Employment
We aim to provide our young people with clear, evidence based employment pathways with opportunities for volunteering.
We give our pupils the guidance and knowledge around post 16 careers and employment to help them with their decision making.
Heywood Academy aims to follow the eight Gatsby benchmarks.
1. A stable careers programme
2. Learning from careers and labour market information
3. Addressing the needs of each student
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers
5. Encounters with employers and employees
6. Experiences of workplaces
7. Encounters with further and higher education
8. Personal guidance
Employability – KS3
The curriculum is delivered through RSE and the EHCP intervention lessons, the topics are:
Year 7 – Financial decision making (saving, borrowing, budgeting & making choices, careers, teamwork & enterprise skills, raising aspirations)
Year 8 – Digital Literacy (Online Safety, Digital literacy, media reliability, gambling hooks)
Year 9 – Setting Goals (Learning Strengths, career options and goal setting as a part of the GCSE options process)
Career Sector Information
Green Economy SectorFinancial Technology Sector
Accounting, Finance and Law Sector
