Careers Events
national careers week 2025
National Careers Week (NCW) is a one-week celebration of careers guidance across the UK. The aim is to provide a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people develop awareness and excitement about their future pathways. There are various events taking place in the Academy across the week and a dedicated assembly/ tutor session to careers
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The Parent's Guide To NCW 2025 - National Careers Week
There is a Careers Quiz which is useful for every student as it provides a personalised report identifying careers that may be suitable and highlights your skills which could help with your decision-making and be included in any applications made.
https://bit.ly/careersquizSTWA
Spring Term checklist for parents
For students in year 10, 11, 12 and 13, the spring term is the most intensive of the academic year.
Parents and carers can help by reading the checklist below to see if they can support their child further to help with the choices and work in front of them.
better learners, better workers
This year, students in Year 9 have been taking part in the Better Learners Better Workers Programme again. They have been taking part in a wide range of activities to improve their employability skills. As part of this programme they visited Senior Architectural Systems (SAS) in Denaby Main. Here, they toured the factory and took part in a problem solving task in teams.
The students have also undertaken a project with the NHS to create an advert aiming to encourage young people to engage in more physical activity. They presented their completed project in front of a panel and audience at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre in Sheffield. The students were understandably nervous, but presented themselves incredibly well despite of this.
Stem
To access your STEM guide please click HERE
For the Parents Guide to STEM please click HERE
What can you expect?
Parents’ guide:
This year’s Parents’ Guide will be our second edition, and has a skills specific theme. This guide has been designed to help parents support their children in making informed decisions about their future, and develop the correct skills to help them succeed. Parents will benefit from content on topics including:
- Pathways into work, including T-levels, apprenticeships and university
- The importance of employability skills
- The value of work experience placements
- Student finance and choosing student accommodation
- Careers advice dos and don’ts
- 24-day “skills workout” exercises to complete at home, designed to help young people actively develop eight key employability skills
- PLUS interviews and guest content from organisations including PwC, University of Bath, Sky, Institute of Student Employers, Staffordshire University and many more
STEM guide:
This year’s STEM Guide explores the full range of secondary and A-level STEM subjects, to help young people to understand more about careers in the STEM field. This comprehensive guide has been designed to showcase just how creative, exciting and rewarding a career in STEM can be. Students will benefit from content including:
- 10 detailed subject pages, each detailing career paths these can lead to and the qualifications needed to get there
- Pathways into STEM, covering T-levels, apprenticeships and university
- STEM in its real world applications looking at innovations STEM has helped us create through history and how it can benefit us in the future
- Case studies and interviews from organisations including TFL, Sky, Royal Horticultural Society and many more