Intent
We intend to provide students with a foundation of knowledge and skills, increase their awareness of a range of jobs, support their onward journey to higher education and their pathways into the job market. We aim to focus this qualification on skills that are related to the jobs that our students are most interested in, giving our pupils a better chance of employment if they choose to enter these vocations. We intend to keep the qualification fluid by observing current trends in the job market and choosing content to support current needs stated in publications from local authorities such as Dorset County Council.
Implementation
This qualification is delivered in-house using the facilities that we have within a double lesson, once a week. Our students will be supported in working to identify their own strengths throughout a range of units. Students will be provided with regular opportunities to speak to staff from different disciplines to raise their awareness of varying roles and to consider the individual qualities needed to secure a similar position themselves.
Impact
Students will have an improved knowledge of jobs that are available within the current local job markets and have an increased knowledge of the skills required to fulfil those roles successfully. Pupils will have gained a level 1 qualification at a level appropriate to them which they can carry forward into the next part of their journey towards successful employment.