Currently in the UK, less than 6% of people with SEND make it into paid employment: our aim at Abbot’s Lea School is to actively change that. Our vision is to increase the opportunities our students have of finding quality, paid employment post-education. We ensure this by providing consistent, high quality careers education for all of our students – delivered in a meaningful and appropriate way for their needs and circumstances.
In order to support students to achieve their aspirations, careers education at Abbot’s Lea School consists of the following six distinct strands:
- Vocational Employability lessons to support students with identifying their skills, interests and talents. This includes CV writing, interview techniques and job applications.
- Work Related Learning opportunities which offer meaningful vocational experience on site.
- A variety of Social Enterprise Activities.
- Off Site Work Experience at local businesses, including job coaching to support students at placements.
- Support, including from external agencies, with planning futures for our students.
- Supported Internships, work experience placements and inspiration days with our employer partners, such as National Trust, Cadent, Aloft Hotels and more!
Abbot’s Lea School is also a member of the Liverpool City Region’s Careers Hub
For more information, please contact:
currently vacant (Careers Lead)
Abbot’s Lea School Employability Curriculum- Employability Curriculum
Abbot’s Lea School Career’s Policy – Careers Policy
Employability overview – Employability Snapshot – Whole school
Abbot’s Lea School were the 2019 winner of the Educate awards ‘Career Aspiration’ category!
Abbot’s Lea school Launch Supported Internship’s and help students into the workplace!
- Employability Curriculum Links+
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Embedding Employability supports constructive alignment – authentic and relevant learning objectives, teaching strategies and assessment. It helps identify and develop relevant and innovative pedagogic practice in the creation of the optimal experience for students.
Click below to see how our curriculum and employability training are integrated for meaningful transitions and futures.
- EYFS/KS1 Employability Curriculum Links+
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Employability Curriculum Subject and Thematic Links Characteristics of effective learning and EYFS development matters
Activities (EYFS/KS1 learn through a balance of structured teaching and learning through play, small world, role play opportunities)
The types of jobs that people have within society and the role that people play within a modern day society Understanding the world: People and communities, The world links to ‘Our World’ – pupils learn about the world around them including jobs eg, reading ‘The Jolly Postman’ pupils engaged in post office role play Small world play Role play
Curriculum enrichment days (Careers day )
Exposure to fire cadets
That there are a range of jobs that are available and they need to be exposed to theses PSHE trips into the community, café, post office, park, swimming pool, museum etc. Exposure to people and their jobs including PE pupils encounter with Judo instructors, dance teachers, golfers. Small world play Role play
Activities based on the topic
Careers days
Assemblies
Opportunities to explore during continuous provision (Visual stimulation, small world props, writing and drawing opportunities to express themselves)
Skills that are needed and transferable within the world of work Life skills: independent self-help skills covered in EYFS ‘Physical development’ moving and handling objects and an awareness of their own bodies, health and level of self-care. PSED: welcomes praise, enjoys carrying out small jobs
Pupils given small jobs during the school day, eg collecting snack equipment, looking after their belongings, asking for help, having a go. Rules and have a clear understanding of what is right and wrong and the implications of each of these PSED: Making relationships, self-confidence and awareness, managing feelings and behaviour. Golden Rules
Modelling play for our students to understand how to share, take turns, ask others to join in etc Discussions on class rules, being a kind friend etc
Good choices/bad choices conversations
The roles played by public institutions and voluntary groups in society Understanding the world: People and communities. Speaking to third sector and public services through careers days The functions and uses of money PSHE association framework Mathematics (space, shape, measure)
Role play (shop) Trips to local shops, handling money
School events, buying items at school fayres.
Students should begin to plan a career and have an understanding of the career they wish to pursue Understanding the world PSHE
Encouraged to role play different jobs/scenarios. Discussions
Area enhancements to encourage pupils to draw and mark make, developing their awareness and interest in others around them, different ways of life and jobs. ‘When I grow up I want to be…’
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Employability Curriculum Subject and Thematic Links Activities The local labour market and the potential gaps within The Liverpool City Region Life Skills Terms 5 & 6 Living in The Wider World Careers assemblies Career research
Exposure to the labour market and the types of jobs that are within The Liverpool City Region Growth Sectors (https://www.liverpoollep.org/growth-sectors/) -
- Advance Manufacturing
- Digital and Creative
- Health and Life Sciences
- Innovation
- Low Carbon
- Professional and Business Services
- Superport
- Visitor Economy
PSHE Trips (alternate weeks all classes) Life Skills Curriculum
Primary Careers day Jaguar LandRover STEM Engineers
Visits to local museums, cafes, restaurants and attractions.
Year 6 Work Experience
Careers assemblies
Employer exposure – Community/visits
To be equipped with the right skills for the areas of work that they have identified within their personal aspiration plans. These skills will be transferable to society and the roles within it. Each morning core skills 9-12 Maths and English. - Life Skills Terms 1&2 Relationships
- Life Skills Terms 3&4 Health & Wellbeing
- Life Skills Terms 5&6 Living in the Wider World
NSPCC Speak Out Stay Safe years 5 & 6
Life Skills Terms 1&2 Relationships Lessons 1-6: Managing Emotions
Lesson 10: Personal Space
Lesson 13: Play Together
Lesson 14: Sharing
Life Skills Terms 3&4 Health & Wellbeing
Lesson 1: Healthy Lifestyles
Lesson 3 Personal Hygiene
Lesson 5 Emotional Health
Lesson 6 Managing Feelings
Lesson 7 Road Safety
Lesson 8 Online Safety
Lesson 10 Fire Safety
Lesson 11 Home Safety
Lesson 12 Secrets and Surprises
Life Skills Terms 5&6 Living in the Wider World
Lesson 1 Individual Differences
Lesson 2 Different Communities
Lesson 3 Rights and Responsibilities
Lessons 7 & 8 Environmentally Aware
Rules and have a clear understanding of what is right and wrong and the implications of each of these Golden Rules embedded into daily class routines Positive rewards in place – DoJo Points
UKS2 weekly Current Affairs Lessons
Small world play
- Weekly Celebration Assemblies celebrating achievement of Golden Rules
- Life Skills Terms 5&6 Living in the Wider World
Lesson 3 Rights and Responsibilities
Golden rules assembly.
The roles played by public institutions and voluntary groups in society and to get involved in activities that allow expose to such groups. Life Skills Term 5&6 : Living In The Wider World Liverpool Active Promise
Life Skills Term 5&6 : Living In The Wider World Lesson 5. Special people who work in our community
Lesson 6. People Eho Help Us (uniformed services)
Visits from uniformed services at Christmas Fair, Summer Fair and Primary Careers Carousel (Police, St Johns, Fire Service, Nurse etc).
Liverpool Active Promise – Movema Dance and other external groups.
Exposure to fire cadets
The functions and uses of money and how to budget, with a clear link to income and expenditure. Daily maths Lessons. LKS2 weekly money maths lessons.
Life Skills Terms 5&6: Living in the Wider World
PHSE trips in the community including to cafes and shops – responsibility for payment. Life Skills Terms 5&6: Living in The Wider World
Lesson 9. Where Does money come from
Lesson 10. Keeping money safe
Lessons 11 & 12. Money and spending
Students have the ability to think about a career, plan a career and have an understanding of the career and the requirements of this career (accredited learning, HEI) Early links with employers and community Vocational profiling Careers assemblies
Students will be taught about the FE and HEI sector and through experiential visits have knowledge and understanding of the role that each of these can play within their development. Life skills Careers day and access to Careers fair Students will be taught about business start-up and entrepreneurship. Life skills Grow 20 Enterprise Activity at Christmas and Summer Fairs (classes given £20 to set up a stall designing and selling own product – highest profit wins). Student snack stall at Jim jam Jog
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Employability Curriculum Subject and Thematic Links Activities The local labour market and the potential gaps within Liverpool as the locality Geography Life skills
History,
Our City
Local Landmarks
Work experience- Careers
Local geography – types of employment – local surveys, café visits, supermarkets, exposure to jobs and services. Ensure link to employment is embedded in each visit.
Potential work experience to Dobbies and additional employers including internal.
Students learning will allow them to be immersed within the labour market and the types of jobs that are within The Liverpool City Region Growth Sectors. They will have experiential opportunities to work with employers from within each of the eight areas of growth identified by The Liverpool City Region (https://www.liverpoollep.org/growth-sectors/) -
- Advance Manufacturing
- Digital and Creative
- Health and Life Sciences
- Innovation
- Low Carbon
- Professional and Business Services
- Superport
- Visitor Economy
ICT – Digital design – link to opportunities / employment, Coding – developing skills for use in computer programming.
Digital literacy – across the whole curriculum.
Running mini enterprises
Careers- Industries
Practical uses of software – word processing, spreadsheet etc. Life skills – budgets, money maths
Office style exposure to processing documents / forms
Communication skills
Interpersonal skills / relationship
Importance of personal hygiene
Punctuality / reliability
Emotional resilience / accepting criticism
Waiting
Travel skills
Potential collapsed curriculum day giving student’s information about each sector.
Careers assemblies
Careers fairs
To be equipped and be able to use a broad range of skills for the areas of work that they have identified within their personal aspiration plans. These skills will be transferable to society and the roles within it. They will have demonstrated the knowledge to use the skills in an effective way that allows for progression within a business. Careers PSHE
Community visits/links
Meetings with Job Coach
Access to meaningful practical activities Assessing risks for themselves
Role play
Create PAPs, work experience opportunities
Students will benefit from opportunities to develop further the skills that they are not equipped with or feel secure in using. These skills will be highlighted as targets and students will have the opportunity to develop these skills within a practical context. Assembly Citizenship/ life skills
Ingrained in daily routine
Teamwork, Leadership, Perseverance, trust, motor skills, hand eye coordination
Agriculture, Horticulture
Further education exposure
Food preparation, using money, budgeting, reading, writing, speaking and listening skills
Teamwork, Leadership, Perseverance, trust, motor skills, hand eye coordination
Agriculture, Horticulture
Further education exposure
Food preparation, using money, budgeting, reading, writing, speaking and listening skills
Making simple snacks (using electrical appliances: toaster, kettle, washing machine) Practising to tie their shoe laces
Packing their own bags, (what will I need?)
Public speaking: talking in front of audiences in different settings (classroom, assembly, etc.)
PSHE- Wheels Extreme, Sporting competitions
PSHE- Dutch Farm
Extra-Curricular- University open days
Life skills (Food Technology, English, Maths)
PSHE- Wheels Extreme, Sporting competitions
PSHE- Dutch Farm
Extra-Curricular- University open days
Life skills (Food Technology, English, Maths)
Rules and have a clear understanding of what is right and wrong and the implications of each of these Citizenship PSHE
History
Promoting the golden rules.
Modelling good behaviour in and outside school.
Challenge inappropriate behaviours.
Set high expectation for all pupils.
Through cross curriculum teaching.
Class rules /use of dojo points / class contracts. Agreed behaviour system
Individualised behaviour charts
PSHE trips into the community.
(Extreme wheels, Football, Dutch farm, swimming).
Targeted lessons and assemblies.
External speakers.
Promote pupils skills and help identify what they are good at.
The roles played by public institutions and voluntary groups in society. To participate in activities that allow exposure to such groups. Art Citizenship / Life skills
Food bank / harvest appeal
Shoebox appeal (operation Christmas child)
Student council.
Designing and selling crafts at Xmas/summer fair.
Spud Wednesdays.
‘Cuppa New Guinea’.
Creating artwork for display in the Reader gallery/café in Calderstones park. Donating to charities.
Creating packs for charities.
Class discussions about the roles these organisations play.
Raising money for charity (sponsoring, global scouse day, fairs, dogs trust).
Mock elections.
Enterprise.
Fire cadets programme
The functions and uses of money and how to budget, with a clear link to income and expenditure and independent living through a bespoke life skills curriculum to support Maths Life skills
Budgeting
Spending money
Food Technology
Budgeting activities Collapsed curriculum activities for fairs and fundraising events (e.g. Grow 20)
Using money during trips out.
Planning a party
Buying ingredients, buying snack
Food preparation
Students will be taught how to begin thinking about how to independently travel and when ready will undertake travel training with the support of LCC and the school Job Coach. Topic themes Life skills
PSHE
Geography
Life skills
Travel training Planning trips out during topic related activities.
Practise using public transport.
Map reading, planning routes, walking to close destinations
Accessing bus routes, accessing public transport
Students will be taught about their opportunities at year 9 (14 to 16 college, alternative schools, KS4) PSHE trips. Life skills lessons.
Entry level / Foundation.
University visits. External visitors (careers).
Assemblies.
Job coach.
Apprenticeships.
Work experience.
Students will have an understanding of the options available to them at the end of KS4 (Supported Internships, Apprenticeships, paid employment, FE, KS5) Life skills Computing
PSHE trips.
Life skills lessons.
Entry level / Foundation.
Mock job interviews Practice using online templates to design their own CV.
University visits.
External visitors (careers).
Assemblies.
Job coach.
Apprenticeships.
Work experience.
Improved home school links.
Building pupils confidence and self-belief.
Through the above, students will be taught to develop a coherent career plan that will enable progression and also identify opportunities to immerse themselves in practical experiences that allow for the skill set used and explored further. Careers activities PSHE visits
CIAG
Careers fair CIAG
Work experience
Employer exposure
Students will be taught explicitly about the Higher Education Sector with clear links to their chosen career, but also gaining experiential days through visits and projects. Careers Wheels Extreme
Enterprise
Visits to John Moores university. University taster days, careers fair
College taster days
Led by qualified instructors who discuss their careers
Grow 20 project, buying and selling
Have an understanding of the career and the requirements of this career (accredited learning, HEI) this will be done through research and also through visit day. Literacy Citizenship
Visits and volunteering at the Dutch farm Students will be taught about business start-up and entrepreneurship and will engage with such projects that allow for this to be developed on a personal level. PSHE Maths
Citizenship
Pupils engage in multiple collapsed curriculum activities with the purpose of designing / making/ running events for financial profit (for example, Christmas and Summer fair) -
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Employability Curriculum Subject and Thematic Links Activities The local labour market and the potential gaps within Liverpool and have access to opportunities to explore these areas should their career and aspiration plans match the gaps locally. PSHE Life Skills
Our City
Our World
Open awards Employability and professional development
Careers assemblies
Research tasks on jobsites Visits to workplaces
Talks from people in different industries
Careers assemblies
Careers day
Careers fair
Students learning will allow them to be fully immersed within the types of jobs that are within The Liverpool City Region Growth Sectors. They will have experiential opportunities to work with employers from within each of the eight areas of growth identified by The Liverpool City Region (https://www.liverpoollep.org/growth-sectors/) and will gain first-hand experience from employers, both in school but also on site. -
- Advance Manufacturing
- Digital and Creative
- Health and Life Sciences
- Innovation
- Low Carbon
- Professional and Business Services
- Superport
- Visitor Economy
ICT Science
PSHE
Open awards Employability and professional development
Life skills
Careers Assemblies
Visits to Fiddlers Ferry United Utilities talks
Science research tasks
ICT designing tasks/exploring software
Careers assemblies
Work experience
Students will be taught and equipped with broad range of skills for the areas of work that they have identified within their personal aspiration plans. These skills will be transferable to society and the roles within it. They will have demonstrated the knowledge to use the skills in an effective way that allows for progression within a business. English Maths
Science
ICT
PSHE
Open awards Employability and professional development
Units: Appraisals and setting targets/ Reviewing your situation/ Personal skills audit Filling in application forms
Writing CV’s / CV work book
Reading job person specifications
Email skills- sending forms/cvs
Researching their chosen career and what skills they needs
Vocational profiling
Skills assessment
Linking with other schools
Industry links such as Jaguar Landrover
Students will benefit from being able to identify their own gaps in knowledge and understanding of a job skill set and seek out opportunities to develop further the skills that they are not equipped with or feel secure in using. These skills will be highlighted as targets and students will have the opportunity to develop these skills within a practical context. Maths Target sheets in books
My Plan
Open awards Employability and professional development
Units: Planning for progression / Personal skills audit Discussing gaps in knowledge with pupils
Target sheets used to highlight gaps in knowledge
Sharing gaps in knowledge with parents
CIAG
Rules and have a clear understanding of what is right and wrong and the implications of each of these PSHE Behaviour charts
Life Skills
Golden rules
Assemblies
Unit: Dealing with difficult situations at work Discussion of morals
Research and work on laws
Embedding golden rules
Assemblies
Students will be taught how to seek out job opportunities, including looking at recruitment processes and will have an understanding of the process they will be required to engage in. They will also have an understanding that different roles require a different process of application. ICT English/Drama
Life Skills
Open awards Employability and professional development
Units: Job search / CV writing / Job application Exploring jobsites
Meetings with job coach
Role playing interviews
Industry research
College applications
KS5 Mock application process
Students will be taught how to apply for jobs and the requirements for a job application English ICT
Open awards Employability and professional development
CIAG
Units: Job search / CV writing / Job application Open awards Employability and professional development
Practise application form written and online
Creating a bank of information to be used on forms address, DOB etc.
Students will be taught about how to prepare for an interview Life Skills Drama
Open awards Employability and professional development
CIAG
Unit: Preparing for a job interview Discussing what questions will be asked
Role playing
Looking at body language
Manners/politeness
12 common interview questions
Peer interviewing
Students will be taught about how to interview and will work with school staff and employers to have experiences of interviews Life Skills Drama
CIAG
Job coaches
Open awards Employability and professional development
Unit: Preparing for a job interview Interviews with job coach
Practise interviews with the class team
Talks from recruitment agencies
Students will be taught about contractual agreements and their right to unions and the support that will be put into place. PSHE Life Skills
Open awards Employability and professional development
Unit: Understanding professional relationships Research unions
Discuss why we have them
Look at current news articles involving unions
Explore what support unions give
How to join a union
Students will be taught about legislation that supports them within the workplace. Life Skills Open awards Employability and professional development
Unit: Recognising and supporting Equality and diversity within the workplace Explore legislation
Make pupils aware of national living wage
Role of HR – Talk from HR professional
Students will be taught about disciplinary procedures within a workplace and the implications of this on their career prospects. Life Skills Open awards Employability and professional development
Unit: Dealing with difficult situations in work Staff modelling good behaviour around the workplace
Role playing
Looking at scenarios
Workplace laws
Explore what is expected in the workplace
Visits to different workplaces
Talks from managers and what they expect from employees
Students will be taught about keeping their personal information safe. Life Skills ICT
Open awards Employability and professional development
Scenarios Importance of passwords/ web safety session
NSPCC – Safer online activities
The roles played by public institutions and voluntary groups in society and to get involved in activities that allow expose to such groups. Open awards Employability and professional development Fire cadets
Careers assemblies
Fire cadets programme Careers day
Careers assemblies – meeting professionals
The functions and uses of money and how to budget, with a clear link to income and expenditure and independent living Open awards Employability and professional development Maths
Life skills
Enterprise – Grow 20
Unit: Managing your money / Understanding your pay Enterprise activities such as PNG café.
Budgets for school activities such as Christmas fayre and summer fayres.
Profiling celebrity job roles and their income/expenditure
Students will be taught how to independently travel and when ready will undertake travel training with the support of LCC and the school Job Coach. Independent travel training programme Parents embedding at home
Bespoke programme ranging from 3 weeks – 3 months Students will be taught about the options available to them at the end of KS4 (Supported Internships, Apprenticeships, paid employment, FE, KS5) Open awards Employability and professional development Careers assemblies
CIAG
Job coach
Unit: Understanding progression opportunities HEI visits and taster days
Careers fairs
Tasters at colleges
Talks from interns and job coach
Talks from local colleges
Through the above, students will have a coherent a career plan that will enable progression and also identify opportunities to immerse themselves in practical experiences that allow for the skill set used and explored further. Open awards Employability and professional development CIAG
Mencap the right place
Units: Personal skills auditing Expand on career plan through 121’s with careers leaders/job coach.
Mencap the right place activities
121 with staff team
Students will be taught explicitly about the Higher Education Sector with clear links to their chosen career, but also gaining experiential days through visits and projects. Life skills Careers assemblies
HEI visits to local university’s as well as local colleges to represent a wide range of options for a wide range of learners. Taster days at LCC/ Greenbank.
Have an understanding of their chosen career and the requirements of this career (accredited learning, HEI) Life skills CIAG meetings
Industry research tasks Career mapping
Students will be taught about business start-up and entrepreneurship and will engage with a project as a class that will promote entrepreneurship within Key Stage 4. Grow 20 Life skills
By entrepreneurship activities and tasks such as; The apprentice
Cuppa new Guinea
Summer and winter fairs
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- KS5 Employability Curriculum Links+
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Employability Curriculum Subject and Thematic Links Activities The local labour market and the potential gaps within Liverpool and have access to opportunities to explore these areas should their career and aspiration plans match the gaps locally. PSHE Life Skills
Our City
Our World
Open awards Employability and professional development
Careers assemblies
Asdan Employability
Community days
Units: Career exploration Research tasks on jobsites
Visits to workplaces
Talks from people in different industries
Careers assemblies
Careers day
Careers fair
Students learning will allow them to be fully immersed within the types of jobs that are within The Liverpool City Region Growth Sectors. They will have experiential opportunities to work with employers from within each of the eight areas of growth identified by The Liverpool City Region (https://www.liverpoollep.org/growth-sectors/) and will gain first-hand experience from employers, both in school but also on site. -
- Advance Manufacturing
- Digital and Creative
- Health and Life Sciences
- Innovation
- Low Carbon
- Professional and Business Services
- Superport
- Visitor Economy
ICT Science
PSHE
Asdan employability
Life skills
Careers Assemblies
Community days
Units: Career exploration / Exploring job opportunities Visits to Mersey travel
Visits to Apple
Careers day
Science research tasks
ICT designing tasks/exploring software
Careers assemblies
Work experience
Students will be taught and equipped with broad range of skills for their Supported Internship or intended destination. They will be able to demonstrate the skills needed for a particular job and industry and they will be able to use the skills in an effective way that allows for progression within a business. Asdan employability EL2/EL3/L1 Pearsons Introduction to the hospitality industry EL3
BTEC EL3/L1 in Business administration
BTEC EL3/L1 in Land based studies
Community days
Careers assemblies
Mencap – The right place
Units: Learning through work experience Career aspiration plan
Skills analysis
CIAG meetings
Meet the interns workshop
Intern employer talks
Intern taster days
College visits
Work experience
Students will benefit from being able to identify their own gaps in knowledge and understanding of a job skill set and seek out opportunities to develop further the skills that they are not equipped with or feel secure in using. These skills will be highlighted as targets and students will have the opportunity to develop these skills within a practical context. Asdan employability EL2/EL3/L1 Pearsons Introduction to the hospitality industry EL3
BTEC EL3/L1 in Business administration
BTEC EL3/L1 in Land based studies
CIAG
Mencap – The right place
Units: Using advice and guidance/ Skills analysis
Industry research
Careers trips
Work experience
My plans
Reviewing
Work experience
Students will be taught how to seek out job opportunities, including looking at recruitment processes and will have an understanding of the process they will be required to engage in. They will also have an understanding that different roles require a different process of application. Asdan employability EL2/EL3/L1 Community days
CIAG
Units: Exploring job opportunities Job searches
Job applications
CV workbook
Students will be taught about what a Supported Internship is and its structure so that they can make an informed decision about their path in year 13. CIAG Job coaches
Careers assemblies CIAG
Meet the interns
Intern employer talk
Intern employer visit
Intern employer taster day
Students will be taught about Apprenticeship option and this will be linked to the Growth Strategy as set out by The Liverpool City Region, but also the local demand from employers and training providers. Asdan employability EL2/EL3/L1 Life skills
Community days
Apprenticeship hub talk Careers assemblies
Small group discussions
Careers fair
Students will be taught about how to prepare for an interview and will gain real life expose to this through the above application process. Asdan employability EL2/EL3/L1 Life skills
Units: Applying for a job / Exploring job opportunities Mock interviews
Peer interviewing
15 most common interview questions work sheets
Students will be taught about how to interview and will work with school staff and employers to have a formal interview for their year 13 placement. Asdan employability EL2/EL3/L1 Life skills
Units: Applying for a job Mock interviews
Peer interviewing
15 most common interview questions work sheets
Head boy and girl interviews
Interviews for Internships
College interviews
Class teacher interviews
Students will be taught about contractual agreements and their right to unions and the support that will be put into place and legislation that supports them. Students will be taught about disciplinary procedures within a workplace and the implications of this on their career prospects.
Students will be taught about the performance management cycle that takes place within a workplace and understand why reviews take place.
Asdan employability EL2/EL3/L1 Asdan employability EL2/EL3/L1
Units: Rights and responsibilities in the workplace Research on trade unions
Talk from HR professional
Equality and diversity and protected characteristics
Golden rules
My plans – Student Understanding
Annual reviews – Student understanding
HR talk – Professional
Students will be taught how to have difficult conversations Asdan employability EL2/EL3/L1 Life skills
Golden rules
Assemblies
Units: Tackling problems at work / Working with others / communicating with others at work Scenarios
Role play
Students will be taught about keeping their personal information safe. ICT Asdan employability
NSPCC keeping children safer online
NSPCC lesson activities Scenarios
Social stories
The roles played by public institutions and voluntary groups in society and to get involved in activities that allow expose to such groups. Fire cadet programme Careers day
Asdan employability
Community day
Units: Exploring job opportunities Fire cadets
Careers day
Careers assemblies
The functions and uses of money and how to budget, with a clear link to income and expenditure and independent living Life skills Community day
Maths Functional skills
Units: Working with numbers / Participating in an enterprise activity Budget planning for enterprise activities
Apprentice challenge
Students will be taught how to independently travel and will undertake travel training with the support of LCC and the school Job Coach as this will be an expectation of being accepted onto a year 13 placement within Abbot’s Lea School. Independent travel training programme Parents embedding at home
-Independent travel training programme from 3 weeks – 3 months.
– Community days – Using public transport.
Students will be taught about the options available to them at the end of year 12 and year 13 (Supported Internships, Apprenticeships, Traineeship paid employment, FE) CIAG 121 and group work Asdan employability
Community days
One2one career plan with Career lead College open days
Career fairs
Assemblies
Transition sessions
Taster days
Through the above, students will have a coherent a career plan that will enable progression and also identify opportunities to immerse themselves in practical experiences that allow for the skill set used and explored further. Asdan employability CIAG
CIAG 121
My plans
Units: Planning and reviewing My plans
Vocational profiling
Students will be taught explicitly about the Higher Education Sector with clear links to their chosen career, but also gaining experiential days through visits and projects. Community days Students get the option for a taster day at Liverpool John mores university and Liverpool university Students will be taught about business start-up and entrepreneurship and will engage with a project as a class that will promote entrepreneurship within Key Stage 5. Grow 20 Life skills
Asdan employability
Units: Enterprise skills / Participating in an enterprise activity Engaging in a class project such as;
Juice café
Summer fair
Winter fair
Prom
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