Careers
Kingswood School’s Career Guidance Programme is designed to support the School’s philosophy of 'establishing the development of character, talent, responsibility and independence as the important foundation for adult life.'
The programme encourages students to become self-aware, using their understanding of their own strengths and interests to help them to make informed choices which affect them during their school life. Ultimately, the programme aims to equip students with the tools they will need to help them to make their own choices after their school career and subsequently during their adult working life.
The programme enables every student to think carefully about their future career by helping them to understand and experience the working world and to learn key employability skills.
Kingswood’s Career Guidance Programme includes access to:
- Online career information resources
- Career planning lessons
- Skills workshops
- One-to-one career guidance meetings
- Career seminars and networking events
- Sixth Form work experience week.
Each year, students take part in a number of tailored activities which are designed to provide a smooth transition from one year to the next, and address the academic choices which they are required to make at key moments during their school career: GCSE, A-Level and all post-18 options, including apprenticeships and higher education.
Alongside the Head of Careers, Debbie Longland, the delivery of the programme is supported by teachers, parents and Kingswood alumni, as well as carefully selected career education agencies.
To view the Career Journey's for our year groups throughout their time at school, please click to view the below illustrations:
KWS Career Journey Y6-11 KWS Career Journey Y8-13
In the drop down menus below you will find some information on what goes on in class each year related to careers:
- Timetabled Life Skills Careers themed lessons
- Personal Guidance by request
- Invites to Career Insight: Meet a… talks
- Invite to be a Careers Ambassador
- Challenge Day
- Tutor time activities
- Timetabled Life Skills Careers themed Lessons
- Personal Guidance by request
- Invites to Career Insight: Meet a… talks
- Invite to be a Careers Ambassador
- Tutor time activities
- Timetabled Life Skills Careers themed Lessons
- Personal Guidance by request
- Invites to Career Insight: Meet a… talks
- Invite to be a Careers Ambassador
- Tutor time activities
- GCSE Options Information Evening
- Timetabled Life Skills Careers themed Lessons
- Intro to Unifrog
- Careers Workshop – half day in summer term
- Personal Guidance by request
- Invites to Career Insight: Meet a… talks
- Invite to be a Careers Ambassador
- Tutor Time activities
- Timetabled Life Skills Careers themed Lessons
- Continued use of Unifrog
- Scheduled Personal Guidance Interview
- Follow up report reviewed by tutor
- Weekly Careers Drop-in sessions
- Invites to Career Insight: Meet a… talks
- Invite to be a Careers Ambassador
- Into the Sixth information evening
- Timetabled Life Skills Careers themed Lessons
- Continued use of Unifrog
- General Studies – alumni / employers / parents
- Personal Guidance meetings on request
- Weekly Careers Drop-in sessions
- Invites to Career Insight: Meet a… talks
- Invite to be a Careers prefect
- Networking events
- Support for Medics, Vets, Oxbridge
- Work Experience
- HE information evening and HE Day
- UCAS fair
- Possible: National Apprenticeship Show Trip
To read more about our Careers programme in the Sixth Form, please visit our dedicated web page below.
- Timetabled Life Skills Careers themed Lessons
- Continued use of Unifrog
- Support from form tutors
- Personal Guidance meetings on request
- Weekly Careers Drop-in sessions
- Invites to Career Insight: Meet a… talks
- Support for Medics, Vets, Oxbridge
- Post-18 options workshops
To read more about our Careers programme in the Sixth Form, please visit our dedicated web page below.