Teacher Area

Joseph Leckie Academy is committed to providing high quality Careers, Education, Information, Advice and Guidance to help inspire students and to enable them to make rational informed career decisions. Joseph Leckie Academy aims to meet all eight Benchmarks identified by the Gatsby Foundation.

Mr Edge our Careers Leader believes that the provision and delivery of careers education as not being the responsibility of a Careers Leader and a small number of teachers in the Academy, but of all staff at Joseph Leckie Academy

At Joseph Leckie Academy we would like all subject areas to do the following:

have a prominent display that links subject learning and skill development to different careers
develop links with businesses and organisations
to invite alumni and other external speakers to come into school (virtually where an actual visit is not feasible)
where appropriate to organise external visits by students to local businesses/organisations
record careers learning opportunities for students in schemes of learning - and encourage students to update their activities on Unifrog
take part in National Careers Week where all teachers start their lesson with a careers focus, such as talking about their career pathway or showing a short film where people in a range of job roles explain the relevance of skills developed in a particular subject area to their role.
explore the possibility of developing real projects/challenges for students with a local business or organisation e.g. a local company setting IT students the task of designing/updating their website
consider the needs and interests of all students and ensure that information challenges stereotyping including gender and disability

Subject teachers will be supported to develop and integrate careers learning opportunities into their schemes of learning through INSET sessions and / or informal discussion with our Careers Team. This will include the opportunity at least once a year, to meet representatives of local businesses and organisations on the Academy site.

There are a range of resources on the market that suggest ways of incorporating careers learning into different subject areas. The Careers Education and Guidance area on SharePoint has lots of useful resources which can be used, and will be updated by the Careers Team regularly.

Useful websites: