Schools have a statutory duty to provide careers education in Years 7-13. We must give pupils access to beneficial information, impartial advice, and meaningful guidance. Our strong belief is that outstanding careers guidance provision is the key to unlocking social mobility. Here at Notre Dame, we focus on equipping young adults with the skills required in a fast-changing labour market, exploring all the options available to them, and providing support to allow them to make the right choices to enable them to engage in their chosen future careers.

Our Careers programme offers many opportunities throughout the school year for all students.

Throughout the careers programme at Notre Dame, we facilitate encounters with employers in and out of school, track the successes of our alumni and allow them to share their first-hand experience, and we present opportunities to engage with further and higher education providers. This empowers our pupils with the knowledge and understanding required to take ownership of their pathways and make informed decisions. All staff contribute to careers education and guidance through their roles as tutors and subject teachers. Alongside this provision, our experienced Careers Advisor offers focused and tailored careers advice.

The programme we offer focuses on developing our pupils’ skills in three core areas:

• Self-development: our pupils can only be successful if they understand the development of their own character, skills and abilities.
• Career exploration: our pupils can only aspire to careers they know about - our challenge is to make that knowledge as wide-ranging as possible.
• Career management: our pupils need the basic skills necessary to take their first post-16 steps with confidence, secure in the knowledge that they have made the correct choices at this time and have the resilience to cope with what lies ahead.

For further information on our Careers Programme for 2023/2024 please see the link at the bottom of this page.

Assessment

Our Careers programme is reviewed annually and amended to meet the needs of our pupils, and we monitor our careers provision throughout the year. We use the Compass tool to measure the impact of the careers programme as part of this review. The next review will take place in July 2024. After our CEIAG events and PSHE lessons, we assess whether our students have achieved the aims and objectives of the event and the standard of provision.

Feedback on our CEIAG provision is welcomed from parents, students, staff and employers: please forward comments to careers@ndhs.org.uk

Further Information

Each year group have their own page which includes careers advice that is specific to them.  To view your year group's page click on the Student menu at the top of our website or click here.

Our Careers blog, has been added to all 'students' year group home pages on the website. This allows us to share information as it arises. The Careers blog is also attached to the regular NDHS newsletter to parents and carers.

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Further information about Gatsby Benchmarks and Good Careers Guidance can be found here

The following information relates to students leaving Notre Dame High School at the end of the academic year 2024.

2024 Data

2023 Data

2022 Data

PDF copies can be found at the bottom of this page. 

Labour Market Information (LMI) is a useful tool to help research future jobs in the local area, understand the skills needed for certain roles and the demand for future employment. It is important our students leave here with a good understanding of this.

• What skills and qualifications you need for specific jobs?

• How much money you can earn in a particular job?

• Which job sectors are growing?

• Which jobs meet more people.

• What Jobs are in short demand.

• What jobs have a higher percentage of men or women?

• Routes taken to qualify for certain careers. 

Here is a short video explaining what Labour Market Information is, starting to plan your career journey and where to find out information.Click Here  

The LMI for All portal provides high quality, reliable labour market information (LMI) to inform career decisions. Click Here

 

Careerometer: A tool to compare jobs

Use the Careerometer to compare different jobs — salary, working hours, etc.Click Here