CAREERS Appointments for Year 11 start again this week with our dedicated careers counsellor Nic Dean who is helping students think about next steps and prepare an action plan. We are identifying those who want initial support. If you feel your son or daughter is in need immediate support please contact me and we can arrange an urgent appointment Mary Tebble – mtebble@parkhouseschool.org.

Well done to all our 6th Form Students who enjoyed a Training session with Rebecca from Unifrog to help them complete personality quizzes and research to support their career journey. Also key focus for Year 13 is using Unifrog to research and prepare Personal Statements and start to confirm your courses and destinations for next year. Please sign up to Open Days that are now running at all key Universities. We will be visiting some over the next few months so watch this space.

We will be issuing Unifrog logins for all students next terms so all year groups can start to investigate and complete the activities to think about their career path.

Destinations Expo 2024 Interactive Careers Fair

On 10th October the 6th form attended Careers Fair at Newbury College for exciting opportunity to visit a range of businesses offering apprenticeships and jobs and local universities such at Oxford Brookes. Students were able to interactive and talk to exhibitors and gain an understanding of the opportunities they may not have considered. A bonus was a bit of exercise as we walked down and it didn’t rain!

STEM Day

Year 8 had an exciting day off time table investigating civil engineering careers and working on the creation of a new “Cardboard City”. Thank you we were inundated with recycled card and our amazing year 8 young designers of the future put them to great use. Working within groups in their tutor, supported by Education Business Partnership and Business visitors to solve problems, allocate roles and think about planning and scale of their projects. The whole day was sponsored by James Ballantyne Memorial Fund a real thank you for their support for the future engineers.