National Careers Week 2020
This year National Careers week is running from 2nd-6th March and is the opportunity to raise the profile of Careers across your school or college.
The National Careers week website nationalcareersweek.com provides a range of resources that you can use in your institution to engage learners.
There is also a section of the website dedicated to National Careers week 2020: www.ncw2020.co.uk
They have a selection of resources you might find useful to promote the week including:
- Save the date posters
- Event posters
- Form time activities
- NCW Assemblies for KS 2-4
- Worksheets
- Wordsearches and crosswords
Additional ideas you can use:
- The HE Progression Adviser team at HeppSY will be sending out a series of slides to you linked to 10 subject areas. These can be used at the start of subject lessons to link the subject to career areas
- The HE Progression Adviser team can be booked in for careers activities including career guidance interviews and careers in the curriculum sessions
- Staff can display their own education and career journey on classroom doors to show students the range of routes and courses available (Career Path Door Signs Resource available at www.ncw2020.co.uk)
- The buzz quiz is available at www.icould.com which is a quick quiz that will generate career ideas for students. It also has videos of lots of different careers which can be shared with students
- Use display boards and plasma screens in school to showcase case studies of past students and their career journeys
- Add to displays with famous people who have studied your subject or have jobs in each subject area
National Careers week is a great opportunity to get all staff and students engaged with thinking about their career journey and all of their future opportunities. You can also use #NCW2020 to promote further your activities and see what other institutions are doing. The HeppSY Twitter account will be keeping you up to date with everything HeppSY is doing during the week @HeppSYplus
