The Collett School Strategic Development of Pupils' Employment and Work

Lower School

• Learning about people who do different jobs
• Role play
• Learning about time - future and history

Middle School

• Learning about careers and types of employment
• Embarking on self evaluation
• Being taught about jobs and careers
• Travel training
• Time and relevance to the individual and others
• PSD - personal presentation and hygiene
• Transferable communication skills and how we communicate to different people in different roles
• Societal expectations

Upper School

• Visiting a range of organisations to experience where people work to broaden their understanding of types of work and places of work
• Experiencing work
• Making decisions on types of work and careers that interest them
• Reflection on skills and refinement of thinking through CV writing to present themselves effectively
• Creating a portfolio of skills and business enterprise activities to take to interviews
• Researching jobs and careers e.g. college placements, job centre visits, job searches
• Mock interviews with professionals
• Completing CVs
• Money, salaries, banking and expenditure
• Learning about tax, insurances, bills, credit and debit
• Travel training