Purpose and Aims

The Aspire Academy is fully committed to ensuring that all of our pupils acquire the skills, knowledge and attitudes to manage their learning and career progression.

The Aspire Academy has already established a range of effective careers guidance activities which we hope will guide support our pupils to achieve positive destinations such as A ‘levels, Higher Education, Apprenticeships, Technical routes or Employment.

Our careers strategy sets out The Aspire Academy key approaches internally and externally to enhance the current careers guidance activities and participation opportunities already available to our pupils. The aim is to ensure that pupils are fully prepared for and informed effectively about their next steps and can therefore aspire to achieve their full potential. We want to ensure that our pupils have both the aptitude and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and add value within the workplace.

High quality careers guidance is a crucial part of improving social mobility. Young people make choices based on what they know and what they think is available to them. If our young people are made fully aware of the career pathways and opportunities available to them, they will be more able to make informed choices about which qualifications and career pathways which will enable them to achieve their goals.

The strategy includes measures to further develop and improve the current provision on offer to pupils and will ensure that The Aspire Academy will meet the requirement to meet and maintain the eight “Gatsby Benchmarks”, set out within the Department for Educations’ careers strategy.

This strategy outlines our whole school approach to delivering careers guidance to all of our pupils throughout their journey through education. Careers activity will therefore take place across years 7 through to year 11 as part of the mandatory requirements set by Department for Education and contained within the Gatsby Benchmarks (an overview of this careers learning from year 7 can be found in our Careers Strategy document below)