Careers
Strategy and Vision
The Mandeville School Careers Curriculum has been designed in line with the school values to establish a kind community where everyone perseveres, achieves, and flourishes, where we enable all to experience life to the full.
Our Intent is to be a kind community by encouraging every student to work towards independent living and working. Through choice, hope, and optimism, adaptability, and resilience to access and engage in decent work in all its forms, both voluntary and paid and provide opportunities to learn and make progress in the pursuit of wellbeing and happiness.
We aim for our students to develop perseverance and achievement by encouraging lifelong learning and providing opportunities to develop key employability skills which are highly valued by employers, universities, and apprenticeship providers.
We strive to ensure all students can flourish through a curriculum that nourishes personal development by giving students opportunities to explore their identity and grow their character, equipped with all the information needed to be able to make an effective contribution to society.
Our curriculum enables students to experience life to the full through a curriculum that inspires and enriches them with meaningful knowledge and cultural capital. High aspirations mean study a broad range of subjects in key stage three and have a variety of routes through key stage four and five which are challenging and aspirational, equipping them with the skills, attitudes, knowledge and understanding as a foundation for managing their lifelong career and learning.
The Careers Programme
The CEIAG programme has been developed to engage parents and local employers, both in school and externally, to support our students to become employable and aspirational young people in accordance with the recommended Gatsby Benchmarks and conforms to the statutory requirements.
Please see our careers outline here
Our approach has been to embed careers education throughout the curriculum as well as using off timetable days, experiences of workplaces, assemblies and trips and visits.
Curriculum map coming soon!
Monitoring, Review and Evaluation
The CEIAG programme is monitored and evaluated annually. Reviewing the CEIAG programme takes account of the school’s Accelerated Improvement Plan to ensure the programme continues to support the school’s aims.
The effectiveness of our provision is reviewed via the Compass Plus online evaluation tool. This tool is used by schools and colleges in England to support the analysis and evaluation of careers activity against the eight benchmarks of best practice. It ensures that the development of our careers strategy is ongoing.
This will next be reviewed on 9/09/24
Premises and Facilities
The Mandeville School believes in giving FE, HE and training providers the opportunity to talk to pupils at the school.
Please see our Provider Access Policy here
Labour Market Information
While many young people face tough competition for jobs, many employers report difficulties in recruiting people with the right skills. The working world has changed fundamentally over the past generation, creating an employment challenge caused by the demise of the job for life, the emergence of the knowledge economy and the loss of many unskilled and semi-skilled jobs due to technological and globalisation changes.
Labour market information (LMI) may help students and their parents understand the job market and find out which careers, different qualifications can lead to.
Labour Market Information about the operation of the labour market helps students to explore key aspects of a particular area of employment including:
- The sectors, industries and businesses that operate there.
- The jobs that exist.
- The number and type of job vacancies.
- The sectors and businesses that are expected to grow in the coming years.
- Travel to work patterns.
- The kinds of skills which will be needed.
- Pay and progression patterns.
Labour Market Information by Region (Buckinghamshire)
https://www.buckseconomy.co.uk/jobs-and-skills/jobs-skills-research-reports/
Careers Lead
Maggie Brunt
Email: maggie.brunt@mandeville.school
Tel: 01296 745 400 ext 4515
Gatsby Benchmarks
The Gatsby Benchmarks were developed on behalf of the Gatsby Foundation by Sir John Holman. They define what careers provision in education looks like and provide a clear framework for organising the careers provision at Mandeville.
The Gatsby Benchmarks are:
- A stable careers programme
- Learning from careers and labour market information
- Addressing the needs of each student
- Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Encounters with employers and employees
- Experiences of workplaces
- Encounters with further and higher education
- Personal guidance
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Please contact Maggie Brunt at maggie.brunt@mandeville.school or on 01296 745 400 ext 4515 if you would like to get involved with our careers programme.