Additional Guidance

Careers Guidance & Education

Our school Careers Zone website is available to students via their school Gmail login. The link to the site is found in the Careers Guidance and Education section of the school website. Our Careers Zone has been designed to be user-friendly and to enable pupils to enjoy researching their careers options in an easy and accessible way. We have provided links to careers sites with searches, videos and quizzes, to help pupils find out about hundreds of different careers and thousands of course choices. 

Year 9 students are being introduced to this site in careers guidance sessions. In these 1:1 sessions with a qualified independent Careers Adviser, students are also introduced to the Job Explorer Database (JED), which is an engaging and motivating online resource, offering an insight into many careers and the world of work. 

JED is available on our Careers Zone. It is user-friendly and enables students to do simple job searches, look at similar job groups together and search for job matches to subjects taken at GCSE. 

Looking ahead, Higher Ideas is also available in our Careers Zone and is a platform which provides independent information about thousands of course choices at hundreds of universities and colleges. Students can select from the A Levels they are planning to take and this will create a list of suggested courses, for example.

Unifrog is a database that we also subscribe to. It has comprehensive information on apprenticeships, university / college courses and other career opportunities. Students will be using this tool as they progress through school. They each have their own student login. 

All students have access to a Careers Advisor for impartial guidance. During their sessions students are guided and supported to explore jobs and courses in order to enable informed subject choices for GCSE. 

Should you require any further information about our careers programme at Hitchin Girls’ School, please contact Clare Towsnend via email: clare.townsend@hgs.herts.sch.uk

Key members of staff who can offer support and guidance

For subject-specific queries it is always helpful to talk to the Head of Department or a key member of teaching staff:

Art & Design Mrs S. Wallace

Biology Mr J. Buckridge

Classical Civilisations & Latin Mrs K. Rowe
Design & Technology Mr T. Mason

Drama Mr K. Balfe

English & Media Mrs S. Batchelor

Geography Mr R. Sutton

History Mr S. Hanse

Computing and Business Mrs E. Symeou

Mathematics Mr B. Alison

Modern Foreign Languages Mr J. Dellar

Music Miss A. Atkins

PE Miss H. Shaw

Philosophy & Ethics Mr B. Adams

Physics Mr A. Derrett

Science / Chemistry Mr C. Horner

Social Sciences Mrs E. Edwards

With general enquiries about the routes, your future aspirations and useful subject combinations, it is helpful to contact the following:

Deputy Headteacher Mr A. Jones

Director of Sixth Form/Assistant HT Ms T. Stojko
SENCO/Assistant Headteacher Mrs L. Cole

Head of Year 9 Miss A. Greenfield

    Independent Careers Advisor     Mrs C. Townsend
    North Herts. Connexions Service     Ms M. Meehan

Your form teachers are also an excellent source of knowledge and experience.