Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) 

Careers Strategy and Framework

In providing CEIAG we will have regard to the Gatsby guidelines and will endeavour to provide:  

1. A rich and informative careers programme with clearly identified aims and events, customised for each year group of the school. 
2. A programme that incorporates the latest information from career and labour market current trends, thus updating pupils on the pathways and study options available to them, particularly in the local area. 
3. Each student with access to guidance and analysis which allows them to discuss their careers and training options for when they leave school. 
4. Relevant information in curriculum subject areas as to how different courses of study lead or predispose towards different careers. 
5. Timely encounters with employers and employees.
6. Work experience in Year 10 for each pupil.  Work experience will additionally be built into vocational programmes of study where appropriate. 
7. Opportunities for pupils in every year group to have encounters with personnel from further and higher education.
8. Personal guidance from an independent and impartial careers advisor (during Year 11). 

We aspire to present information to our pupils in an objective and impartial manner, highlighting the full-range of education and training options including apprenticeships and technical education routes.    This aspect of our programme will begin in Year 8 and continue through to the Sixth Form (the designated age ranges).

We are open to ensuring there are opportunities for a range of bona fide education and training providers to present information to pupils (in the designated age ranges) pertinent to opportunities. Providers wishing to present at the school should contact Mr Ruggiero for a discussion.  We will also keep a library of materials in an accessible place for pupils.  Telephone: 020 8888 7122; email: careers@stthomasmoreschool.org.uk

As there are limited opportunities to speak to pupils we may refuse requests.  

The link to our Statement on Provider Access is here.

Careers Framework

Careers Framework

Careers Programme Overview

Calendar

Monitoring and Evaluation

Maintaining a cycle of planning, activity, monitoring and evaluation throughout the year is an essential part of the quality of careers provision across the school.  Embedding the activities and building on the partnerships already established is central to our programme and working with other interested parties will allow us to develop improved links and provide an enriched and enhanced CEIAG timetable to all students from Year 7 to 13.  

Most of the activities implemented within the school are delivered through the PSHE curriculum (form time based) and events and activities designed in collaboration with external agencies, organisations and employers.  Our focus is therefore on ensuring the quality of provision and using evaluative and summative comments to inform future planning and activities. 

To evaluate our careers programme we need to set out what we want our end results to be, what we want our students to achieve by the end of their full-time education.  The aims of our programme are simple:  

• For our students to know what opportunities are available in the local area 
• For our students to aim for the highest level in all employment, apprenticeships and higher education 
• For students to know the different career pathways / routes they could follow 
• For our students to know what they need to do to follow their chosen career route 

The most important and valuable approach to evaluation is listening to the views of participants in activities organised both internally and externally to the school.  As a school, staff invest a great deal of time planning, resourcing and delivering activities to allow students the opportunity to learn from visitors and their planned experiences, and therefore finding out their views on both the quality of content and the organisation of the activity is essential in future planning and moving forward and ensuring the quality of careers provision across St Thomas More.  We use a variety of methods including online Google Forms and paper-based feedback questionnaires

Once evaluations have been completed, responses are analysed, and the results written into a report format.  These headline statements from the reports are then shared with parents and carers via the newsletter and website. The Governors receive a report each term to update them on the activities we have been involved with and the success of our participation.  Through their involvement it is hoped that we will broaden our outlook on local employment, training and apprenticeship opportunities and help communicate our commitment to raising aspiration and achievement across the school to the wider community. 

Student Destinations 2023/24

Year 13

Year 11 Destinations 2023