Year 8
– CIAG Programme (Hitting Benchmarks 2, 3, 4, 5, 8)
Year 8 partake in a Challenge Day in the summer term. It enables students to come face to face with real life business challenges and touch base on other areas including careers, employability and teambuilding.
Through Year 8 STEPS lessons students have an introduction to Gender Equality within the workplace. Students are involved in SAS (Skills Action Service) from Year 7 – 8. Students partake in a variety of courses which are designed to ensure they develop a range of skills, using them to serve a local, national or even international community. This part of our curriculum achieves a wide variety of objectives: students develop essential skills and attributes such as project management skills, self-confidence and enterprise. Their exposure to a variety of opportunities will contribute to their own personal development. Students will be provided with many of the key enterprise skills needed in today’s society. These include skills such as leadership, teamwork, planning and design, working to deadlines, risk taking, ICT and communication skills.
Useful Links
Summer term sees students partaking in Geek Week, where teachers explore work related applications for their subjects that is not related to the curriculum for example:
- English – Journalism
- Drama – Sales/Events
- PE – Sports therapy/massage
- Maths – Accounting
- Business Studies – Practical Issues of running a business
Teachers share their knowledge, outsource guest speakers or organise trips to back up their topic which allows students the opportunity to gain further encounters with employers and career choices.