Careers
What is CEIAG?
Careers Education, Information and Guidance
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The Careers Department is responsible for all aspects of careers education and Guidance within the school. The aim is to provide the pupils with up to date information and expert advice to enable them to make well informed decisions about their education and future career choices.
Heads of Department
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Mrs R Kidd (HOD)
Mrs G Williams (Post 16)
Department Aims
To enable our students to take control of her own Personal Career Planning by providing her with the knowledge and skills needed to make realistic and informed Career choices in the ever changing ‘world of work’ with its new and emerging career opportunities.
To provide adequate opportunities and resources for each student to explore their career interests and the education, training and employment options related to these interests.
To provide a service which is efficient, effective and always has the best interests of the individual pupil as its central focus and will enable them to chart their path through life with confidence and be effective in their future careers.
Key Stage 3
All students in Key Stage Three are actively involved in the Education for Employability Programme which is one of the subjects underpinning the revised curriculum. We aim to bridge the cultural gap that exists between what goes on outside the classroom and what happens in the classroom.
Employability is not just about asking our children what they want to be when they grow up but it does recognise the impressions that children are making about the world of work from a very young age through what they see in the media, what they hear from their families and the roles they often undertake.
Employability seeks to build on children’s already existing awareness of the world around them. It is also about offering our young people an opportunity to see that for them school is their workplace. In this way they gain an insight into the importance
and relevance of the curriculum in literacy, numeracy, ICT and the many skills needed for the modern world of work.
Year 8
All Year 8 pupils have one 45-minute period of Education for Employability every week. The Programme is supplemented by events through Young Enterprise including "Your School Your Business" and visiting speakers.
Year 8 Programme
Introduction to Employability
What's in a Job?
Skills & Qualities
What are employers looking for?
Skills for Work
Career Management
My Personal Career Plan
Careers Research Skills
Changing Work Patterns
Introduction to Career Management
Career Planning
Interviewing a Visiting Speaker
My Personal Goals
Sources of Help
Work In The Local & Global Economy
What's in a Job?
Skills & Qualities
What are employers looking for?
Skills for Work
Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
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What is enterprise?
How enterprising am I?
An enterprising Mind
Year 9
All year 9 students have one 45 minute period of employability every week. The programme is supplemented with the Young Enterprise "YENine" Event, "Taste and See" in Southern Regional College and visiting speakers throughout the year.
Year 9 Programme
Career Management
The New Me
More than one way
Your Own Style
Getting the best from your learning style
Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
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Who wants to be an entrepreneur?
Spot the Entrepreneur
What are the benefits of being an entrepreneur?
Faulty Towers
I had a Dream
Think Big Act Smart
Business Enterprise Plan and Powerpoint Presentation
Work In The Local & Global Economy
The European Union
Occupational Sectors
Jobs in Recycling
How local businesses can contribute to the community
How local businesses can contribute to the global economy
Career Management 2
Sources of Support
Who has the answer?
Who's Who?
Career Pathways
"Taste and See" at Southern Regional College
What employability means to me.
Year 10
All Year 10 pupils have one 45 minute period of Education for Employability every week. The Programme is supplemented by events through Young Enterprise including "Learn to Earn" and visiting speakers. Year 10 is an important year as students will be making decisions on their KS4 Options. Each student receives one to one guidance on their options following an Options Seminar attended by staff, students and parents.
Year 10 Programme
Learning Styles
Learning About Learning
Different Kinds of Learning
How do you Learn?
Multiple Intelligences
Linking your intelligence to your school subjects
Skills & Abilities
Key Skills for Work
Job Families
Preparing for my Guidance Interview
Setting Targets & Action Plan
My Future Dreams
My Work Priorities
LMI (Labour Market Information)
My KS4 Options - Making Decisions
Goals, Choices & Decisions
Managing My Decisions
Managing Risk - choices and consequences
Decisions, Decisions
Subject Pathways
Subject Options
What employability means to me.
Key Stage 4
Extensive work and research with stakeholders, local schools and the Area Learning Community has gone into the preparation of the Year 11 Programme. All students receive one 45 minute period of timetabled CEIAG every week as well having access to a booking system for one to one careers advice through The Careers Advisory Team in school. The Programme is supplemented by visiting speakers, the Young Enterprise "Project Buisness" seminar and our highly successful Work Experience Programme when students enter the work place for one week in June. The Programme is structured around the guidelines in the DELNI Joint Strategy Document "Preparing for Success" and involves raising student awareness of their skills and qualities, values and achievements, helping them to develop up to date career plans, a study of self-employment and much more.
Year 11 Programme
Who Am I?
New Beginnings - My Action Plan for the coming year
Getting Ready to Learn - my learning style
What are employers looking for?
Essential Skills
Past Pupil Destinations - Where did they all go?
My Place
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How is globalisation influencing my career plans?
What are the costs and benefits of globalisation?
Jobs of the Future (S.T.E.M)
21st Century Careers
L.M.I (Labour Market Information)
Try It Out
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Who are the Self Employed in NI?
Whats the point in doing Work Experience?
Getting Ready for the Workplace
Work Logbook
Work Experience Placement & Teacher Visit
Information Is Key
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Why is LMI important to me?
Industry Fact Sheets
Sector Skills Councils
Laying Down Plans
What are my options?
The National Qualifications Framework
NVQ's What are they?
Training for Success
National Diplomas - What are they?
Where can I study these?
School, Work & Lifestyle
Sources of Support
Who has the answer?
Who's Who?
Career Pathways
"Taste and See" at Southern Regional College
What employability means to me.
Influences & Support
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Who is influencing my decisions?
It's Decision Time
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I wish i had known sooner
Now Move On​
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Skills & Qualities Review
Career Plan Update
Post 16 Progression
It's Decision Time
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Post 16 Progression Choice & Justification
Targeted Applications for Post 16 Study
Year 12 Programme
Who Am I?
Team Building Activity
My Skills & Qualities
My Work Values
Career Planning - My Action Plan for this Year
School, Work & Lifestyle
Targeted Applications
Preparing for an interview
My Place
The impact of Globalisation on Career Planning
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Try It Out
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Health & Safety in the Workplace
Equality & Diversity in the Workplace
Self Employment & The Business Plan
Influences & Support
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Who is influencing my decisions?
How can good decisions improve my future?
Information Is Key
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How to find good L.M.I (Labour Market Information)
Laying Down Plans
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Progression Opportunities Post 16
Personal Career Planning
