STAFF
Miss E Carroll - Head of Department
‘Learn More Earn More’
The central aim of careers education in Brownlow Integrated College is to help pupils to acquire the skills, attitudes and abilities they will need to chart their path through life with confidence and to be effective in a variety of adult roles and spheres of life.
What employers look for in an employee:
Commitment
Passion
A team player
People who want a career
GCSEs
KEY STAGE 3
Year 8
Employability Module
1 period per week
- Personal skills and qualities
- Work in the global and local economy
- Enterprise and entrepreneurship
Year 10
Careers Education
1 period per week
- Careers classification
- GCSE choices/personal careers planning.
- The Changing World of Work
Key Stage 4
Careers Education
1 Period per week plus GSCE learning for Life and Work
- Post 16 Options
- Personal Career Planning
Year 12
Work Experience
- Year 12 Work experience/placement 1 week in December
- Year 12 Vocational Group every Thursday, September – June
- Individual careers guidance
- Year 12 Careers Service interviews
- Careers Conventions – CBEP
- Careers Speakers eg: Sentinus, Crag-Rats, Aim Higher Bus, Young Enterprise,
C.I.D.O.
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm”.
Vincent Lombardi
