Careers Planning

Careers Planning and Information

Helping your child to plan for their future post can be a daunting task. We have listed websites below which we feel will be helpful during this process.

Post Venture your child can:

• Study full-time at sixth form or college or with a training provider (further education)
• Start an apprenticeship or trainee-ship
• Get a job with training
• Work or volunteer full-time with part-time study or training

Don’t forget whatever choice they make they have to stay in education or training until they are 18.

At Venture, we are dedicated to preparing students for a bright and successful future, no matter what their aspirations may be. Part of this commitment involves guiding students through their options after their time at Venture, including pathways into Further and Higher Education. There are many excellent Further Education providers both locally and in wider areas, including Norfolk and Suffolk, that offer diverse opportunities for our students.

We actively promote apprenticeships, allowing students to gain employment, earn a salary, and receive training simultaneously. Additionally, we highlight scholarship opportunities for those interested in attending sixth forms and colleges in Norfolk and Suffolk, offering financial support for Further Education at select institutions.

Apprenticeships Norfolk: Please click here to view the website

Your local Further Education (FE) providers are: 

East Norfolk Sixth Form

East Coast College (Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft)

Lowestoft Sixth Form College

NCFC Community Sports Foundation Football Learning Programme Opportunity for Year 11/12s to continue their education at Norwich City Football Club. The Football Learning programme offers students aged 16-18 the chance to swap a traditional classroom for a learning environment immersed within a professional football club.
The programme enables students to combine their passion for football and Norwich City Football Club alongside an excellent academic provision. To find out more  please click here

If you are a Post 16 provider please see our Provider Access Policy here

Careers Programme Information

Careers Leader contact: Mr Ian McInally

 or email on: [email protected]

Telephone: 01493 662966

Summary:

Careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) is an essential part of the support we offer to students at Ormiston Venture Academy. The education, information, advice and guidance we offer begins in Year 7 and runs right throughout a student’s time at the Academy.

The aims of the Ormiston Venture Academy careers programme are:

• To provide up to date and impartial guidance to all students.
• To encourage students to be ambitious, broaden their horizons and explore their own career aspirations throughout their life at the Academy.
• To ensure students’ readiness to take their next step in their learning or career.
• To help students to understand the changing world of work
• To facilitate meaningful encounters with employers for all students
• To support positive transitions post-16 to reduce the chances of students becoming NEET.
• To enable students to develop the research skills to find out about opportunities
• To help students to develop key employability skills, attitudes and qualities to make a successful transition into the world of work
• To encourage participation in continued learning, including further and higher education and
• apprenticeships
• To support inclusion, challenge stereotyping and promote equality of opportunity
• To contribute to strategies for raising achievement, particularly by increasing motivation.

Our careers programme below is available for all stakeholder to see, and is introduced to students early in Year 7. Staff are able to access the careers policy via the Academy’s handbook and often take a lead in specific sessions.

Parents have the opportunity to learn more about the programme during Academic Review Days, our annual careers fair and at parents’ evenings. Employers can view the Provider Access Policy

Statement which outlines entitlements and opportunities for access, with contact details above.

Careers Timeline

Careers Timeline

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9	Year 10	Year 11
				Further Education presentations
Bring Uni to you – UEA	Into Uni – Higher Education Workshops	Uni Research Programme Launch	Uni Research Programme Launch	Further Education Visits
	Bringing Uni to you- UEA	Into Uni – Higher Education Workshops	Into Uni – Higher Education Workshops	Launch Scholarship and Apprenticeships opportunities
Venture into…Sessions. careers talks and industry visits – all year round	Venture into…Sessions. careers talks and industry visits – all year round	Venture into…Sessions. careers talks and industry visits – all year round	Venture into…Sessions. careers talks and industry visits – all year round	FE applications on Helpyouchoose
	Cambridge University day (HPA)	Careers and Futures interviews	STEM Conference	Launch NCS opportunity
	Options assembly	Mock interview practice	University options workshops	Oxbridge seminar
	Careers and Futures interviews	Universities options workshops	Apprenticeships fair at EEC	FE Interviews
Careers booklets as element of CASH Curriculum	Careers booklets as element of CASH Curriculum	University budgeting bonanza workshop
Enterprise Challenge guild	Enterprise Challenge guild	Enterprise Challenge guild	Inspired events – Finance Hospitality, Technology, Medicine, Care	Inspired events – Finance Hospitality, Technology, Medicine, Care
Uni for boys event – UEA	CV and Interviews workshops	UEA mentoring and workshops	Careers and Futures interviews
Careers and Futures interviews	STEM Focus Guild		Work Experience

When monitoring the success of the careers programme, the Academy considers formal and informal measures, qualitative and quantitative outcomes for students.

The careers programme is evaluated in a number of ways, including:

• Student feedback on their experience of the careers programme
• Staff feedback on careers sessions, mock interviews and different workshops
• Gathering informal feedback from external partners and from parents
• Quality assurance of careers sessions as part of the PL time programme and student destination figures post-16.

The Academy measures and assesses the impact of the careers programme by monitoring destination data and collecting feedback from key stakeholders.

The Academy works alongside local Further Education and apprenticeship providers to ensure students progress onto relevant pathways post-16 which allows them to achieve their potential.

The date of the next review is Summer Term 2025

Careers policy

8 Gatsby Benchmark

Destinations data

Year	% in sustained education or training ( after 6 months)	% in sustained education, training or employment ( after 6 months)
2017	90	95
2018	No published data	No published data
2019	91	94
2020	95	98
2021	83	89