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Vision & Strategy

To help you discover a future full of possibilities through a forward-thinking, first-class careers programme.

We help you create, aspire and excel through a careers programme that inspires, informs and guides you. By exploring opportunities and pathways, you will gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to take your next steps.


You will follow a comprehensive 6-step careers programme that helps you discover, explore, plan, focus, decide and prepare for your future. Through careers interviews, employer talks, university visits, CV workshops, work experience and more, you’ll develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to take your next steps.

iDiscover

Year 7

  • Student Future Skills and Career Activity
  • Careers Education in PSHE (12 Lessons)
  • Employability Skills
  • Unifrog – Interest Profiles
  • Encounters with Employers – Literacy / STEM
  • Career Opportunity Day
  • Employer Visits

iExplore

Year 8

  • Student Future Skills and Career Activity 
    Survey
  • Careers Education in PSHE (12 lessons)
  • Unifrog – Interest Profiles
  • Options Evening & Aspirations Pathway Assembly
  • Technical Education Provider & Talks
  • Encounters with Employers 
  • Work Shadowing Day
  • University Visits (Oxford University)

iPlan

Year 9

  • Student Future Skills and Career Activity Survey
  • Careers Education in PSHE (12 lessons)
  • Unifrog – Interest Profiles
  • Encounters with Employers – Career Talks
  • Technical Education Provider & Apprenticeship Talks
  • University Visit – Future Focus
  • Career Opportunity Day
  • Technical Provider and College Talks
  • Work Experience Opportunities
  • BIMA Digital Day

iFocus

Year 10

  • Student Future Skills and Career Activity
  • Careers Education in PSHE (12 Lessons)
  • Unifrog – Personality, Profiling & Career Goals
  • Encounters with Employers & Careers Talks
  • Bucks Skills Show
  • Employability Skills Workshop – RISE
  • Workplace visits
  • Apprenticeship & Post 16 Pathway Assembly
  • Technical Education Provider Talks
  • Career Opportunity Day
  • Employer Visits
  • 1:1 careers guidance with Careers Adviser

iDecide

Year 11

  • Student Future Skills and Career Activity & Destination Survey
  • Careers Education in PSHE (12 Lessons)
  • Unifrog – Further Ed and Career Goals
  • Further Education and Higher Education visits
  • Technical Education Provider Talks
  • 6th Form taster sessions & workshops
  • Encounters with Employers
  • External workplace visits
  • Year 11 Leavers Portfolios
  • 1:1 Careers Guidance with Careers Adviser

iApply

Year 12

  • Work Experience, Higher Education Talks and Apprenticeship Workshops
  • Careers Preparatory Workshops (CV, Interviews, LinkedIn, Mock Interviews)
  • Unifrog
  • UCAS Evening
  • University & Apprenticeship Fair
  • Young Enterprise Programme
  • Apprenticeships awareness & application support
  • Next Steps Programme
  • Work Experience week
  • 1:1 Interviews with independent Careers Advisor

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