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)
We have been fortunate to receive the Careers Wales quality mark. The 'Mark' is an award designed by Careers Wales to recognise a commitment to continuous quality improvement within an educational institution to meet with the Welsh Government's requirements that are set out in the Careers and the World of Work: a framework for 11-19 year-olds in Wales.
The programme is designed to equip young people with the skills they will need in order to manage their working life, whether they leave education at 16, 18 or 21 so that they have the most up-to-date knowledge and understanding of working practices to make effective career choices.
Furthermore, we would like to make you aware of the Careers Wales website (see below). This is a very useful website that can provide our learners with a wide variety of information ranging from:
Job vacancies
Apprenticeships
Further education courses
Current and future demand by job sector
Job matching quiz
Tools and resources such as CV writing and practicing job applications
At Careers Wales we can help you to plan your career, prepare to get a job, and find and apply for the right apprenticeships, courses and training.
Our website is a really useful starting point to plan your future. We work very closely with Maesgwyn and you'll notice that they have successfully achieved the Careers Wales quality mark which means that Maesgwyn takes your future career options very seriously. If you want to take a look at the useful options on our website, then click on the link below. Also, Careers Wales have added some useful links in the document below (i.e. parents and carers: Information to support your child)
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