Every child should leave school prepared for life in modern Britain. This means ensuring academic rigour supported by excellent teaching, and developing in every young person the values, skills and behaviours they need to get on in life. All children should receive a rich provision of classroom and extra-curricular activities that develop a range of character attributes, such as resilience and grit, which underpin success in education and employment. High quality, independent careers guidance is also crucial in helping pupils emerge from school more fully rounded and ready for the world of work. Young people want and need to be well-informed when making subject and career decisions (DfE March 2015)
At Icknield we provide a wealth of different experiences across a student’s 5 years with us to prepare them for their next stages into further education and employment. We work with various outside agencies to provide this.
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Grofar is an online platform that enables students to build an annual, personal action plan to support their progress towards a successful career post-Icknield. Students build a Student Passport across their 5 years which contains a record of all of the careers education, advice and guidance they have received as well as the events and activities they have attended. It also enables us to tailor our provision in response to their feedback ensuring that we are doing the best for all of our students. See below a flyer on Grofar. |
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Adviza are our independent Information, Advice and Guidance to our students. All students in Years 10 and 11 will have meetings with our Adviza representative David Aldridge. Students will be prioritised according to need and may have many appointments until they feel prepared to make their next steps. |
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We are a BP link school. We work with BP to improve education of Business and STEM Careers. They provide us with current cutting edge resources in Science and Technology. They also help us during our Mock Interview process providing us with many experienced interviewers to help guide our Year 11 students. |
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OXME – The website oxme.info is Oxfordshire County Council's website for young people and includes information about opportunities, activities and services for children and young people in Oxfordshire. |
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The Oxfordshie Labour Market Information Partnership (OxLEP) is a partnership founded to help share enterprises and developments in Oxfordshire with young people, showing them which jobs are in demand now and in the future. |
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The Apprenticeship Guide is a website dedicated to helping young people finding and applying for Apprenticeships throughout the UK. |
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Springpod is an online careers education platform that connects students aged 13-18 with prestigious STEM employers for career exploration, industry interaction, work experience and apprenticeships. |
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Careers Guidance for schools. What is Fast Tomato and why have we chosen to use it? Fast Tomato has been designed to help young people broaden their horizons and consider a broader spectrum of career and education options. Students can take a short psychometric questionnaire which gauges interests, attitudes and motivations. They are then offered career and education suggestions, personalised to them. |
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What is Be Ready and why have we chosen to use it? In addition, BeReady has free curriculum resources that students can access to support their learning and revision. To access follow the link - https://learn.bereadygroup.org/login/index.php site. If staff or students have forgotten their login details then press 'forgotten password', this will send an email straight to your school email inbox or junk mail with a link to create a new password. |
As well as all the information in our Careers Library and on our Careers Noticeboard we publish details of careers events, open evenings, apprenticeship vacancies etc in our school newsletter weekly and on our Instagram page:
Please also see the attached ‘Destinations’ document below for information about where our students go after their time at Icknield.
Students and Parents
For any further information on Careers Education Information and Guidance (CEIAG) please do contact: Vicky Pickford, Assistant Headteacher This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Helen Richardson, Careers Coordinator This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Employers or Educators
If you would like to come into school to speak to students or support our Careers Programme then please look at the attachment below – Employer Engagement Opportunities for more details or contact our Careers Coordinator This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
· Adviza - Adviza are our independent Information, Advice and Guidance to our students. All students in Years 10 and 11 will have meetings with our Adviza representative David Aldridge. Students will be prioritised according to need and may have many appointments until they feel prepared to make their next steps.
 Careers News 13.5.20 | 300 kB |
| Careers News 30.4.20 | 216 kB |
| Employer Engagement Opportunities at ICC | 462 kB |
| Grofar Flyer | 101 kB |
| ICC Careers Curriculum Map | 134 kB |
| Provider Access Policy | 396 kB |
| Year 11 Leavers Destinations 2018-19 | 202 kB |
