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Careers Information

Finham Park School is committed to providing its pupils with a varied programme of careers education and guidance activities to equip and enable them to make informed decisions and choices at key transition points and in line with the Government’s Careers Gatsby Benchmarks.

(NB: See Finham’s Strategic Framework: 'Ensure quality CEIAG has high impact on student destinations & retention in education').

It aims to help pupils develop, identify and add to their employability skills throughout their school life. It also contributes to the school’s key values in raising aspirations whilst enabling pupils to acquire social and vocational skills. Importantly it seeks to help pupils understand and be prepared for the ever changing and challenging work and career environment.

Click below for further info on how we provide high quality CEIAG:​​​​

Finham Park School Careers Policy 2023 - 2025
LMI Coventry Warwickshire Parent and Student Guide Autumn 2020
Gatsby Careers Benchmarks at Finham Park SchoolGatsby Benchmarks Evaluation (Dec 2023)Careers Audit Report (Jan 2024)

National Apprenticeship Week

Finham Park hosted former students who came into school to support our assemblies. Tuesday – we welcomed Year 13 2018 leaver Jack Wills who is an IT Apprentice with Coventry Building Society. Jack spoke to an IT class (Year 9 and 10 students) and Mr Bridgeman’s Year 12 computing lesson. Many thanks to Jack and your manager Mr Walton, for allowing you to return and share your experiences as an apprentice. 

Coventry Career programmes

Schools have a statutory duty to provide careers education (1997 Education Act, 2003 Education Regulations) and to give pupils access to careers information and impartial guidance (1997 Education Act, 2008 Education and Skills Bill). Finham Park deliver CEIAG through pastoral support, mentor registration activities, external and the teaching curriculum: PSHE lessons, ASDAN sessions, Work Experience placements, external agencies, (employers, training providers, alumni, volunteering sector) and the Curriculum Enrichment classes.

The programme is designed to help young people make informed decisions about their future careers and to aid the development of the skills necessary to accept and adapt to change.

The school will provide CEIAG, which meets professional standards of practice, and delivered by a qualified Careers Adviser (Mrs Hooke, BA Hons, Level 6 qualified Adviser and a registered member of the Careers Development Institute). The careers programme will be integrated into students’ experience of the whole curriculum and be person-centered, impartial and confidential and based on partnerships with their parents or carers and external providers. Careers education will raise aspirations, challenge stereotyping and promote equality and diversity. Differentiated and personalized, the delivery will ensure progression through activities that are appropriate to students’ stages of career learning, experience and development.

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Provider Access Legislation (PAL)

In January 2023, The DfE published their Careers guidance and access for education and training providers: It includes information for governors and school leaders. The importance of the Gatsby Benchmarks is included, the new Provider Access Legislation, and guidance on making provider encounters meaningful and high quality.

Please click on this link and read pages 3-4 for more information.

Finham Park School's Provider Access Policy Statement

 

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