Careers

Here at Lady Lumley’s School we provide all our students with a wide range of careers provision, from Year 7 through to Year 13.  Through our joined-up thinking, we utilise our Personal Development curriculum to cover a range of career-based units of work delivered primarily through the Life curriculum, as well as .  This includes identified learning objectives and outcomes, which are achieved through related activities.  Alongside this our students have a number of opportunities to experience work-related activities both within the school environment and through external visits.

We employ a work experience coordinator who is based in school on a weekly basis.  The work experience coordinator provides our students with one-to-one careers support, advice and guidance.  All students will be given interviews with the work experience coordinator during their time here at Lady Lumley’s School.  However, they can book extra drop in sessions if they wish.

External Providers

Here at Lady Lumley’s School we liaise with a number of external providers, such as NYBEP, local universities and the local employers.  However, we are always looking for opportunities to further broaden access to information, advice and guidance.  We therefore welcome continued input from both existing and new providers.  If you feel you would like to come into school to talk to our students about your service or any upcoming opportunities for our students. 

Local Enterprise Coordinator and Advisor Link

Here at Lady Lumley’s School we realise the importance of collaboration, which is why we work in association with The Careers and Enterprise Company.  Through this we have a designated Local Enterprise Coordinator and Advisor who work alongside the career co-ordinator in school, helping to ensure we provide effective work and career experiences for our students. 

The Careers and Enterprise Company network is made up of Enterprise Coordinators and Enterprise Advisers.  Enterprise Coordinators support a group of senior business volunteers, known as Enterprise Advisers, who they match with one of the school or colleges in the network.

Enterprise Advisers use their knowledge of the local business landscape to support the head teacher or careers team to develop an effective careers plan and to create opportunities with their business contacts in the area for their school or college’s students.

Your Careers Entitlement

As a student at Lady Lumley’s School, your careers programme will be based around the government’s Gatsby Benchmarks:

(https://www.gatsby.org.uk/education/focus-areas/good-career-guidance)

Your careers delivery and content will be delivered through Life lessons, during tutor time as well as working with external providers.  The related activities vary across a range of subject areas.  These can be seen at the end of this document. 

How do we measure the impact of our careers programme?