Careers

Harry Watts Careers Team

Martin Thompson - Harry Watts Academy Careers KS4 and Transitions Lead 

Martin will oversee the careers curriculum implementation for the whole school. As Key Stage 4 lead he will also focus on pupil's transitions to college or future providers and will liaise with the local authority and future providers for transition planning and visits.

 

Karen Churchill - Careers Lead for Discover

Karen will support teachers on the Discover pathway with lesson planning to ensure pupils learn about a wide range of career opportunities. She will also develop links with different organizations to organize visits or visitors for pupils to gain meaningful work experience opportunities. 

 

Lauren Chu - Careers Lead for Explore 

Lauren will support teachers on the Explore pathway with lesson planning to ensure pupils learn about a wide range of career opportunities. She will also develop links with different organizations to organize visits or visitors for pupils to gain meaningful work experience opportunities. 

 

Jodie Bainbridge - Careers Lead for Engage

Jodie will support teachers on the Engage pathway with lesson planning to ensure pupils learn about careers within their 'Understanding the World' curriculum area. She will also develop links for visits and visitors to plan opportunities for pupils to meet people that will help them in the community in the future.

 

Stefanie Wilson - Careers lead for Prosper Learning Trust

 

Stef will be working with the careers team to develop links with organizations and future providers. Stef will also work alongside Martin and Gill to develop personalized plans and facilitate personalized work experience opportunities for our year 10 and year 11 pupils. 

 

Gill Matriarch - Sunderland Careers team - Together for Children 

Gill will work with the school and will contact and meet the parents of our year 11 pupils to develop personalized plans for pupils as they transition to college or other services after Harry Watts. Gill will also attend our annual careers parent meeting.

 

Danielle Wilson- Career Adviser, Registered Career Development Professional- CareerWave

Engage:

In the Engage Pathway careers related learning is approached through the exploration of people that we might come across in our day to day life and what their roles are. Stories and role play are often a stimulus and give a context to these jobs and roles.

 

Explore:

In the Explore Pathway careers related learning is set in the context of the half termly topic. The main breadth of careers will be taught with references to key life skills. 

This is to help pupils on this pathway, to begin to develop skills across key areas to help develop their skills within preparation for adulthood and awareness of the world around us. A curriculum is in place which includes suggested activities aimed to develop skills for key career lessons.

The suggested educational visits and experiences, are planned so pupils can use and apply their knowledge and understanding from the activities and adapt these skills to the wider world.

This will support our pupils to understand how the skills and knowledge they gain in school will be relevant throughout their life.

 

Discover:

In the Discover Pathway Careers related learning enables students to understand what skills they need to be successful.

They learn the skills of listening, speaking, problem solving, creativity, staying positive, aiming high, leadership and teamwork.

They learn to make decisions and have a good picture of the world of work and what they can do to realise their dreams.

For more information about Careers, see our Careers and Transition pages.

Careers