Careers Advice


 

Careers at Ryde School

Mr J MacArthur (Head of Careers)

Mr S Baxter (Head of Sixth Form)

 

It is the role of the Careers Department to co-ordinate the appropriate guidance to pupils across the School from Year 9 to the Upper Sixth. Our key is to focus on a number of well defined steps, to ensure that all pupils and parents are fully aware of the decisions which need to be made – and to give regular access for individual advice and encouragement to help with these decisions.

  • In Year 9 we are involved in looking ahead with the pupils to the choices which have to be made regarding their GCSE courses. At Ryde School, the subject range is designed to keep open a very wide variety of possible subsequent career decisions at this stage.

     
  • In the late Summer Term of Year 10 pupils will take the Independent Schools Career Organisations Futurewise Profile: this produces a thorough and objective report on each individual pupil’s ability and aptitudes, with a range of “career suggestions', which we send to parents.

  • Early in Autumn Term of Year 11, each pupil will have an interview, with professionally qualified ISCO staff to explain and expand upon their individual Profile’s results to help them produce an Action Plan for their Sixth Form GCE choices and their education or training beyond Ryde. These options are the focus of the Sixth Form Open Evening and a subsequent Parents’ Evening in Year 11.

     
  • Early in the Lower Sixth, with GCSE’s behind them and the new challenges of the AS / A Level courses, we focus on the routes to Further and Higher Education. We use the Centigrade University Course Selection Questionnaires and individual interviews to evolve the most appropriate applications, including opportunities for a Gap Year.  This process continues into the Upper Sixth, with much stress on one-to-one individual advice and encouragement, the UCAS Fair in Portsmouth, Open Days, “mock entrance interviews' when appropriate and support up to and after the A Level Results day in mid-August.

Ryde School’s membership of the Independent Schools Careers Organisation does provide extensive services for pupils and parents alike, via www.isco.org.uk and www.careerscope.info. Mr MacArthur can advise on how best these may be used.


The core link for University or College entrance is www.ucas.com .

An extensive site which helps to answer the question “.. if I study 'x' what can I do …'x' is at  www.prospects.ac.uk

Other up-to-date information can be found at http://education.guardian.co.uk  and  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/


 

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