News
Posted on 9 September 2022
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)
Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG)
At Epsom and Ewell High School we consider it our duty to offer a bespoke careers guidance and support package to our students. Our program aims to cover all the Gatsby benchmarks; a set of guidelines outlined in a 2013 report by the Gatsby Foundation and are recommended in the DfE's Careers Strategy (December 2017) and the Statutory Guidance for Careers, including the Baker Clause (January 2018) and Skill for Jobs (January 2021).
INTENT OF OUR CEIAG PROGRAMME
We recognise that we serve a suburban community in Greater London with a diverse socio-economic make up. As a result, we strive to raise students’ aspirations and promote students’ awareness of a wider range of career pathways, helping them to make well informed, realistic decisions about their future. We intend to achieve the following outcomes:
Raise Aspirations- Gatsby benchmark 1, 2,3,4, and 7
Provide opportunities- Gatsby benchmark 3,5,6 and 8
Upskill students- Gatsby benchmark 2, 6, 7
IMPLEMENTATION OF OUR CEIAG PROGRAMME
We have put in place a comprehensive and robust programme of support, delivered through the curriculum in years 7-13. In order to deliver our programme using resources from Core Skills, the Careers Development Institute (CDI) Framework and Unifrog during dedicated ½ hour sessions every week. Students also have a half- termly careers focused week and assembly where they hear from people in industry and alumni students. Additionally, we benefit from the support of Innervate career services, who provide one-to-one personalised guidance to those who need it most, in years 10-13. This has expanded students’ access to a range of opportunities including advice tailored to the individual needs and circumstances of the students.
EEHS CEIAG LEARNING JOURNEY
ACTIONS TAKEN SINCE LAST CAREERS REVIEW
To improve the quality of provision for careers we have:
- Invited alumni to return to EEHS to speak about their experiences since leaving school.
- Increased allocated hours of funding for an external and impartial careers service to work with students in a more focussed way.
- Created a working party link with Epsom College to give students in year 10,11,12 and 13 access to further career talks and fairs.
- A member of the Surrey Careers Hub and part of their Industry Champions programme.
Management of provider access requests
Procedure
Mrs Nicola Heaney is our Designated Careers Leader and IAG Manager. If you would like to contact Mrs Heaney, please email her at Heaneyn@eehs.surrey.sch.uk
Employers - please download our provider access details, within our Careers Policy.
