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Transitions into Adulthood & Careers

 

 

Transitions Coordinator: Mrs Jacqui Roper

jacqui.roper@collett.herts.sch.uk    01582 626727

At the Collett School, we are committed to providing a planned and extensive careers programme.  This is taught within the PSD curriculum and is differentiated to suit the needs of the individual learner. It has been designed to inform and equip every student with the skills and knowledge to support their transition onto further education, training or employment. 

The aim of our careers programme is to raise the aspirations of our learners and to support them in developing transferable life and social skills. We carefully consider all possible options with each individual young person with their strengths and future aspirations in mind.

We consider transition from early on so we can build confidence and social skills through working on areas of need identified in the Hertfordshire Skills Framework such as motivation, respect, resilience, organisation and teamwork. We do this by offering a programme of extended work experience, supported as necessary and monitor the impact of this.

On a practical level, we work closely with YC Hertfordshire who offer a service to provide impartial advice through professional meetings arranged during the school day by careers advisers. At these meetings, we ensure we ‘tap into’ students’ interest, strengths and aspirations to find the right work experience placement, college course and environment for success. We then produce a document offering valuable opportunities and guidance to support their next steps. 

At The Collett School, we are fortunate to have been working with Beverly Greenfield and Nicole Chater from YC Herts for a number of years. 

We have strong links with local colleges, and work closely with the college transition workers, inviting them into school  to meet our students, observe them in lessons and run Q & A workshops regarding college. We also arrange college taster days early in the Autumn term offering our students as much time as possible to prepare for the change. Further transition days also take place during the summer term.

All transition support workers attend year 11 EHCP (Educational and Health Care Plan) meetings giving parents and carers opportunities to ask any college related questions or share concerns. Again parents are supported and involved in the process is as much as possible, so they can, in turn, support the transition and management of significant change.  

Once our students join their new setting we offer to support them closely in the initial first few weeks (if they feel they would benefit from this) to ensure a seamless move.

We keep destination data - please contact us if you require this.

Colleges our students can transition to:

Useful Links and Resources

Providers come into our school to talk to students about the opportunities available to them. We are currently working with Dominic Johnson from Oakland’s College and Alison Hales from West Herts College, both happy to answer emails from the links below

Useful Links and Resources

 

The Collett's 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

Statutory guidance