Careers
Welcome to the Careers Information Advice and Guidance page at Our Lady Queen of Peace. Further details of our Careers programme is available to all students, parents, carers, employers and teachers. These can be obtained from our Careers Lead.
Our Careers Lead is: Mrs S. Evans
Contact Details: s.evans@olqp.lancs.sch.uk
School Phone: 01695 725635
Vision Statement for Careers:
To provide an inclusive, careers strategy which raises student aspirations, unlocks their potential and ensures that they have the individual skills, values and qualifications to make informed choices and be successful in further education, training and employment
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To meet the requirements of the eight Gatsby Benchmarks
- A stable careers programme
- Learning from career 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
- To raise aspirations
- To raise student aspirations and unlock their potential
- To encourage learners to develop self-belief, self-determination and a commitment to improvement.
- To enables learners to widen their horizons
- To raise achievement
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To raise achievement by strengthening learners’ motivation and ambition.
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To understand entry requirements and relevant opportunities, especially for learners with SEND and those targeted by the Student Premium (FSM/LAC) & help them overcome any potential barriers to success
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To actively promote equality of opportunity and challenge stereotypes
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To develop learners’ cognitive and metacognitive skills to the benefit not just of their career development but of their learning abilities in general.
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- To ensure progression and sustainable destinations
- To give learners the understanding and skills to investigate progression pathways,
- To make effective use of support, make and implement progression decisions wisely and cope with transitions on the way (such as moving to a new school, embarking on an apprenticeship or starting a job.)
- To find out about sound and sustainable opportunities in education, training and employment.
- To publish destination measures to show certain kinds of participation achieved by students at the end of Key Stage 4.
- To engage learners and reduce numbers of students at risk of NEET
- To improve motivation to learn and behaviour and attendance of vulnerable learners.
- To prevent disengagement
- To re-engage those young people in the NEET category who are ‘undecided’.