As part of National Apprenticeship Week, North Tyneside Council’s Connexions service will be hosting their ever-popular ‘Get Up and Go’ training and employment event.
‘Get Up and Go’ aims to raise awareness and understanding of apprenticeships amongst young people aged 15-19 and their families. It has proved to be a popular event, with over 250 young people attending in 2014.
The session will run from 10.30am to 1.30pm on Saturday, March 14 at the council’s HQ on Cobalt Business Park. Young people can drop in at any point for any length of time during the session.
This year’s event will feature around 35 employers and providers who are actively seeking to employ and support apprentices within their business. These will include opportunities within businesses such as Accenture, Capita, Owen Pugh, Rolls Royce, Northumbria Healthcare and North Tyneside Council. There will also be organisations offering various volunteering opportunities.
Advisers from the Connexions service will be at the event to offer any advice or information, if necessary.
North Tyneside Council headquarters are located at Quadrant East, Cobalt Business Park, Silverlink North, NE27 0BY.
Connexions
Dave Bowie is the Link Connexions Personal Adviser (Careers Adviser) for Marden High School
What does a Personal Adviser do?
They help with career planning in relation to giving information, advice and guidance in developing career ideas; They help people explore appropriate courses, apprenticeships, jobs and volunteering as well as supporting people to develop CVs and personal statements for application forms, and lots more.
Who do they see?
They interview pupils from year 9 upwards. Everyone in year 10 is invited to a meeting to start thinking early about career ideas. Most year 11 students are also invited to a meeting to finalise their transition plans.
What happens in the careers interview?
Students will be invited to their interview via e-mail.
Students will have the opportunity to discuss career ideas and look at all options available to get into individual careers. Barriers to careers such as academic achievement, personal skills, health and labour market availability will be considered when exploring careers. Back up plans will also be discussed as well as looking at other careers that may be of interest that relate to ideas and personal strengths. But if anyone is unsure, then ways of getting the information needed to make decisions, or to keep options open, will be explored.
In the week after the interview students will be sent an action plan electronically, which will be a summary of the discussion; including action points for student and adviser and also useful websites and general career information.
How they can be contacted?
Dave Bowie is normally in Marden High School on a Tuesday; however, he is usually in at least one other day on a Monday, Wednesday or Thursday. The Adviser works in the Advice and Guidance Room, which is in Inclusion 2 on the 2nd floor near Geography 2. If he is around then he is happy to see students during breaks, or will take details so as to arrange a future meeting. Angela Towes also helps out in the school so she may see a number of students.
There are also weekly drop-ins on a Tuesday lunch time.
You can telephone 0191 643 6965, mobile 07583225990, or email on [email protected]
Further details on website www.connexions-tw.co.uk
For those Year 11 parents who missed our briefing evening, we have made the slides available here for you.
