Maesgwyn School strives to promote the educational, moral, spiritual and social development of all pupils and to prepare them for life beyond school through a broad, balanced, relevant and coherent curriculum. Every one of our pupils will receive the respect, encouragement and opportunity they need to prepare them for their adult lives. Key to our success is enabling our pupils to develop a strong foundation of well-being with a balance between an academic and vocational ‘hands-on’ curriculum that promotes the life skills that enables our pupils to mature into adult life. We strive to ‘bring out the best’ possible standards in our pupils so that they become effective members of society; the type of adults you would be happy to have as your neighbours.

Careers and the World of Work is integral to achieving this ethos. Our careers provision facilitates relationships between young people, their learning and the world of work, allowing them to see the value of education, skills and accreditation.

The Careers Education and Guidance curriculum is subject to external moderation and accreditation by national award bodies. Maesgwyn has achieved the Careers Wales quality mark and will continue to implement strategies that will ensure retention of this mark.

Furthermore, we are working towards achievement of the Gatsby benchmarks. The eight benchmarks are a framework for good career guidance developed to support schools in providing students with the best possible careers education, information, advice, and guidance. (Please refer below for more guidance on the 8 Gatsby benchmarks)

The Employment, Education and training team have been delivering a Careers and World of Work programme within RCT schools since 2014. Their programme is based on the most recent labour market intelligence for South East Wales to ensure that it is relevant to the pupils of RCT.

The school, supported by the RCT EET team, run a work experience programme for our pupils. Our target is to ensure that our pupils benefit from at least two work experience sessions by the team they leave Maesgwyn.  Our pupils have gained work experience with a wide variety of employers including: Vision products; Elite paper solutions, Rhondda Housing association, Dare Valley riding school, Joy's flowers, ARC Black sheep project, The ARTS factory, The feel good factory, Groundworks project and various community shops