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If you have not received the shout out request then please feel free to contact the school direct if you can support:

• Summer term (flexible) – Beverley School, Linking Curriculum to Career Sessions, Anne Titchener, Titchener.A@beverleyschool.org.uk

• 6th June 2018 - Nunthorpe Academy, Apprenticeship Talk, Contact - Natasha Wills, nwills@nunthorpe.co.uk

• 12th June 2018 - Acklam Grange School, Employer Workshop, Contact - Dale Clement, clement.d@acklamgrange.org.uk

• 13th June 2018 - Stockton Sixth Form College, Careers and Progression Fair, Contact - Jillian McGuren, events@stocktonsfc.ac.uk

• 15th June 2018- Sacred Heart Secondary Catholic Voluntary Academy – Make It Happen Day, Contact – Jill Wright, j.wright@sacredheartrc.org.uk

• 20th June & 22nd June - Outwood Academy Acklam, Year 10 Employer Networking & Mock Interview Events, Contact - Andy Veale, careersinc@acklam.outwood .com

• 21st June 2018 - KTS Academy, Careers Day, Contact - Alex Betts, abetts@ktsacademy.org.uk

• 29th June 2018 - Laurence Jackson School, Year 10 Interview Day, Contact - Deborah Wyke, wyked@laurencejackson.org

• 3rd July 2018 - Prior Pursglove College, Progression Fair, Contact - Diane Bate, d.bate@tvc.ac.uk

Up and coming Individual School / College events!!!!

Update on the Tees Valley Enterprise Adviser NetworkThe Tees Valley Enterprise Adviser Network continues to grow and expand. We would like to say a massive thank you to all of you that continue to support this highly successful initiative.

The work that you do helps to develop and implement a consistent and impartial careers strategy in schools and colleges across the Tees Valley area in line with the Gatsby Benchmarks, enabling schools to make pupils aware of the opportunities around them and help raise aspirations of our future workforce.

We currently have 63 Enterprise Advisers signed up to the Enterprise Adviser Network covering a diverse range of business sectors. Please feel free to encourage your colleagues via your networks to contact our Enterprise Coordinators; Phil Todd, Kim Upex or Andrea Naylor, if they would like any further information on becoming an Enterprise Adviser.

Update on schools/colleges using Compass Compass helps schools and colleges evaluate their careers activity against best practice. The evaluation is based on the Gatsby Good Career Guidance Benchmarks. The tool is free to use and has been developed by the Careers and Enterprise Company in partnership with the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.

49 schools across the Tees Valley area have completed their Compass evaluation and are looking at how they can improve their careers provision to fully achieve the eight benchmarks. This is 74% of schools in Tees Valley compared to the national average of 39%.

The Tracker tool, also developed by the Careers and Enterprise Company enables schools and colleges to plan and evidence future events. For more information please visit:

https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/schools-colleges/compass-benchmark-tool

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Beverley Schools Enterprise Adviser Janine Armstrong (CIPD) arranged the Careers Fair for the school. Employers and training providers were invited to talk to students about their industry and the career opportunities available to them. Companies that attended were Topps Tiles, Jury’s Inn, EE, Marks & Spencer, James Cook NHS, ESPA College, Flexi Training and Nigel Carden from SENDIAS. Parents were also invited to attend the event as well as other SEND schools where they took along a small group of students from KTS Academy, Priory Woods and Kirkleatham Hall.

Trevor Tiit, Careers Lead at Beverley School, ‘The quality of presentations by the employers was outstanding with students thoroughly engaged, enjoying themselves and of course gaining a valuable insight into work within a range of sectors. Parental involvement was also an important part of the event with a good level of attendance and again finding valuable information that could help shape their son’s and daughter’s future options.’

Beverley School had their first ever Careers Fair and it was a resounding success!

Case Studies

The career event has built up good leads/contacts in order to work with in the future. All employers enjoyed the event and said they would be willing to work with us again.’

JacobsJacobs based in Stockton have a structured Industrial

Work Placement Programme which runs twice per year

for students interested in a career in engineering. The

programme is accredited by the Industrial Cadets (IC) for

a silver award.

22 schools have already taken part in this successful

programme and Jacobs are looking to engage with as many

school as possible across Tees Valley. The programme

runs within the school holiday period and helps students

understand how engineering fits into real life. They have

the opportunity to experience a variety of disciplines in the

industry as well as learning about project management,

presentation skills, and are given information around

routes into apprenticeships or university.

If you are interested in students from your school taking

part contact Victoria Richards, Jacobs Project Manager at

victoria.richards2@jacobs.com

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BT Computer Science Learning Festival

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Catcote Academy CPD Event This event was directly supported by Tees Valley Combined Authority, The Careers & Enterprise Company North East Lead Karleen Dowden and Catcote Academy’s Enterprise Adviser Mark Rycraft, who is the Middleton Grange Shopping Centre Manager.

The aim of the event was to upskill and provide continuous professional development for 100 staff members from Catcote Academy.

The event took place Wednesday the 25th April at the academy’s main site. The focus of the event was to raise awareness of the new national careers strategy and more specifically inform staff about the Gatsby Benchmarks. Catcote staff took part in activities in which they worked in teams to look at key aspects of the Gatsby Benchmarks, compared the academy’s current provision against the benchmarks and looked at exploring new innovative ways of embedding the Gatsby Benchmarks further. Following staff feedback from the event, the Catcote careers team are now generating a more detailed careers strategy for the academy as a whole.

BT (Business Direct) have joined forces with Tablet Academy to offer schools and colleges in the Tees Valley area the opportunity to host and take part in a free Computer Science Learning Festival. There are 2 festivals, Computational Thinking Festival and Cyber Safety Festival. As part of the Computational Thinking Festival, teachers and students will gain a core understanding of the main principles of Computer Science. The Cyber Safety Festival focusses on staying safe online and introduces teachers and students to the growing field of cyber security.

Both of these sessions are interactive, informative and fun and those in attendance will have a great opportunity to speak to large companies such as Apple and Microsoft about their technology. As well as been given information about the BT apprenticeship programmes and work placement offers that are currently available.

BT have already worked with numerous schools in Tees Valley: ■ Bishopton PRU

■ Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form

■ Hummersknott Academy

■ High Tunstall College of Science

■ Dyke House School

■ Hartlepool College

■ St Hilds C of E

■ Egglescliffe School

■ Abbey Hill Academy

■ Carmel College

■ Hollis Academy

■ Stockton Sixth Form College

If your school would like to take part in any of the festivals, contact Ian Todd, Senior IT Consultant at ian.2.todd@bt.com

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Kirkleatham School re launch their on-site caféEnterprise Adviser Victoria Shanks of Hospitality Guaranteed has supported the school with their re launch of their café by helping them create a menu and provide advice on the best ways to run and manage this excellent facility. Through Victoria’s contacts the school has been able to speak to their Local Authority, who have provided further advice and support on hygiene requirements. Students were able to work in the café giving them a real experience of a work opportunity and a paid incentive. A £500 profit was made and the school were able to purchase new garden furniture for the outside area.

Vicky McDermott, CEIAG Lead, ‘We are absolutely delighted with the success of the café, the official launch day was amazing. The students worked so hard and really enjoyed the experience. We couldn’t have done any of this without the support of our Enterprise Adviser and we feel we couldn’t have been given a better match, we love working with Victoria and the partnership is going from strength to strength. She has supported us as a school in many ways and made links for us to other organisations that we would not have been able to make ourselves.’

New Government Careers Strategy: Making the most of everyone’s skills and talents In December 2017, the Department of Education released its new career guidance strategy which includes plans for a high-quality careers programme. From January 2018 schools and colleges should use the eight Gatsby Benchmarks to guide their careers activity provision and the government’s aim is for them to meet all eight benchmarks by 2020.

The strategy is aimed at ensuring young people have the skills they need with a particular focus on STEM subjects.

The Enterprise Adviser Network links directly to the new strategy, which connects local employers to schools and colleges in their area, offering young people meaningful encounters with employers and the workplace, which is having a positive impact.

Departmentfor Education

• Jessica Maine & Amie Leyden Endeavour Partnership

• Alastair Lloyd Consultant

• Kerry Bailey My Business Coaching

• Zoe Tweddle Offshore Structure

• George Bradley & Glenn Gowling MOD (Navy)

• Sarah Blake Blake and Blake Consultant

• Andy Burtenshaw HR Academia

• Sharon Bew - CITB

• Tracey Collier - Tesco

• Victoria Richards - Jacobs

• Anna McLaren & Karen Winspea - Skills for Care

• Carol Wright Carroll - Maynell

• Gill Sweeney Thirteen Group

• Lorraine Pickering - Wynyard Hall

• Adam Pearce Thirteen Group

• Carly Davies Thirteen Group

• Diane Young Thirteen Group

• Anne Rutter Thirteen Group

• Abby Burr - Centre for Process and Innovation

Welcome to new businesses supporting the Enterprise Advisor Network

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Thursday 5thJuly 2018

Teesside University

SKILLS & STEM EVENT

The Tees Valley Skills & STEM Event 2018 is taking place Thursday 5th July. For more information about the event please visit:

www.teesvalley-ca.gov.uk/teesvalleyskills/employment-and-skills-events/tees-valley-skills-event/

To book your learners on to attend the event or if you would be interested in exhibiting at the event to showcase the sector area that you work in please contact Kelly.Britton-Hawes@teesvalley-ca-gov.uk

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Recent activities supported via the EA network

April 18 Abbey Hill 6th Form, Careers Fair

April 18 April 18 – Dyke House 6th Form, Careers Scheme

April 18 H’pool FE College, Careers in Health and Construction

April 18 April 18 – High Tunstall School, Mock Interviews

Mar 18 Bede 6th Form, Conference looking at alternative careers

Mar 18 St Hilds School, Careers Fair

Mar 18 North Shore Academy, Careers Fair

Mar 18 Dyke House School, Careers into the Curriculum

Mar 18 Haughton Academy, Business Carousel & Mock Interviews

Mar 18 Queen Elizabeth 6th Form, Careers Fair & Mock Interviews

Mar 18 Nunthorpe Academy & 6th Form, Mock Interviews

Mar 18 English Martyrs School, Y12 Mentor Programme

Mar 18 Abbey Hill Academy, Careers Fair

Feb 18 Hillsview Academy, Careers Convention - Learning Curve

Feb 18 Sacred Heart, Mock Interviews

Feb 18 Carmel College 6th Form, Careers Fair

Feb 18 Thornaby, Careers Fair

Feb 18 Egglescliffe School, Careers Fair

Jan-Feb18 Beverley School, Employment Awareness Sessions

Jan-Feb18 Dyke House, Employability Tutorial Workshops

Jan 18 Catcote School, School Workshop

Jan 18 High Tunstall School, Careers Fair

Jan 18 Laurence Jackson School, Employability Workshop

Jan 18 Thornaby Academy, Mock Interviews

Jan 18 Freebrough Academy, Careers and Mock Interviews

Jan 18 Carmel College, Careers Fair

Jan 18 Hurworth School, Careers Fair

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Events & Toolkit

General information on the Careers & Enterprise Company Nationally

■ Careers and Enterprise Company- we in-spire and prepare young people for the fast changing world of work – Links to info and tools to support the EA network.

■ https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/

New Enterprise Adviser and SEND toolkit is now available

■ https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/about-us/our-network/enterprise-adviser-re-sources?password=resources&op=Sub-mit&form_build_id=form-bpkOi8kQN-Mh5I-Zu8uzlQh_IQW0Ie2lEqokiWhFTMmw&-form_id=cec_password_pages_password_form&url=

■ Enterprise Adviser Closed Group LinkedIn page

■ https://www.linkedin.com/start/join?trk=login_reg_redirect&session_re-direct=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fgroups%2F8573104%2Fmembers

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The 7th annual Tees Valley Business Summit is taking place on Tuesday 3rd July 2018 at Teeside University. Delivered by Tees Valley Combined Authority and Tees Valley Business Compass. For more information visit www.teesvalleysummit.co.uk

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