How to achieve Gatsby Benchmark 4 

Each faculty has a subject page on this portal! You will find websites, videos and activities that you can add into your schemes of work to help you achieve GB4, plus you can ask Mel Garwood-Evans or Caroline Ritchie for help.

Google slides

When starting a new topic with your students, you could use this slide to highlight any careers linked to your subject. The template can be found here.

Starters & Plenaries

• Talk about post 14, post 16 pathways in your subject

• Which jobs DON'T need English*?

• What jobs do you think I have had?

• Name a job that links with History* - can you get a job that no one else can?

• Job alphabet  - name a job for every letter of the alphabet that is linked to Spanish*

• Job hangman

• Watch a video to do with jobs and the topic you are studying. e.g physiotherapy if you are studying sports injuries  - Unifrog, Careers Pilot and BBC bitesize all have good videos and activities

*replace with your subject

Homework

• Use Unifrog to research different jobs linked to your subject

• What is the most interesting job you can find to do with your subject?

• Find out the highest paid jobs to do with your subject

• Research a famous person connected to your subject, how did thy get started?

• Watch a video about jobs in your subject

• Ask students to pick a career, and write a piece on what they’re doing in your lessons that links

• Interview a family member about their job / career

Get in a visiting speaker or host a virtual talk

• Ask speakers to come in and give talks – eg. employers linked to your subject area, or people who have studied your subject.

• Ask a visitor to come in and the student has to guess what job they do by asking them questions

• Bring in a past student to talk about their careers pathway. We are lucky to have a huge alumni network on Future First, speak to Mel Garwood-Evans to request a speaker.

• Use Speakers for School and find a virtual talk in their library

Trips and Visits

Even if your trip is not specifically about careers e.g watching a  professional football match,  you can make a link to careers by

• allocating 20 mins to a Q&A session for students to ask the host about how they got into their job.

• set students the task of coming up with the longest list of jobs found at the trip venue.

• seeing if the venue can organise for you to speak to different people who do interesting jobs.

Clubs

Use your clubs to introduce different career roles

• Reading club - talk about authors, copy writers, book cover designers, proof readers etc

• STEM club - link with a local business e.g Align JV

• Forensic Psychology club - ask to student to identify job roles linked to solving a crime. Go one step further, and create a crime scene for students to solve

Create a display

Create a display board of careers linked to your subject. You'll find a variety of posters here.

Career Websites