A SCHOOL in Frome has been presented with an award for their high-quality careers programme.
Oakfield school was visited by a representative from Heart of South West Careers Trust who presented an award to the assistant head, Kate Bryan, and the head of key stage 3 curriculum, Kate Stewart, for the school achieving 100% on all the Government’s Gatsby Benchmarks – a framework for the careers provision at schools or colleges.
Louise Friend from Heart of South West Careers who presented the award said, “Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting Oakfield Academy with an award for achieving 100% on all of the Government’s Gatsby Benchmarks. Kate Bryan (assistant head) and Kate Stewart (head of KS3 curriculum), as careers leaders were awarded the certificate and have been an absolute pleasure to work with.
“Both have worked tirelessly, to ensure a high-quality careers programme is in place; which gives students access to a wide range of employer career talks, helps the development of key employability skills and gives students exposure to start learning about exciting future paths they could take.
“The programme includes a visit to Bath University, starting to understand what T Levels, Apprenticeships and Traineeships are, and a workshop has also been booked for Year 8 pupils to taste some vocational subjects from Bath College, all of which will give information pitched at the right level for this age group, to help ensure the options they are choosing for GCSE, will take them towards routes and careers of interest.
“Special mention must also go to Chris Salmon as the academy’s careers link trustee and to Mickey Green, managing director of Somerset Waste who is the school’s enterprise adviser.
“Oakfield Academy is currently ranking top of all the middle schools in Somerset against the Government’s careers benchmarks, which clearly denotes the excellent careers provision in place at the school.”
