CAREERS DELIVERY
We deliver Careers, Education, Information, Advice & Guidance ( CEIAG) in many ways across the school including:
- Comprehensive careers-focused mentor sessions.
- Embedded careers into curriculum for all years from 7-13.
- Careers-specific immersion days for all years.
- Extracurricular sessions and soft-skills workshops.
- Extracurricular sessions; CV’s, applications, interviews and assessments.
- Access to CLMI (Careers Labour Market Information).
- Specialist information on all routes post-16 and post-18.
- Access to open evenings, events and study days.
- Access to individual and independent careers advice.
- Dedicated employability site.
- Alumni information.
- Focused post-16 careers week (Y11).
- Noticeboards and video display units across the school showing options and careers information by subject and pathway.
To see how these initiatives are interwoven into our broader curriculum, see below for The Ridgeway School & Sixth Form Learning Journey:
In addition to this, The Ridgeway School and Sixth Form is proud to provide membership for every student to a dedicated careers site for students, giving a user-friendly platform.
Unifrog is ‘the complete destinations platform’ for career research and career skills development. In addition, The Ridgeway School uses Unifrog to help motivate students to work hard towards their goals – thus raising attainment. Unifrog is mapped against the Gatsby Benchmarks and as such helps The Ridgeway School and Sixth Form to deliver outstanding careers guidance in accordance with the new careers strategy.
Throughout their time at the school, all careers-based activity (from interactions and competencies to intentions and interests) is recorded on the individual page. This is delivered by Unifrog:
