Careers and Work Experience
At Belvidere School, we aim to equip students with the knowledge, skills and attributes to thrive in learning and work. We recognise the important contribution Careers Education makes to raising aspirations and supporting the successful transition into adulthood and employment, therefore it is increasingly becoming embedded into all aspects of our curriculum and culture of education within the Academy. The Belvidere 5-year Careers, Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) journey ensures that students are inspired and equipped to make informed decisions about their life beyond secondary school, that it is relevant in supporting their longer-term goals.
We provide a varied Careers Education and Support programme, delivered across both Key stage 3 and 4, and work to the Gatsby Benchmarks and CDI Framework to ensure this is meaningful and impactful.
Our programme supports the following:
- The transition to life beyond Belvidere, including Post-16, Post-18 and beyond
- A successful move into further education, apprenticeships or training
- Making ambitious and informed decisions
- Opportunities to encounter further education and the world of work
- The development of employability skills and personal attributes, including resilience, communication skills, leadership, creativity and innovation
- A positive mindset that leads to aspiration and achievement
- Equality of opportunity, the challenging of stereotypes and celebration of diversity
- The availability of guidance to help students reach their potential
Please click on this link to view our Provider Access Statement.
Click on the links below to view our Schools Careers Programme.
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Teachers
The careers team at Belvidere works in partnership with staff across the whole school community. It is expected that all departments embed Careers Related Learning into the curriculum, across all Key Stages. Resources for staff can be accessed on the school network and via the links below.
Gatsby Benchmarks
Curriculum Resources and Guidance
MyPath Videos
Belvidere School will assess the impact of its careers programmes on students in a variety of ways. We use a programme called Compass+, as the tool to help us benchmark, manage, track and report on our school’s careers programme. We will also gain feedback through questionnaires, student voice, Alumni and analysing destinations data. Feedback questionnaires will be conducted, for example, after large whole-school career events and through whole school parent surveys.
Careers Impact
The overarching measure of the impact of our careers programme is the percentage of Belvidere students who leave us at the end of Year 11 and continue into the world of education, employment or training. The vast majority of Belvidere students continue with some form of post-16 education or training, having made well-informed choices and it is consistently above the Shropshire average (see below).
We will extend our research to those leaving Post-18 education to look at the types of Post-18 destinations that our students go into, particularly those accessing apprenticeships and technical/vocational education so that this will inform the future look of our careers programme.
We will use student voice focus groups and parental surveys at various points in a student’s journey through our school to gather further information about which of the careers interventions have the greatest impact, and this will also go towards developing our careers programme.
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
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Shropshire |
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97% |
94.4% |
99.4% |
95.5% |
98.7% |
95% |
Our careers programme is reviewed annually in accordance with any updated statutory guidance and where needed, adaptations will be made to help maintain the standards of the CDI Framework, and the Gatsby Benchmarks.