Organisation that will be there for any questions you may have include:
Ask Apprenticeship Service
Askham Bryon College
Army
East Durham Houghall College
Gateshead College
Learning Curve Skills Centre
Milltech
NEETA Ltd
NEMTA
New College Durham
Newcastle College
SETA
South Tyneside College
Springboard
Sunderland College
Nissan
Northern Rights Pathfinder
Northern School of Art
University of Sunderland
University of Newcastle
University of Northumbria
Careers Convention
Earn to Live
Earn to Live is our whole school careers event held in the spring term. During the 2 days, all pupils will take part in a range of careers related activities such as:
Year 7 Destination Uni at University of Sunderland
Year 8 Mental Wellbeing and Careers with Sunderland College
Year 9 FutureMe, Medical Mavericks and Career Options with Newcastle College
Year 10 Experiences of the Workplace
Year 11 Being a Top Student at Durham University
Being Employable with DWP
Where Am I Headed? With East Durham College
There is also a series of 90 minute “Careers in……” workshops which offers every student a meaningful encounter with an employee from a different industry sector and a hands on experience of a task that this job involves.
Gatsby
The Gatsby Benchmarks are 8 standards against which schools and colleges can measure and improve their careers provision.
- 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 for further and higher education
- Personal guidance
Our current progress towards meeting the benchmarks is shown in our termly Compass report.
Thornhill Academy is working as part of the north east’s second careers hub with the NELEP. This is allowing us to work collaboratively with schools from across the region to share best practice and innovate.