Careers Department
The Careers Department provides careers education information, advice and guidance from Year 7 through to Year 13. This advice includes support in decision-making around career or study pathways from choosing options in Year 9 to information about further study, training, employment opportunities and/or apprenticeships.
Students have the chance to undertake work experience so that they can benefit from working within the local and wider community including some of the leading firms in the City. The department also organises presentations, career workshops and visits by, and to, a number of leading universities such as those in the Russell Group (e.g. University College London, the London School of Economics, Wadham College Oxford and Corpus Christi College Cambridge) as well as blue-chip corporate companies in the City of London.
In this way students are given the opportunity to expand their career choices and aspirations through research and experience. This is to ensure that they are in a better position to make informed, confident decisions about future study and career pathways. This process is led by the Information, Advice and Guidance Coordinator, Ms Shaw.
Some of the universities students IC6 progressed to in 2011:
Higher Education Aspiration Days - Local and Wider Community
Careers Fair / Excel Centre
Year 11
Year 12 and 13
Evidence provided to AQA before acceptance for the AQA Baccalaureate:
Investors in Careers
The Ofsted Inspection in November 2010 highlighted the positive impact of the school’s work with external partners and the use of our specialist status to deliver a dynamic and inclusive curriculum. The inspection report identified the school’s relationships with the local legal and business communities and higher educational establishments as key drivers in promoting community cohesion and raising attainment.
Following this external recognition, the school is now working towards achieving the Investors in Careers Award. Work is beginning with the school council to find out about students’ understanding of the school’s Careers Education Information and Guidance provision and how the school can better meet students’ needs in this area. The school now has a nominated governor to support his area of the school’s work and all staff will be supporting the delivery of a high quality programme of the CEIAG through their lessons as well as specialist work with different year groups and targeted students.
Given the rapid and large scale changes in the economic climate of this country, it is vital that as a school we equip our students with the key skills they will need to enter employment, further and higher education and to become lifelong learners.
The school is keen to hear from any students and parents who would like to contribute ideas about how they would like to see CEIAG delivered. Please send these comments to;
Ms Osman
Deputy Headteacher
Email: osmanp@cfbs.islington.sch.uk
‘Good News’
We are pleased to announce that CFBS has achieved Stage 1 of Investors in Careers Award and we are aiming to complete the second stage by March 2012.
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