Careers Guidance

Through a planned Careers programme, Bromley Beacon Academy aims to contribute to raising aspirations, creating positive self-image, increasing self-confidence, improving motivation and overcoming barriers to success.

Our school has a critical role to play in preparing our young people for the next stage of their education or training and beyond. Our expectations are high, so every student is challenged appropriately and acquires the knowledge, skills and attitudes for lifelong learning that employers will value. This will help every young person to enhance their employability and realise their potential.

Our Careers Leader is Michelle Graydon.
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Careers Skills

We recognise the importance of developing the careers skills of our young people through our provision for Careers Guidance. We believe that young people need these skills to manage their own careers and to contribute to the well-being of themselves, their families, the communities and the wider society of which they are a part, the environment and the economy.

The school's careers provision, therefore, needs to help students to develop their self-efficacy, raise their aspirations and help them carry out career exploration. They must also become more adaptable and resilient, make decisions and transitions, be more enterprising and be able to present themselves well in applications and interviews.

We are therefore working towards the 8 Gatsby Principles to ensure all our young people are able to access high quality information, advice and guidance throughout their time with us.

The eight Gatsby benchmarks of Good Career Guidance

A stable careers programme
Learning from career and labour market information
Addressing the needs of each pupil
Linking curriculum learning to careers
Encounters with employers and employees
Experiences of workplaces
Encounters with further and higher education
Personal guidance

As part of our careers programme we believe employability skills are extremely important, which is why we ensure all young people have work experience opportunities in KS4 and KS5.

We also believe ‘employability and transferable skills’ are an essential part of our day to day curriculum to give our young people the skills to make them ‘employable’ in the future. The top 10 skills that employers want and seek in potential employees are:

Communication and interpersonal skills
Problem solving skills
Using your initiative and being self-motivated
Organisational skills
Working under pressure and to deadlines
Team working
Ability to learn and adapt
Numeracy
Valuing diversity and difference
Negotiation Skills

Careers Programme

There is a planned Careers Programme throughout the year for all students from Year 7. The programme is reviewed regularly to ensure the needs of all students are being met.

The Careers programme is monitored through the School Development plan.

All careers events are evaluated by staff, students and providers to ensure learning objectives are met.

Destinations at KS4 and KS5 are closely monitored and students are supported after leaving school where necessary.

The number of NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) figures remain low and preferably at 0%

Useful Documents/Links

Curious about jobs in different sectors?

Why not use the widget below to get easy access to current labour market information. You can find out more about potential wages, demand for skills in a specific sector and common tasks expected of an employee in a specific role.