CAREERS AND ASPIRATIONS
Our careers and aspirations programme supports young people to make positive, informed and aspirational choices about their futures with high-quality, expert careers advice
Careers and Aspirations
Building a bright future for your students
Our team of Level 6 qualified careers advisors:
- Bring deep expertise in the local education environment, employment opportunities and higher education options, equipping students with the knowledge to make informed decisions about their futures.
 - Provide support for students at critical points in their progression through years 8 to 13.
 - Conduct one-to-one interviews, assemblies, group sessions, parents’ evenings, and team days to meet whole- cohort and individual students’ needs.
 
Careers advice for secondary schools
Supporting young people to make positive, informed and aspirational choices about their futures with high-quality, expert careers advice.
Work Experience
Providing students with critical employability skills and relevant career experience through a uniquely tailored, high-quality work experience package.
Aimhigher: Higher Education and Employment
Encouraging and enabling more young people to access higher education and to take up professional work opportunities. This innovative programme inspires young people and helps raise aspirations, by exposing students to senior industry professionals, relatable recent graduates, and university lecturers across a range of careers and industries.
Year 13 employability day
Guiding students through the application process and recruitment process for apprenticeship and employment routes.
Grown Up Me: primary careers programme
Encouraging children to explore and expand their ideas of who they could become. There is increasing evidence that career-related learning in primary schools has many benefits, including broadening horizons, boosting engagement, raising aspirations, challenging stereotypes and improving transition skills in young pupils.
The careers support team

Sonia Mills
Position: Associate Careers Adviser
Guiding every young person towards a future filled with opportunity, confidence, and choice. Read more

Yasmine Hanna
Position: Associate Careers Adviser
Creating pathways of opportunity so every learner can move forward with confidence and purpose. Read more
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