Careers Information Advice & Guidance - Iford Academy
Our vision is to prepare pupils for a safe happy and productive adult life, so careers information, advice and guidance is an important focus for pupils at Iford Academy.
Meet the Careers Information, Advice & Guidance team:
M Bradnam – CIAG support
Michelle.bradnam@ta.weareauthentic.education
F Martin - Careers Lead
fran.martin@ta.weareauthentic.education
The Iford Academy curriculum content highlights real life application of subjects being taught to Careers and life skills. This is particularly evident in the close links to the content of our Personal Development lessons.
Linking careers to learning features across our curriculum subjects along side our careers strategy.
Policies (awaiting upload)
The Gatsby Benchmarks are a key part of the Government’s careers strategy for schools
The Gatsby Benchmarks have a key role in:
- raising young people’s aspirations and promoting access to all career pathways;
- enabling all young people to develop the skills and outlook they need to achieve career wellbeing, including adaptability and resilience;
- underpinning the Department for Education guidance to schools on meeting their statutory responsibility for careers guidance.
Networking
We pride our selves on forging robust and meaningful partnerships within our local community and beyond to ensure that every student has access to a full range of options.
Parents & Carers
As parents and carer’ you have an important role in supporting careers decisions and choices. We produce a fortnightly careers newsletter which is emailed to you and you can access copies here:
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Iford_Careers_Newsletter_Edition_2
You are able to contact the careers team to attend careers meetings or for any advice or help you may need by email.
Careers Advisor and Co-Ordinator : Michelle Bradnam
Michelle.bradnam@ta.weareauthentic.education
Careers Leader: Francesca Martin
Francesca.martin@ta.weareauthentic.education
Useful Careers websites:
Explore careers | National Careers Service
Careerpilot : Plan your future work & study