For more information about our Career Policy Statutory Duty, Gatsby Benchmarks and provider access, please see below.

The school contact for Careers Education, Information, Advice, and Guidance (CEIAG) is:

Mr M Searles - Assistant Principal, Personal Development PSRE
Tel: 0191 421 2244
Email: martyn.searles@consilium-at.com

OR

Jodie Longstaff - Career Coordinator

Miss Longstaff is a Level 6 qualified careers adviser, having had over three years of experience working in our Consilium schools as a careers adviser. 

Miss Longstaff provides individual 1:1 careers guidance for pupils, and all pupils in Y11 are offered a careers guidance appointment to discuss their post-16 options. Miss Longstaff also interviews Y9 pupils ahead of KS4 option choices, and Y10 pupils in the summer term to prepare for their final school year. Y7 and Y8 pupils are also able to request careers interviews. Parents and carers are welcome to request and accompany their son/daughter to a careers meeting with Miss Longstaff by contacting the school to arrange this. 

Should any employers or providers wish to contact Miss Longstaff they can be in touch by emailing jodie.longstaff@consilium-at.com

Have you thought about your future? College? Sixth Form? Apprenticeship? What is your ideal job? What careers interest you?

Consilium Academies is working with its schools to develop appropriate access arrangements which make sure all students have the chance to access a range of opportunities that provide advice and guidance on careers, including academic and technical qualifications and apprenticeships.

Our preference is to provide events that cover all opportunities and allow students to receive a balanced approach to career guidance. During this period of development, Heworth Grange School will allow access to recognised education and training providers to talk to students in Years 8-11 about appropriate approved programmes. The provider should email their request to the email address on the contact us page of the website, providing a range of dates and an overview of what will be offered. Unless this coincides with a scheduled career event, any additional opportunities will be offered to students & their parents at the end of the school day. Providers should be prepared to produce information, flyers, and presentations for students and parents in advance of the event as well as contact information as the school/trust will not be able to operate as a broker/manage attendance registers etc.

For any stakeholders - including employers, colleges, universities, apprenticeship providers, alumni or parents -  wishing to support our CEIAG programme at Heworth Grange School, please see our Provider Access Statement to find out more.

Our School CEIAG policy can be found below:

 

Statutory Duty

Heworth Grange School has a responsibility to ensure all registered students at the school are provided with independent career guidance from year 8 (12-13) to year 11 (15-16) (Education Act 1997, section 2A). Our programme is reviewed annually using a number of methods to evaluate the programme. Future Skills Questionnaire, Compass + evaluation tool and this academic year we will also be trialling the Career Impact Review System framework. 

• It must be provided in an impartial manner.
• It should explore the range of educational or training options, including apprenticeships and other vocational pathways.
• Advice should promote the students’ best interests.

Heworth Grange School is required to ensure that there is an opportunity for a range of education and training providers to access students in years 8 to 11 for the purposes of informing them about approved technical education, qualifications or apprenticeships.

We also have a Provider Access Policy that outlines the circumstances in which education and training providers will be given access to these students. (Education Act 1997, section 42B)

Heworth Grange School endeavours to follow the best practising guidance from the Department of Education and other expert and professional bodies.

How We Meet Statutory Duty

Education Act 1997, section 2A

As well as our Learning for Life curriculum, Heworth Grange provides students with access to some external sources of career guidance.  This includes:

• Careers Fairs
• Employer visits and talks
• College and university visits
• Work experience
• Impartial career advice and guidance interviews
• Please refer to our Careers and IAG Policy for more information.
• Intent Document Intent, Implementation and Impact

Provider Access Education Act 1997, section 42B

Any education, training or apprenticeship provider wishing to request access should contact Martyn Searles. The provider should email their request to: martyn.searles@consilium-at.com 

The provider should work with the school to organise a range of dates and an overview of what will be offered. Provider Access Policy

Careers Programme

As well as statutory duty, Heworth Grange School’s Careers Programme is guided by the updated eight Gatsby Benchmarks of Good Career Guidance. Heworth Grange School endeavours to continually improve career provision and achieve the Gatsby Benchmarks. We use the Careers Compass +, Morrisby Careers and North East Ambitions audit tracker tools to monitor our practice against the Gatsby Benchmarks. 

We Monitor & Evaluate Our Provision

• We collect student, teacher, provider, employer, and parental feedback on CEIAG experiences.
  • This is done by:
    • Feedback and evaluation forms
    • Student Voice
    • Text/Email requests
    • Participation/attendance figures
• We monitor NEET figures to assess the impact of our provision
  • This is done by:
    • Recording destination information
    • Reporting information to and working with the Local Authority
    • Working with local Post 16 providers
• We report our findings to our Governing Body and Consilum Academies Trust.
  • This is done by:
    • Meetings on a half-term basis
    • Summary updates
    • Annual reports

How you as an employer can help us…

As an employer, you can play a significant part in helping us achieve our goal.

If you are interested in providing any of the following, we would be delighted to hear from you.

• Work Experience
• Careers Talks
• Student Mentoring
• Offering a work place visit
• Providing resources/sponsorships

At Heworth Grange School, we value the importance of careers education, information and guidance (CEIAG) to support our pupils in realising their potential and the routes they can take after their GCSEs. We want to ensure our pupils have the opportunity to explore their career ideas and the pathways available to them through a variety of interactions and activities, both here in school and externally through our excellent network of partners and employers. 

We strive to ensure our Careers Education & Guidance programme at Armthorpe Academy meets all the standards outlined in the 8 Gatsby benchmarks: 

1. A stable careers programme
2. Learning from career and labour market information
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers
5. Encounters with employers and employees
6. Experiences of workplaces
7. Encounters with further and higher education
8. Personal guidance 

Please click the link below to learn more about how you can support our students.