Lift Green Way

Careers and aspirations

Careers Statement of Intent:

"Our Green lives careers provision exposes all young people to a range of meaningful encounters and experiences that will empower them and appropriately prepare them for their next stage of development. Our approach ensures that every young person is given the opportunity to develop the skills, knowledge, qualities and character needed to make fully informed decisions about their future, manage their career"

Our Aim

The aim of Lift Green Way’s careers strategy is to raise aspirations of all pupils by introducing them to a wealth of career opportunities out there. This will be achieved through visits into school from members of the workforce.

This is not about asking every child to decide at age 4, 7 or 11 what job they want to do - it is about encouraging exploration, providing inspiration, challenging stereotypes and increasing aspirations.
As a school we want to create a systematic approach, increasing visibility and enhancing opportunities.

Why do we do this?

Children have their first aspirations aged 3-4 years

By the age of 7 children are beginning to think about what they can and cannot do because of their gender.

Being more aware about higher education by age 10 means a child is over twice as likely to end up at a more competitive university than someone who was first exposed in their late teens.

Children make career limiting decisions by age 10, which they solidify by age 14.

The child of a parent working in a higher professional or managerial job is 20 times more likely to end up in a similarly high status role than a child with a working class parent is to end up in a professional job.
Young adults who recall 4 or more encounters with employers while at school are 5 times less likely to be NEET and earn 16% more than their peers who could not recall those encounters.

Business surveys indicate that 65%-80% employers feel that when young people leave school they are not prepared for the workplace and lack essential workplace skills.

The World Economic Forum conclude that ‘our children’s career aspirations have nothing common with the jobs of the future’ and ‘young people are unable to understand the breadth of job opportunities needed across the economy and this can lead to unrealistic aspirations’

37% of young people are worried about coping when they progress into work

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The Gatsby Benchmarks

Our careers programme will be underpinned by ‘The Gatsby Benchmarks’

A stable careers programme
Learning from career and labour market information
Addressing the needs of each pupil
Linking curriculum learning to careers
Encounters with employers & employees
Experiences of workplaces
Encounters with Further Education & Higher Education
Personal Guidance

- The 'Pathways' strand is about increasing pupils exposure to information, encounters, opportunities and experiences that will to raise aspirations

- Inspire students about their futures: develop their awareness, harness their passions, take part in inspirational experiences and explore the world.

- Ensure pupils are not held back from pursuing their passions or achieving their goals because of stereotypical or self imposed barriers or a lack of opportunities.

- Enhance social capital by wrapping a professional network of support around each child, timed and targeted to meet their individual needs

- Empower students to tackle barries that stand in their way, so they can take advantage of and shape their own opportunities

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Lift Green Way Careers Journal

Each child in the school will have a ‘careers journal’. This will be used at the start and end of each year to document their dreams and aspirations for the future. They will log the careers they want to pursue in the future.

The journal will also be used to document any kind of experiences they have had with the world of work. This could be a guest speaker, a trip and the like.

This journal will follow them through school and show their career journey from EYFS to Year 6.

At Lift Green Way we believe that all students are remarkable and pledge that by the end of their time with us they will have been offered a GREEN life experience.