Careers and Google Classroom

It is important that from Key Stage 3 onwards students have access to materials which will help them to understand the opportunities and choices that are available to them post 16 and 18 whether they be further education or employment options.

Knowing what you want to be at any age can pose difficult decisions, but by accessing materials such as job profiles, qualification options and subject uses this can help to make that process clearer.

Students from all year groups at Westlands have access to the Careers Google Classroom. This academic year, through this medium, we have begun to publish careers information in a number of different ways:

Awareness Weeks/ Days and National Events

Where relevant, job profiles are linked to various national or world awareness days and events. In February, we will publish a different engineering job profile each day for National Engineering Week, in March we published a different science related job profile each day for British Science Week. Relevant profiles were also sent out for World Book day and World Maths Day and there’s lots more scheduled for the remainder of the academic year including Public Services Day and World Space Week.

Careers By Subject & Where Subjects Can Lead

Students will be able to access careers by subject and for information about where each subject can take them which will link to Subject Careers Weeks. 

National Careers Week

During National Careers Week, we will be posting links to various workshops and activities that are being held to help celebrate the world of careers. Your student will be able to pick and choose what activities they can take part in as extra-curricular activities. 

National Apprenticeship Week

During National Careers Week, we will be posting links to various workshops and activities that are being held to help celebrate the world of careers. Your student will be able to pick and choose what activities they can take part in as extracurricular activities. 

There’s lots going on and much more planned, Google Classroom provides the perfect opportunity to get as much career information out to students as possible. It is a medium which we have only begun to use this academic year, but as each piece of information gets published to students it is filed by topic and is beginning to build an ongoing library of information that students can access at any time. 

Please encourage your young person to regularly access the Careers Google Classroom to explore the information available.