Careers education is an important part of a young person's development. At Hartshill Academy, we are committed to ensuring that the academy has a strong careers programme that supports our pupils from Year 7 until Year 11. We help our pupils to make well informed decisions about their next steps and provide impartial advice and guidance.
Our careers programme is developed in line with the Gatsby Benchmarks. As part of our careers programme, we offer the following:
If you are a parents/carer of a pupil at this academy and would like to know more about our careers programme
To help us with our planning we follow a set of core guidelines called The Gatsby Benchmarks. These are 8 key areas that contribute to effective careers provision. Each term we complete an evaluation using a system called ‘Compass’ this allows us to rate our provision against each benchmark and indicates what our focus needs to be. Our aim is to reach 100% in all 8 benchmarks!
In December 2022 we were awarded the national Quality in Careers Standard (QICS) including the Ixion Gold Award, this was awarded under license by Ixion. QICS demonstrates our commitment to all pupils to the highest quality careers programme and activities.
We evaluate our careers provision annually and do this effectively via the compass+ evaluation tool. This tool is used to let us know how we are performing against the Gatsby Benchmarks and provides us with areas for improvement.
The careers leader Kate Wooldridge is available to support with general advice and guidance and more specific careers-based questions.
They can be contacted on Kate.Wooldridge@hartshillacademy.org.uk.
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