Careers Overview

We believe that all students in our Academy will experience a high quality education ensuring that all children gain cultural capital necessary for a choice filled life. Raising aspiration is extremely important to us and we aim to develop the understanding that learning, and the experiences that take place within and around learning, can be the route to enhanced opportunities.

At Birches Head Academy, we are committed to providing the highest quality information, advice, guidance and inspiring opportunities to all students in order to ensure students are fully supported and empowered to shape their future lives and careers. When our students leave school they face challenging decisions about their future studies and jobs. Their career will be a set of stepping stones where they gain experience from each job in order to move onto their next one. Our students will receive information, advice and guidance that will help them make short term choices that will lead to long term successes in whatever field they choose to go into. Above all, we want our pupils to experience fullness of life, where the sort of person that they become is of paramount importance.

We aim to deliver a high-quality education that will ensure that all children gain the social capital that enables them to have:

• Unlimited ideas and dreams that can make the world a better place.
• A vision of what they want to achieve in life and how to achieve it.
• A strong sense of duty, responsibility and service.
• Care and compassion towards each other, within the local community and the wider world.
• Choice-filled lives and the desire and motivation to develop as a good person.
• A positive contribution to local communities and wider society and a zest for living life to the full.

As part of our mission to prepare students for life beyond school, we have a very proactive approach to introducing our students to the world of work, training and further education.

Pupils from Year 7-11 follow the Careers Development Framework where they complete a range of activities to encourage them to ‘Grow Throughout Life’ by learning and reflecting on themselves, their backgrounds, and their strengths; ‘Explore Possibilities’ by being aware of the options open to them, learning about recruitment processes and workplace cultures; ‘Manage Careers’ by making the most of opportunities and learning from setbacks; ‘Create Opportunities’ by being proactive and building positive relationships; ‘Balance Life and Work’ with their wellbeing; and ‘Set the Big Picture’ by being aware of how the economy, politics and society connect with their own life and career choices.