Learning, Teaching and Assessment - Career Education Standard

The Career Education Standard is an important part of our Developing the Young Workforce strategy and recognises how and when young people learn about the World of Work.

There are a number of ways that departments can confidently promote and contribute towards the Career Education Standard:

Link classroom learning to the world of work and employment opportunities
Explicitly discuss skills development whenever appropriate
Engage with local labour market data and link to your subject area (slide 11)
Use My World of Work lesson inserts in your teaching
Develop employer links to enhance learning, including work experience opportunities

DYW Co-ordinators are Natalie Campbell, Esther Harrington and Rhona McKernan. All 3 are happy to work with teachers and departments on any aspect of the above.

Natalie: Bus Tech, Science and Creative

Rhona: Modern Languages, PE and Social

Esther: Maths, English and ASN

The two main aims of the CES are to improve employability skills and enable all young people to achieve a sustained and best positive destination. We track destinations 3 times in the 12 months after a young person leaves school - once in October and again in March and May. Post school, we work with a team at SDS to support school leavers until their 25th birthday.

School leaver information

A team of school staff and SDS staff meet regularly to discuss and support school leavers. Potential leavers, and all of S6, are assigned a risk number from 0-3 (0 is at high risk of a negative destination and 3 means has already secured a positive destination - job offer or unconditional). You can view the current data here.

If you have any additional information following a conversation with a school leaver, please contact their Pupil Support Teacher, Alan, Natalie, Esther or Rhona so that the leaver destination information can be updated. By working together, we can support all of our young people in to a positive, sustained destination. Rhona is going to focus her support on our Q1 leavers, Esther on our leavers with experience of care, and Natalie will pick up the rest.

Links with Employers

There are many ways to engage with employers, including

SDS Marketplace - bookable opportunities to engage with willing employers
Founders 4 Schools (F4S) - local business people who are happy to speak with classes
DYW Forth Valley - local DYW team who work with us to develop and maintain links with local employers