Careers Bulletin Dean Trust Rose Bridge Vision for

Careers Bulletin Dean Trust Rose Bridge Vision for Careers: At Dean Trust Rose Bridge Careers Education, Information Advice and Guidance is a part of every pupil’s entitlement. We are committed to providing high quality, impartial careers guidance which will help pupils to make informed choices about which courses suit their academic needs and aspirations. We use a variety of learning experiences to help young people manage the key decision points in their lives. The education they receive prepares them to make informed decisions about the next learning or employment stage for them. We value pupil feedback and ask for pupil evaluation after each event. In this way our strategy is continually being reviewed and updated to meet the needs of our learners. Just this week we have re-launched the careers section of our website to showcase all the fantastic opportunities we provide in school, to show case our fantastic pupil voice from this half term and to give parents access to key information to help them support their children in the next stages of their education. We would love parent feedback. What is it you as parents want to be able to find out via our website about our careers provision here at DTRB? Is there anything you want to know that you can’t easily find out from our website? Please speak to Mrs Gibbard if you would like to share your views. Follow the link on our website to see our new and updated DTRB Careers Strategy and Guidance Booklet

Curriculum to Careers Initiative: Within all lessons, and for all year groups, the importance of careers is explicitly taught as part of our ‘Curriculum to Careers’. This may take the form of Recall 5 activities, home learning opportunities and/or research tasks. Each subject area has a designated member of staff in the role of ‘Careers Champion’, who will ensure that their departments are providing curriculum-related careers opportunities for pupils. English: In English, this half term we have set the pupils a careers based homework. For KS 3 it was recognising correct spellings on a series of careers related vocabulary and for KS 4, it was recognising the difference between formal and informal vocabulary. We have also been playing the “Higher/Lower” game for KS 3 pupils for their R 5 activity. Pupils appreciated this and enjoyed trying to guess the average salary of a variety of occupations. Finally, we have also updated the TV screens with English related careers, and also a celebrity with an English degree/major. Humanities: This half term students in both key stages have been completed homework as part of Curriculum to careers. The quality of the homework has been excellent across the faculty and students are beginning to show great interest in Humanities based careers.

Maths: So far this half term in the maths department have planned a visit from the Lighthouse Project for KS 3, all pupils have completed a R 5 on careers involving maths and completed a maths homework on a career of their choice and how it relates to maths. We also featured maths jobs on the TVs in school. Finally all Year 9 pupils participated in the UKMT maths challenge and all involved were fantastic and a credit to the school.

Science: We used a literacy article about the careers involved with the Australian bushfire completed with all KS 3 classes within the half term, then asked pupils to research a career mentioned in the article for homework. Year 10’s completed a human genome project homework that fits into the genetics biology topic being taught. We also discussed estate agents with Y 10 when looking at thermal imaging photos of houses and how they are used when trying to sell a house. Child Development: KS 4 pupils have been taught careers lessons about Midwifery and the first stages of a child being born and their roles of a paediatrician, obstetrician and gynaecologist. They also completed a homework to research a career linked to child development and watched short video clips all about how our studies link to careers in the NHS.

University and Apprenticeship Event: On Friday 7 th February 40 students visited Old Trafford to gain advice and information from some of the top University and apprenticeship schemes. Behaviour and engagement were excellent on the visit. Well done to all involved. The Way Programme: Some of our Year 9 and 10 pupils are continuing with their fortnightly visits to take part in the Way Programme at St John Rigby College. Our governor Mr Calderbank joined them on their last visit and was able to see pupils flying drones, learning about unusual animals and their effects on habitats, physiotherapy massages, the chemistry of smells as well as many other activities. Brilliant Club- Scholars programme: In the Autumn/winter term Year 9 More able students took part in the Scholars programme. The Scholars programme places a university researcher (Ph. D student) in schools to give pupils an experience of university style learning. Our students completed an assignment based on English Literature called “Writing to the Grotesque – an insight into Southern literature” Our students worked extremely hard on a challenging topic and gained some great results. 1 st - Performing to an excellent standard at A level 2: 1 - Performing to a good standard at A level 2: 2 - Performing to an excellent GCSE standard 3 rd - Performing to a good standard at GCSE. Student Hannah Joe Ryan Holly Archie Jessica Adam Aaron Holly Grade Achieved Barnes Baxter Burney Howarth Goodwin Murdoch Lloyd Woodcock Soley 2. 1 3 rd 2. 2 1 st 2. 1 2. 2 3 rd 2. 2

Year 9 STEM Day: The Year 9 pupils were faced with the task of building a form of transport to carry supplies to the helicopter to be taken to the next checkpoint. Year 9 students all came up with individual designs and they then had to programme them to negotiate their way through obstacles to ensure their cargo was intact. Some teams managed this better than others but they all definitely developed their team work, STEM skills and provided career pathways for some of our students. A massive thank you to the British Army for making this available to us and especially Jack who came in and delivered the session! A brilliant experience for our pupils. Pupil Feedback:

Year 10 Medical Mavericks: On Tuesday 11 th February we welcomed the Medical Mavericks workshop to Dean Trust Rose Bridge. Our pupils experienced the different educational career pathways needed to achieve their dream job (and salary!) They had the opportunity to take blood from a fake arm, record their own ECG, try keyhole surgery and see inside their body with an ultrasound machine. We hope we have inspired the next generation of medics and scientists by experiencing real medical science equipment, future Doctor’s pending. . Pupil Feedback:

Year 10 My Perfect University Day: The students were set the task to create a new university which is looking to launch in September 2020. In their teams, they needed to consider everything they already know about University and what they would want out of a perfect university. They will also needed to consider the business side of the University including the logo, branding, promotion and their key offers. Pupil Feedback: The winning group was:

Year 11 Wigan and Leigh Interviews: Wigan and Leigh College staff have visited school to run the second set of interviews for Y 11 who have applied for courses there. The team ensure that pupils are offered an opportunity to confirm course choice decisions, discuss any issues of concern and also ensure that the correct support is in place. We are very proud of the mature way our Y 11 pupils behaved and approached this process. Any pupils who were absent, will be offered one further opportunity to have an interview in school. Careers Cafes: We had a guest speaker form the Lighthouse Project who spoke our Year 9 pupils about the importance of gaining an education young and about how hard it is to try and achieve qualifications later in life. It was a great session and the students commented on how nice it was to speak to someone who was honest about their time in education who was not a teacher. The PDSA visited school recently to run a lunch-time careers café for pupils who are interested in animal careers, including veterinary. Rebecca, a veterinary nurse, explained about opportunities with the PDSA and methods of approaching animal careers. Pupils attending had some fantastic questions for her. Our next careers café is after half term, when we have a nurse visiting school, so any pupils interested need to tell their form tutors so hat they are able to attend. Parents we need you! A huge thank you to parents who have already offered their help with careers activities, such as careers cafes and mock interviews, but if there any other parents who are able to assist and share information about their own profession/industry, please contact school as we would love to hear from you. Upcoming Events: We are very busy over the next two terms with careers event and activities, including National Careers Week when we have a wealth of visitors coming in the school every day to deliver assemblies and careers cafes. Y 10 assemblies will continue with visits from colleges ready to help prepare pupils in making their choices for this autumn’s college/apprenticeship applications. Year 9 forces assemblies kicked off this week with the Navy and will continue with the RAF and army soon. We are also in the planning stages of numerous career-related visits to universities, industries, Y 10 taster days at local colleges and skills/apprenticeship events.