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Dame Allan’s Favourite Websites
Dame Allan’s Favourite Websites
Expert & impartial online careers guidance. Morrisby helps people make better choices following psychometric assessment and interests questionnaire. CV builder, work experience applications and insight records all in one place. Also LMI within each career search.(Student Login)
The easy way for students to choose the best universities and apprenticeships for them, student activity records and for teachers tracking of progress.(Student Login)
Advice on career options after A level, tips on school leaver schemes and apprenticeships. Help making the right uni choice.
Career advice for schools, colleges and students aged 13-19. Search jobs, advice & find out about employers, work experience, courses, career choices.
Search careers via subjects.
Get ideas for your future with free career videos, job information, plus The Buzz personality quiz and advice on career options and the world of work.
Where GCSE, A Level and university students share academic and social knowledge: from study help, to choosing a university, careers, and student life.
NHS Careers
Skills Quiz
Skills Quiz
Skillsometer can help you discover what jobs you might like to do in the future. You will be presented with a series of statements. Select the emoji that shows how you feel about each statement. You will be given suggestions of jobs linked to what you most enjoy doing.
Careerometer
Careerometer
Careerometer can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations, help you learn about different occupations and identify potential careers - data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects for different occupations, as well as description of the occupation.
Simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you. You can then look up another two occupations and compare. You can also select ‘display the UK average’ and compare the information with the occupation you have selected.
Future is a careers and lifestyle magazine for 14-19 year olds. Available online and in school for free.
Career Choices
Career Choices
Choosing your career
Start here if you don’t yet have specific careers in mind and want help generating ideas. https://targetcareers.co.uk/careers-advice/choosing-your-career
Types of career
Get detailed information on 12 key career areas, including what they involve, the different jobs available, how much they pay, how to get into them and whether they would suit you. https://targetcareers.co.uk/career-sectors
A–Z of jobs
A–Z of jobs
Find job descriptions and information on entry routes for specific jobs with this A–Z. https://targetjobs.co.uk/careers-advice/job-descriptions
Parent Specific Websites
Parent Specific Websites
Careers Advice For Parents
Information for parents helping your child with career decisions
Parents and Carers
Parental Guidance
Parent Adviser
Labour Market Information
Labour Market Information
The research examined ten priority sectors that form the backbone of Britain’s economic future, and found alarming skills gaps across all of them:
The 8 Industrial Strategy Growth-Driving Sectors:
Advanced Manufacturing
Clean Energy Industries
Creative Industries
Defence
Digital and Technologies
Financial Services
Life Sciences
Professional and Business Services
Plus 2 Additional Critical Sectors:
Construction (essential for 1.5 million homes target)
Health and Adult Social Care (facing demographic pressures)
Dame Allan's Virtual Futures Fair
Dame Allan's Virtual Futures Fair
Eco Careers - My Green Future
Eco Careers - My Green Future
Our Futures Fair included sustainability eg Sevcon brought an electric car in 2014 and an electric motorbike in 2016
In NCW 2020 I held the Eco Fair to develop students' awareness of sustainability and the environment. The organisations that joined us were-
Catapult-Offshore renewable energy
North East LEP-Energy Innovation Partnership
The Environment Agency
Sea Pigs-Beach and Lifestyle Products-Carbon Positive and Zero Waste
Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd
Tesco- Climate Change Manager (Allanian alumna Briony Waugh gave a presentation to our Sixth Formers)
Principal's blog about Dame Allan's focus on Sustainability- Small Steps-Big Changes 2020.
We participate in the Eco Schools programme and have Green Flag status. Forest School and the Environment are so important from Juniors into Seniors.
In Juniors-
Classes held in the School’s outdoor classroom - “Woodland Way”- and in the recently installed yurt encourage children to explore and be adventurous. Both facilities are central to the School’s exciting Skogsmulle programme, a Swedish educational initiative which centres around a fantasy figure who informs children about nature through play and song. (Chronicle)
Our current Senior School site new build 2021-22 includes-
The environmental elements of the project will include a large living wall on the North side of the school, with electric charging points for vehicles. (Northern Echo Chronicle).
Find Your Future Form Time mini careers curriculum is themed around the UNSDGs and we look forward to our Green Futures Fair in October 2022.
Work Experience / Part time / Summer Jobs
Work Experience / Part time / Summer Jobs
Some students start virtual work experience from Year 9 - see www.springpod.com
Yr 10 write their CV's in the summer term and in Year 11 autumn term they write their letters of application for Work Experience.
They apply for Work Experience in the autumn term of Yr 11 for the following year - last week of June is recommended after GCSEs.
We expect all students to attend a placement or two totalling 5 days in Year 10/11, and a further 5 days in the holidays of Year 12/13
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