How to achieve Gatsby Benchmark 4

Each department has a subject page on this portal! You will find websites, videos and activities that you can add into your schemes of work to help you achieve GB4, plus you can ask Sally Emler or Lynne Luckman for help.

Department Careers Weeks

You will also be give one week in the school calendar as your DEPARTMENT CAREERS WEEK. During this you can highlight the skills and qualities students will learn during your subject. You can also organise trips, speakers and events as well

Employability Skills

during your week we would like you to not only talk about the careers students could go into linked to your subject but also the employability skills that they developing. The Hertfordshire Framework was made by employers to show schools which skills and qualities employers are looking for.

The skills we would like you to highlight in your lessons are

• Motivation & ambition

• Confidence

• Respect & good manners

• Adaptability

• Team work

• Problem Solving skills

Google slides

Use these slides in your presentations or in students digital work books. They can be found in the template section of Google Slides

Starters & plenaries

• Talk about post 14, post 16 pathways in your subject

• Which jobs DON'T need English*?

• What jobs do you think I have had?

• Name a job that links with History* - can you get a job that no one else can?

• Job alphabet - name a job for every letter of the alphabet that is linked to Spanish*

• Job hangman

• Watch a video to do with jobs and the topic you are studying. e.g physiotherapy if you are studying sports injuries - Unifrog, Careers Pilot and BBC bitesize all have good video

Homework

• Use Unifrog to research different jobs linked to your subject

• What is the most interesting job you can find to do with your subject

• Find out the highest paid jobs to do with your subject

• Research a famous person connected to your subject, how did thy get started?

• Watch a video about jobs in your subject

• Ask students to pick a career, and write a piece on how what they’re doing in your lessons at the moment links to that careers

• Interview a family member about their job / career

Trips and visits

Even if your trip is not specifically about careers e.g watching a professional football match, you can make a link to careers by

• allocating 20 mins to a Q&A session for students to ask the host about how they got into their job.

• set students the task of coming up with the longest list of jobs found at the trip venue.

• See if the venue can organise for you to speak to different people who do interesting jobs

Get in a visiting speaker or host a virtual talk

• Ask speakers to come in and give talks – eg. employers linked to your subject area, or people who have studied your subject.

• Ask a visitor to come in and the student has to guess what job the y do by asking them questions

• Bring in a past student to talk about their careers pathway. We are putting together an Alumi which you will soon have access to

• Use Speakers for School and find a virtual talk in their library

Alumni

Clubs

Use your clubs to introduce different career roles

• Reading club - talk about authors, copy writers, book cover designers, proof readers etc

• STEM clubs - link with a local business e.g Airbus, MBDA

• Lego club - talk about structural engineering!

Create a display

Create a display board of careers linked to your subject. A variety of posters can be found in the careers in the classroom google drive

How often should I be doing things?

Career Websites