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Careers impact

Bedlington Academy has a robust CEIAG programme that is integrated into all parts of our school community. It incorporates both formal CEIAG education, guidance activities and interviews, and careers information provided throughout individual subject areas. Students will be exposed to a variety of external speakers, alumni, employers and higher education provisions throughout their time at Bedlington Academy. 

By having a structured programme of events, monitoring and evaluation allows us to ensure the quality of our provision and we then use this information to inform future decision making.  

Monitoring activities adopted by Bedlington Academy are: 

  • Learning walks 
  • Lesson observations 
  • Questionnaires – with students, staff, parents & carers and external agencies 
  • Student voice 
  • Whole school careers tracking using Unifrog 
  • Work scrutiny 
  • Planning scrutiny 

Evaluation activities are used to measure the impact of our careers programme and inform the planning of future events. Evaluation activities adopted by Bedlington Academy are: 

  • Analysis of the whole school tracking system on Unifrog 
  • Feedback from the personal guidance interviews 
  • Student voice 
  • Lesson observations 
  • Questionnaires – with students, staff, parents & carers and external agencies 
  • Destination data

Each academic year the Careers Leader will write an Action Plan which will be reviewed annually and the provision on offer to students will be audited using the Compass Tool. 

Our destination data 

Destination

2020 (%)

2021 (%)

2022 (%)

2023 (%)

2024 (%)

2025 (%)

Sixth Form

24

29

25

30

30

32

College

68

64

62

40

53

57

Apprenticeship

6

5

11

11

12

7

Other

0

1

1

10

2

0

NEET

3

1

1

4

3

2 (3)

 

 

 

Destination

2020 (%)

2021 (%)

2022 (%)

2023 (%)

2024 (%)

2025 (%)

University

68

64

86

62

79

75

College

0

0

0

0

0

0

Apprenticeship

11

16

7

35

7

18

Employment

14

12

7

1

14

11

NEET

7

0

0

3

0

0