Friday 15^th October                                                                  

Year 11 Assembly with TM – Fulford Sixth Form, Course Choice Advice and Taster Days

Monday 18^th – Friday 25^th October                                           

Complete taster day booking forms and return to Angela Weston

Monday 11^th November                                                           

Sixth Form Open Evening

Wednesday 20^th November                                                     

Year 11 Parent’s Evening

Monday 25^th November – Friday 6^th December                         

Mock Examinations

Friday 13^th December                                                              

Sixth Form Taster Day – Internal Students Only
Year 11 Assembly with TJo and TM to explain the options process and dry run
Dry run options issued to students

Monday 6^th January                                                                 

Dry run options forms returned to form tutors

Wednesday 8^th January                                                            

Sixth Form Option blocks created and available

Tuesday 14^th January                                                               

Sixth Form Options forms (including blocks) issued to internal students (and external students visiting on Taster Day 1)

Thursday 16^th January                                                              

Sixth Form Options forms (including blocks) issued to external students visiting on Taster Day 2

Friday 17^th January                                                                   

Year 11 reports home

Monday 20^th – Friday 31^st January                                            

Destinations interviews for Fulford Year 11 students with senior staff and Heads of House

Friday 7^th February                                                                   

Sixth Form options forms retuned by all students (internal and external)

Fulford School Provider Access Policy

Introduction

This policy statement sets out the school’s arrangements for managing the access of providers to pupils at the school for the purpose of giving them information about the provider’s education or training offer. This complies with the school’s legal obligations under Section 42B of the Education Act 1997.

Pupil entitlement

All pupils in years 8-13 are entitled:

•  To find out about technical education qualifications and apprenticeships opportunities, as part of a careers programme which provides information on the full range of education and training options available at each transition point;
• To hear from a range of local providers about the opportunities they offer, including technical education and apprenticeships – through options events, assemblies and group discussions and taster events;
• To understand how to make applications for the full range of academic and technical courses.

Management of provider access requests procedure

A provider wishing to request access should contact:

Sarah Birkby,

Careers Leader,

Telephone: 01904 633300

Email: birkbys@fulford.york.sch.uk

Opportunities for access

A number of events, integrated into the school careers programme, will offer providers an opportunity to come into school to speak to pupils and/or their parents/carers:

Please speak to our Careers Leader to identify the most suitable opportunity for you.

Premises and facilities

The school will make the main hall, classrooms or private meeting rooms available for discussions between the provider and students, as appropriate to the activity. The school will also make available AV and other specialist equipment to support provider presentations. This will all be discussed and agreed in advance of the visit with the Careers Leader or a member of their team.

Providers are welcome to leave a copy of their prospectus or other relevant course literature at the Careers Resource Centre, which is managed by the school librarian. The Resource Centre is available to all students at lunch and break times.

Year 8 Careers Unit 5 weeks

This unit starts off by pupils exploring likes and dislikes regarding careers via a computer programme that then suggests careers based upon their choices. It is intended to foster a spirit of enquiry as pupils begin to actively research different occupations. In another lesson pupils are given imaginary jobs and their compare different jobs in order to raise awareness of the variety of different routes into employment as well as introducing the pupils to a variety of career related terms.

Lessons then move onto looking  at decision making and choosing KS4 options. Pupils also examine equal opportunities in subject choice and career choices as well as good and bad reasons for choosing an option subject. They have a taster lesson in the only subject that has no KS3 access – Business studies. Finally, pupils are encouraged to consider how quickly the world of work is changing.

To further support option choices there is an options evening on Monday21st January 2019  and of course parents evenings prior to option decisions being made.

Year 11 Careers unit 23 weeks (12 lessons)

In the unit pupils will look at the different pathways post 16 including Fulford Sixth Form, Other Schools Sixth Forms, Vocational routes, Employment and apprenticeships. All students will have talks from York College. As well as taught sessions, pupils will be able to follow their interests and undertake more detailed investigations into different pathways. Opportunities are also provided for pupils to investigate specific jobs and careers as well as have particular careers suggested via software packages. There are valuable opportunities for pupils to discover more about themselves: who they are, how they are changing and who they could possibly become. Finally, Year 11 also encompasses practical career skills and tools such as CV writing and interviews.

Sixth Form Careers Information

For information about Careers in the 6th Form, please click here