanding Careers can help.

Bespoke documentation & schemes of work


/ As with anything these days evidence is required, Outstanding Careers can support your staff in writing policies, student entitlement statements, schemes of work etc. Or we can do the whole thing for you in keeping with your desired outcomes.
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Getting SLT onside

One of the major hurdles most careers people have to cross is getting the school to accept that careers isn’t just something that happens in a half hour interview with a careers advisor in KS4

Ofsted

Ofsted published a report in September 2013 outlining the importance of Careers Education, Information & Guidance (CEIAG) and their intention of giving it greater importance in inspections? Currently HMIs are being given training in what to look for in a balanced and impartial CEIAG offer
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Pupil Premium

It’s important that SLT understand that done well, CEIAG can provide a lot of evidence to prove effective use of pupil premium. My blog gives a full overview of this topic. However, the key words are REALISTIC aspirations, Meta cognition, action planning and progress. /

10 Ways to Pioneer Careers Work through leadership

10 tips for head teachers to improve destinations measures

/ 1. Make careers work a formal part of the mission of your school or college.
2. Give a senior leader and a governor responsibility for championing careers work.
3. Ensure that the Chair of governors and the governing body are aware of the importance of careers work, including the statutory duty relating to careers guidance.
4. Work in partnership with other organisations, including employers, to deliver careers work.
5. Identify resources and undertake necessary commissioning to deliver impartial and independent careers guidance for students in years 8 to 13.
6. Ensure careers guidance is delivered by qualified practitioners or accredited organisations.
7. Secure a careers coordinator and make them a member of your senior management team.
8. Seek the views of students on the content, design and delivery of careers work via established forums such as school or college councils.
9. Create a coherent strategy for careers work across the key stages, subject departments and staff delivering careers support.
10. Integrate careers work across the curriculum (this may require a curriculum audit).
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What can you do?


/ Careers Week encourages education providers to bring together students, local employers and advisers through careers events and activities.
During National Careers Week it is up to every school, academy and college to offer careers advice and guidance to their students. NCW are here to help and can provide free resources, information on current career opportunities and advice on activities and exercises to run.

When is it?


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Getting Started

What should I do?

Register at
Download the free poster
Decide which if any of the activities suggested suit what you want to do in your school. If they do, great, if not, feel free to decide what you want to do in your organisation.

Making a 5 minute action plan

Using the action plan sheet provided in this pack of resources decide what you want your plans for NCW to achieve within your organisation.
If your overall ambition is to get SLT more receptive to careers; pay attention to the current issues that SLT are interested in, currently pupil premium and Ofsted Outstanding.
Consider the amount of time you have to spare, support you can access and what obstacles you are likely to encounter, factor them into you plan.
Now the fun part – getting your pupils excited about their future plans.
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Some ideas you might find useful

Some ideas need more work than others, ideas and support can be found on Careers Defender’s Pinterest board


Get in contact with you local university schools liaison team, they often have activities that can be brought into schools or visits for pupils to the campus itself.
Organise assemblies on careers themes such as knowing yourself, or making option choices.
Departments create careers using (subject) displays
Encourage teachers to use Careersbox videos in lessons
Get parents in to talk to small groups about their career journeys
Visits to workplaces
A careers fair – invite employers and professional bodies to attend.
Games & competitions quizzes
Get a group of pupils to visit a feeder primary to discuss careers with them.
Career exploration - project based cross curricular work exploring and presenting information about different careers
Professions day – looking at routes into professions apart from university.

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