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At The Dean Academy, every pupil should leave confident, articulate and culturally aware being able to pursue careers they are passionate about, contribute positively to society and live happy healthy and fulfilled lives. To achieve our mission, pupils must be exposed and appreciate the opportunities that a school and university education will afford them in terms of careers and quality of life. Therefore, we need to ensure that all pupils are aware of the post-16 pathways available to them. Students will receive personalised advice and support, and to coincide we will provide experiences of college, work and university that will allow them to make informed choices about their future.
In addition, pupils are explicitly taught the character traits, habits and routines that will enable them to become successful at home, and in the workplace as well as develop a refined sense of self, both as an individual and as part of a community through trips, visits, talks and enrichment. We are committed to implementing the Gatsby benchmarks to structure our programme and measure our success.
What to Expect
What to Expect Careers 2025-2026
Compass+ Evaluation
Compass+_CompassEvaluation_Results_Report_28112025This section of The Dean academy’s website is aimed at helping parents and carers source information to help support young people in their future decisions. Below you will find three helpful sections: Morrisby our career’s and aspirations platform, information about education options, types of jobs and local opportunities.
Morrisby
We use a platform called Morrisby to help support each student’s career learning from Year 7 through to 11. Please see the introductory document below:
Morrisby Careers – Information for Parents
Education Options
There are a variety of educational routes available to students when they leave The Dean Academy:
www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship
www.nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk
UCAS – Search for courses, uni & colleges and information
Types of jobs
Students who already have an idea of their future of where they want to be may find it easier to plan their next steps more easily. To help students with this we use Morrisby but would also suggest looking using these websites to help aid your child in their search:
Local opportunities
With developments in the ever-growing working world, it is important to keep up to date with what is happening locally, nationally and internationally. These developments will have a significant impact on your students’ choices in their future.
Please check out the latest Labour Market Information (LMI) on the LMI tab above to help aid your child’s choices.
Morrisby
Morrisby Careers - Information for StudentsGloucestershire Post-16 Pathways
P16 Visual Pathway - Interactive VersionY11 Next Steps
Year 11 Next Steps PresentationPost 16 Choices – An Aspirations and Careers Timeline of Year 11
Post 16 Providers where to go after TDA
Gloucestershire College Presentation March 2023
Click here to read the Gloucester College Apprenticeship Prospectus.
Please find below our quizzes on our diploma subject areas. |
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Click here to read the Motivational Preparation College for Training (
All our teachers should link curriculum learning with careers. STEM subject teachers should highlight the relevance of STEM subjects for a wide range of future career paths.
Our Aim is to:
- Have a prominent displays that links subject learning to different careers
- Invite external speakers to come into school
- Link curriculum to the workplace through class collaborative discussions and workshops
- Organise external visits by students to local businesses/organisations.
- Explore the possibility of developing real projects/challenges for students with a local business or organisation e.g. International women’s day panels and Dragon’s den competitions.
- Consider the needs and interests of all students and ensure that information challenges stereotyping including gender and disability
If you are a teacher or member of staff at the Dean Academy and would like help, guidance or advise in delivering the most effective an aspirational careers education you can, please do not hesitate to contact: careers@thedeanacademy.org or speak with Keavy Musto – Careers Lead. Below are also some useful websites that may help aid your search:
Careers Advice & Guidance Online Platform – Morrisby
Useful Websites
Career Pilot – Expert careers information and tools for 11-19 year olds, all in one place
Prospects – What job would suit me?
CareersBox – Careers Films on the Web
icould – Career ideas and information for your future
UCAS – Search for courses, uni & colleges and information
UCAS – Search for apprenticeships, graduate jobs and internships
The Times Good University Guide 2023
Studential – Provides in-depth information about choosing and going to university
The Complete University Guide – Information about studying at university in the UK and abroad
Do It – Find the perfect volunteering opportunity for you
Vinspired – Find volunteering roles
Apprenticeships
www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship
National apprenticeship service, provides listings for vacancies and useful search tool by area and level of apprenticeship
www.nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk
National Careers Service gives information, advice and guidance for learning, training and work.
Work experience opportunities in Gloucestershire hospitals
Career Tests
Take the Buzz Personality Quiz to find out more about your personality and skills
Good for job market information and for those considering Higher Education.
https://www.grows.ac.uk/resources/sacu-spartan-test
Please follow this link to register for a free student account to gain access to the SPARTAN test, provided by SACU and GROWS. The test is completely free of charge and generates three separate suggestion clouds; University, Careers and Apprenticeships. You can then explore these clouds extensively and look at relevant links, data and help. It’s an extremely useful tool generated by ex-UCAS employees to help students make decisions. Registration provides students with a hub for storing their results and managing their findings.
Post 16 Education
Options at 16, 18 and alternatives to University. Applying for University, personal statements, applications.
Careers Resources
Useful interactive CV builder, cover letters, job quizzes.
Choices at 14, 16, 18. Different qualifications and routes and job information. Also has labour market information for the South West.
Alternative Choices
Recent Career Information
Labour market information for Gloucestershire and searching for job opportunities.
Work Experience
UK Youth volunteering 14-30 years volunteering opportunities.
Gloucestershire Aspiration Programme (GAP)
We work closely in partnership with the Gloucestershire Aspiration Programme (GAP). Which is a partnership of Gloucestershire-based universities and further education colleges working together to provide young people with high quality impartial information and activities about education opportunities beyond GCSEs.
The partnership is called GROWS and is led by the University of Gloucestershire in partnership with Cirencester College, Gloucestershire College, Hartpury College, Royal Agricultural University and South Gloucestershire and Stroud College.
The Gloucestershire Aspiration Programme (GAP) is a government funded initiative that aims to raise aspiration to university level study (higher education) amongst pupils from targeted areas in Gloucestershire.
Funding has been given to work with those who meet the following criteria:
- Pupils in years 9 to 11
- Pupils whose postcodes have been identified as having progression gaps, that is; pupils who have the prior attainment (ability/qualifications) to go to university but in comparison to other postcodes have much lower numbers of pupils who go on to study at university level.
- A postcode checker is available on our website www.grows.ac.uk should you want to check your own postcode.
- Pupils are being identified as having the potential to study at university level, this is based on their predicted GCSE results, for years 9 to 11.
The project will deliver a range of activities and events, some of these activities will be open to all pupils in the school from Year 9 upwards.
However, a range of activities will only be available (or priority booking of spaces) to those who meet the above criteria. This is based on the funding and prior data of those who do and don't go on to university, where research suggests that more support is needed for progression into university level study for children living in these areas.
Your child will be made aware what activity is open to them when it is promoted in school.
The GAP project is working with the school to provide a programme of a wide range of events and opportunities to support pupils in making informed decisions about their futures. GAP will fund and deliver a range of initiatives both in and out of school and for both pupils and parents / carers alike.
Activities include:
- Access to residential events on a college/university campus
- Motivational speakers to encourage pupils to think about their future goals/ambitions
- Study skills speakers to help with revision techniques
- Subject taster sessions for pupils to experience and learn about new subject/career areas
- Access to online tools to help pupils discover potential careers and identify their own skills and strengths
- Mentoring and buddying schemes to receive support from those who a similar age.
- Current university students delivering sessions on their experiences and highlighting the pros and cons of university study.
- Family/parent events about future educational options.
If you would like any more information, please visit our website www.grows.ac.uk or contact us at grows@glos.ac.uk or contact your school representative — Mrs Ania Hartsoe.
Can you support our Careers and Aspirations Programme?
Please complete this form if you feel that you can support our careers and aspirations programme. Examples of this could include giving talks to the students in person or virtually, allowing us to visit your place of work, providing contacts and additional material.
Alumni
Visit our alumni page to see a portfolio of some of our former students. If you would like to join or know someone who'd like to join our ever-growing alumni, please refer to our contact details at the top of this page.
GROWS Impact Report
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Aspirations CurriculumCareerometer
The Careerometer will give you current and update key information about jobs and careers sectors you are interested in and allow you to compare occupations. The widget will provide you with key information such as average pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects.
Simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget will provide a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you.
Careerometer
The Careerometer will give you current and update key information about jobs and careers sectors you are interested in and allow you to compare occupations. The widget will provide you with key information such as average pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects.
Simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget will provide a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you.
Gatsby Benchmarks
To learn more about the Gatsby Benchmarks please click the following link. https://www.gatsby.org.uk/education/focus-areas/good-career-guidance
Gatsby BenchmarksStrategic Objectives & Long Term Plan
For The Dean Academy’s 3 year careers and aspirations programme and strategic objectives please click here.
