This project if fully funded by The Hearn Foundation.
Current visits by employers, though welcome, often interrupt the flow of GCSE lessons or take part in the non-academic part of the curriculum. This project looks to change that. The Employer Engagement Project integrates employer visits into specific curriculum areas, linking careers into subject content to both enrich, update, engage and make pupils understand the relevance of what they are learning in their lessons to the jobs market.
The project aims to raise pupil aspirations by exposing them to strong role models that will act as a foil to other more negative influences in their lives. The project supports teachers by linking employers’ job roles and the relevant part of the school curriculum. The aim being that the pupils will see the relevance of what is learned in the classroom to the world of work and being able to address the pupils’ cries of ‘why are we learning this’?
The project allows students the opportunity to engage with employers, learning about their journeys and asking questions directly.
The aim is to address changes in aspiration, changes in attitude to education and changes in confidence with regards to transition skills and bridge the disconnect between the pupils’ personal experience so far to being able to clearly visualise, themselves taking up such a role, shown by the employer, in the future.
The Employer Engagement Project:
If you are a school based in Hampshire (including Portsmouth, Basingstoke and Southampton) who would like more information about the project please email enquiries@ebpsouth.co.uk.
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