Careers
Students
Pre-amble:
There is a multitude of activities to get involved with throughout the year to develop your career education. All houses and curriculum areas link career education to the lessons and tutorials you follow throughout each academic year. Your stable career programme consists of many elements such as:
- Tutorials delivered by your form tutor
- Bespoke assemblies
- Drop down day activities
- World of Work Days
- Careers’ Evenings
- Apprenticeship Evenings
- One to One support from our career advice team
- Visits to College
- External speakers
- Employer Engagement
- Curriculum links to careers
- Virtual Work Experience
- Advice and guidance from higher education
- College drop-in sessions
- Visits from professionals during lesson time
- Displays around the school and in department areas
We work with a range of post-16 providers
And we work with a host of businesses, industries, and employers
We work to and evaluate our careers’ provision based upon the Career Development Framework and track our careers provision alongside our colleges from GMCA using the Compass Tracker and the Gatsby Benchmarks
Our Careers Advisor is Lucy Gillespie and she is situated in Trinity – if you would like a careers appointment, please contact Lucy.
Here is a list of useful websites that will help in taking the big steps ahead and the transition from KS4 to Post-16 and beyond!
Our local colleges and training providers – these websites are essential for those that are in year 9 or above to complete the necessary research about the kind of post-16 provision you would like to apply for in the future. The websites of the colleges and training providers we work most closely with are posted below:
| Colleges | |
| Training and Apprenticeship Providers |
https://www.wigan-leigh.ac.uk/ |
If you are a professional and wish to help us deliver our amazing careers programme, by doing an assembly or a tutorial as part of a lesson, please get in touch with Assistant Headteacher, Miss Hugill who will be able to make you aware of the opportunities we have so you can be part of it!
Parents/Carers
Please check out the pupil's careers page to learn more about our provision for careers at our school!
We encourage all parents to engage with the latest labour market information (LMI) in our region through the GMACS website
LMI includes information such as job roles and descriptions, average salary ranges and whether demand for job types is expected to grow or decline.
You can learn more about Greater Manchester’s labour market on Bridge GM. The careers website icould.com explains how you can use LMI to help shape career decisions.
How to use LMI to help shape career decisions.
There is a range of career events that take place throughout the academic year from Drop Down Days to Careers’ Evenings and you will be informed of these in advance by our normal communications system.
Our Careers Adviser is Lucy Gillespie and all of our pupils are entitled to 1:1 careers advice during their time with us. This occurs more frequently with pupils in year 10 or 11, but Lucy will have contact with all of our pupils over the course of an academic year, either in tutor, drop-down days, assembly or offering group sessions for career advice and support. If you would like an appointment with Lucy – either for an individual pupil at school or together as a family, she is more than happy to accommodate requests. Please contact her via email.
Get in touch with our Careers Adviser
Here is a list of useful websites that will help in taking the big steps ahead and the transition from KS4 to Post-16 and beyond!
Our local colleges and training providers – these websites are essential for those that are in year 9 or above to complete the necessary research about the kind of post-16 provision you would like to apply for in the future. The websites of the colleges and training providers we work most closely with are posted below:
| Colleges | |
| Training and Apprenticeship Providers |
https://www.wigan-leigh.ac.uk/ |
If you are a professional and wish to help us deliver our amazing careers programme, by doing an assembly or a tutorial as part of a lesson, please get in touch with Assistant Headteacher, Miss Hugill who will be able to make you aware of the opportunities we have so you can be part of it!
Teachers
The Gatsby Benchmarks were developed on behalf of the Gatsby Foundation by Sir John Holman. They define what world-class careers provision in education looks like and provide a clear framework for organising the careers provision.
The 8 Gatsby Benchmarks are:
- A stable careers programme
- Learning from careers and labour market information
- Addressing the needs of each student
- Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Encounters with employers and employees
- Experiences of workplaces
- Encounters with further and higher education
- Personal guidance
Please click this link to remind yourselves of Gatsby Benchmark 4 and 5 and why they are so important in your curriculum area:
Meeting Gatsby benchmark 4 and 5
Please use the following websites to make contacts, develop resources, learn about the post-16 pathways, labour market information and to plan how you can weave CEIAG into your daily teaching:
https://icould.com/teaching-resources
https://www.inspiringthefuture.org/secondary-and-colleges/
https://gmacs.co.uk/education-training/
https://icould.com/stories/using-lmi-careers-decisions
https://icould.com/explore/#careerpaths
There are some great resources linked to subject areas at BBC Bitesize Careers:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/careers
Our local colleges have a wealth of information on their websites about the pathways pupils can follow for your subject area:
| Colleges | |
| Training and Apprenticeship Providers |
https://www.wigan-leigh.ac.uk/ |
Statutory Information
We track and monitor our CEIAG provision internally but also in conjunction with our external colleagues at GMCA using the Compass Tracker. Our CEIAG provision is reported upon three times per year at the Behaviour and Safety Committee and NEETS/Destinations data is reported upon at Behaviour and Safety and The Standards committee meetings.
The most recent destination data can be seen here
| Five Year Trend | |
|---|---|
| School Leavers | Remaining in full time education, employment or training |
| Left in 2017 | 97% (validated by DfE) |
| Left in 2018 | 98% (validated by DfE) |
| Left in 2019 | 96% (validated by DfE) |
| Left in 2020 | 97% (validated by DfE) |
| Left in 2021 (Unvalidated) | 99% based on destination data |
| Left in 2022 (Unvalidated) | 99% based on destination data |
If you wish to contact school regarding the CEIAG provision or you wish to come and speak to our pupils about your career or the post-16 pathways that you provide, please contact Miss Hugill (Assistant Headteacher).
Employers
As an employer, what is your average workforce age? What is your replacement workforce strategy? Have you got succession plans in place? How stable is your workforce over the next 10 years?
Do you have a recruitment strategy?
As a school – we need your help now, more than ever and we can also help you! We would like our local employers and employees to help our students fulfil their aspirations and goals. We want our young people to understand the World of Work and you could help our students develop the required skills needed to meet employer needs and business/industry challenges.
How can you help us?
Think about the skills you would like your workforce to have – perhaps these are skills that are currently lacking and need to be developed in your current and future workforce. Would you like an opportunity to be proactive and influence the future workforce?
Do these skills align with a particular subject? (Maths – accountancy OR Physics – Engineering for example)
Choose a subject area and register a submission of interest by completing the form through the link below.
Once you complete this form – you will be introduced to a subject teacher that teaches in the curriculum area your profession is most closely aligned with
A phone call will take place between you and the teacher to agree a convenient time to visit the lesson
You visit the class and inspire the pupils and help them to understand the World of Work by bringing along your employer ID and/or your DBS certificate.
Alumni
Are you an ex-Golborne High School Pupil who would like to give something back to our popular and successful school?
If so, you could join our Alumni and help to inspire the next generation!
Being a member of the Alumni can be as active as you wish – from coming into school and delivering motivational talks, or perhaps mentoring pupils who may be finding it hard to engage. It is up to you.
Please use this form to become a part of the Alumni and to give your preferences regarding how involved you would like to be with the aims and objectives of our provision.
Alternatively, you can contact our Senior Leader in charge of CEIAG, Miss Hugill at the following email address: