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.

1. A stable careers programme
2. Learning from career and labour market information
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers
5. Encounters with employers and employees
6. Experiences of workplaces
7. Encounters for further and higher education
8. 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.