Careers Teacher Area
Haggerston School is committed to providing high quality Careers, Education, Information, Advice and Guidance to help inspire students and to enable them to make rational informed career decisions. This is a part of our Haggerston Journey. Haggerston School aims to meet all eight benchmarks identified by the Gatsby Foundation.
Careers should not be the responsibility of a Careers Leader and a small number of teachers, but of all staff with Haggerston School.
At Haggerston School we would like all subject areas to do the following:
- Have a prominent display that links subject learning and skill development to different careers
- Develop links with businesses and organisations
- To invite alumni and other external speakers to come into school (virtually where an actual visit is not feasible)
- Where appropriate to organise external visits by students to local businesses/organisations
- Record careers learning opportunities for students in schemes of learning
- Take part in whole school ‘Careers Days’ where all teachers start their lesson with a careers focus, such as talking about their career pathway or showing a short film where people in a range of job roles explain the relevance of skills developed in a particular subject area to their role.
- Explore the possibility of developing real projects/challenges for students with a local business or organisation e.g. a local company setting IT students the task of designing/updating their website
- Consider the needs and interests of all students and ensure that information challenges stereotyping including gender and disability
Subject teachers will be supported to develop and integrate careers learning opportunities into their schemes of learning through INSET sessions and faculty meetings.
With regards to local opportunities, London is at the heart of changes within the employment landscape. For more information about the business landscape within London please see the following website: https://careerslondon.org/LMI-London
Useful websites
https://www.careerpilot.org.uk