Students

Careers Support for Students at Baskerville

 

At Baskerville, we are here to help you explore your future! Whether you want to work, volunteer, go to college, or learn new skills, we’ll support you every step of the way.

 

This page will help you:

  • 🧭 Understand what careers support is available to you
  • 🏫 Learn about college, work experience, and volunteering
  • 📅 See what careers lessons, trips, and events are happening
  • 💬 Find someone to talk to if you have questions about your future

🎓 What Happens in Careers Lessons?

In school, you will take part in careers lessons to help you:

  • Learn about different jobs
  • Understand what you’re good at
  • Practise work skills
  • Prepare for life after school

 

🏢 Work Experience and Visits

 

You’ll have the chance to:

  • Visit workplaces like shops, cafes, colleges or charities
  • Try out different jobs
  • Learn what it’s like to work as part of a team

🎯 What Are My Pathways?

 

We all learn in different ways, so our careers programme has different pathways:

  • Pathway 1: Learning important life skills, using your senses and trying new things
  • Pathway 2: Becoming more independent and learning how to do things for yourself
  • Pathway 3: Getting ready for college, volunteering or getting a job

📅 What’s Coming Up?

 

We have lots of careers activities throughout the year, including:

  • Work experience weeks
  • Transition events
  • College visits
  • Employer talks and workplace tours

📘 Read Our Booklets

 

You can read more about your next steps in our student and parent booklets:

🌐 Explore Careers Online

 

These websites can help you learn more about jobs and your options for the future:

🗨️ Who Can I Talk To?

 

If you have questions about your future, talk to:

  • Your class teacher or teaching assistant
  • Paul Carbery (Careers Co-ordinator)
  • Francis (Careers Advisor – visits school regularly)

🎯 Skills Builder

 

At Baskerville, we use the Skills Builder Framework to help you build the key skills you’ll need for success in life, learning and work. These skills are used in everything – from making friends to doing a job. You practise them every day, and the more you build them, the more confident and independent you become.

There are eight essential skills we focus on:

  • Listening – Paying attention to others and understanding what they are saying.
  • Speaking – Sharing your ideas clearly and confidently.
  • Problem Solving – Finding ways to fix things when there’s a challenge.
  • Creativity – Coming up with new ideas and trying new ways of doing things.
  • Staying Positive – Keeping going even when things are hard, and believing in yourself.
  • Aiming High – Setting goals and working hard to achieve them.
  • Leadership – Supporting and guiding others to do their best.
  • Teamwork – Working well with others to reach a shared goal.

We help you develop these skills through your lessons, work experience, enterprise days, and everyday school life. You’ll often be asked to think about which skills you’ve used or want to grow next.

Want to see how good your skills are and get tips to improve? Visit:

 

We are here to help you build confidence, explore your options and prepare for a positive future after Baskerville!