Careers education, information and guidance programmes play a major part in helping young people choose pathways that suit their interests, abilities and individual needs.
A robust careers programme helps to put school learning into a wider and more relevant context, and helps raise aspirations. The Avon Valley School careers programme helps our students to plan and manage their careers effectively, ensuring progression. It is ambitious and aspirational, promotes equality of opportunity, celebrates diversity and challenges stereotypes.
The careers programme runs from year 7 to year 11 and each year group is given a wide range of opportunities to engage with and find out about the world of work.
Students’ careers activities are comprehensively tracked through COMPASS+. These are reviewed annually and create next steps.
All year groups
Your year group Google Career Classroom will have up-to-date information relevant to you.
The websites below could give you some ideas of future careers:
https://icould.com ICould provides 1000 different video clips of personal careers stories and helps students explore different careers routes and pathways
https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/ National Career Service provides information about job profiles and finding courses
The following websites may be of use to students and parents:
When applying to any of these post 16 providers, it is essential you apply using the most updated form and USE AN EMAIL ADDRESS THAT IS CHECKED OFTEN
This year we are piloting Unifrog with some students. Log in details will be provided to students. The Unifrog platform will also be used to deliver the work experience programme.
If you would like more information, or would like to participate in a careers event, please contact Mrs Owen lowen@avonvalleyschool.uk for further information.
| If you would like to be part of the AVS alumni, please get in touch with Mrs Owen – lowen@avonvalleyschool.uk |
Parents/Carers are an important source of careers information and guidance.
Where can you get up-to-date sources of information? Below are some signposts to impartial information:
If you would like more information, or would like to participate in a careers event, please contact Mrs Owen lowen@avonvalleyschool.uk for further information.
The eight Gatsby Benchmarks are the core dimension of good careers and enterprise provision in schools. They have a key role in raising young people’s aspirations and promoting access to all careers pathways, enabling all young people to develop the skills and outlook they need to achieve career wellbeing and underpin the DfE guidance to schools on meeting their statutory responsibility for careers guidance.
If you would like more information, or would like to organise a careers event, please contact Mrs Owen lowen@avonvalleyschool.uk for further information.
As an employer/employee could you help the students at AVS by:
AVS can support your company in the following ways:
Please contact Mrs Owen lowen@avonvalleyschool.uk if you would like further information about employer engagement at AVS.