Careers

Leigh Stationers’ Academy (LSA) is fully committed to achieving a highly successful Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance programme (CEIAG) across all year groups (Year 7 – Year 13).  LSA aims to support students to make informed choices about their future, enabling them to achieve positive destination pathways and to ultimately be successful in their chosen career field.

Leigh Stationers’ Academy works closely with multiple organisations, agencies, universities, employers and apprenticeship/traineeship providers to coordinate a robust careers programme that offers students up-to-date information alongside direct experience.  We host and attend a variety of key career-related events and have integrated careers education into the tutorial programme and curriculum to ensure students are continually exposed to the wide variety of options available. We also ensure that students receive current, up-to-date information/experiences of work and labour market information.

Careers Education Guidelines

The Gatsby Benchmarks offer eight guidelines that define the best careers provision in secondary schools.  They act as a framework to ensure that schools provide students with the best possible careers education, information, advice and guidance.  All careers education planning at Leigh Stationers’ Academy centres around these recommendations.  The eight Gatsby benchmarks are:

1. A stable careers programme
2. Learning from career and labour market information
3. Addressing the needs of each student
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers
5. Encounters with employers and employees
6. Experiences of the workplace
7. Encounters with further and higher education
8. Personal guidance

Raising of Participation Age

Students must continue with some form of accredited studying or learning while in education, training or employment until they are 18 years old.

Careers Provision at LSA

During their time at Leigh Stationers’ Academy students are entitled to:

• A careers education programme: lessons, workshops, external speakers, work-related learning or taster days.
• Regular feedback on academic progress and how to improve so that goals can be achieved.
• Support to develop better self-awareness to help students recognise their own strengths, areas for development, skills, motivations, and abilities.
• Assistance when accessing and understanding information on open days, jobs, colleges, universities and apprenticeships.

• Information, advice and guidance on future career pathways.
• An understanding of the opportunities that are available and how to access them, so they can make positive decisions for their future.
• Access to comprehensive, user-friendly web-based information to help decision making.
• Support with letters of application, filling in forms etc.
• Help with choices in Years 9, 11 and 13.