Curriculum Links: Gatsby Benchmark 4
Careers Education is a team effort. Every student at Wellacre Academy is entitled to high-quality careers guidance to make informed decisions about their future. Effective career guidance is essential for social mobility, particularly for students who may lack significant social capital or home support.
Focus on Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking Curriculum Learning to Careers
Benchmark 4 highlights the importance of connecting classroom learning with real-world careers. At Wellacre, this benchmark ensures that students understand how the knowledge and skills they develop in lessons relate to future employment opportunities, helping them make informed decisions about their pathways.
Why It Matters
- Helps students see the relevance of their learning and motivates engagement.
- Supports informed decision-making about subject choices, further education, and career pathways.
- Encourages cross-curricular collaboration among staff to integrate career insights into lessons.
How Staff Can Support Benchmark 4
Subject Relevance: Identify and highlight links between your subject area and potential careers. For example, explain how mathematics skills are used in finance, engineering, or data analysis.
Guest Speakers & Industry Input: Invite professionals related to your subject area to share insights on how skills are applied in the workplace.
Project-Based Learning: Incorporate real-world scenarios and problem-solving tasks that mirror industry challenges.
Career Information Integration: Use labour market data, case studies, or career profiles to make learning tangible.
Collaboration: Work with the careers team to align curriculum planning with upcoming employer visits, work experiences, or college/university insights.
By actively embedding careers links into curriculum planning, Wellacre staff play a crucial role in ensuring students are prepared for life beyond school.
Labour Market Information (LMI)
The LMI for All is an online data portal, which provides high quality, reliable labour market information (LMI) with the aim of informing careers decisions. Visit the website here.
Amazing Apprenticeships
Amazing Apprenticeships offer a series of webinars for teachers, please register to join here, webinar sessions every week on different career aspects for students. This might be a great opportunity for teachers to learn more about how they can influence and inform their students, linking information to their subject, and would be a real boost for Gatsby 4.
This is Engineering
Engineering can help our students be the difference in the world. From movie makers to robot builders, classroom learners to globetrotters, a range of professionals reveal why they chose engineering & how they followed their passions into a rewarding career. Visit the website here.
Tomorrow's Engineers
If students are interested in science/engineering, this website provides lots of information about a range of careers in engineering. This link will take you to a video gallery, where a host of engineers share their career journeys and the vital work they carry out.
My Personal Finance Skills
My Personal Finance Skills delivers free financial education workshops to schools across the country to help students understand more about money and leave school ‘life-ready’. These workshops are targeted at students across KS4-5 (14-18 years old.)
Greater Manchester Higher
Visit this website to book a wide range of events and activities for learners, as well as to find out more about the GM Higher programme and how they support schools.
