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Posted on: January 13th 2025

Exciting Futures Await Year 11 consider their next steps at the Preparing For Opportunities Conference

On Monday 13th January our Year 11 students enjoyed a one day conference to help them prepare for life after school.

The students were able to choose three career taster workshops during the day. These interactive sessions were led by professionals within their field of expertise. The workshops explored the variety of jobs available in each area, the skills and qualifications needed and the working environment.

Students had a chance to: experience a virtual escape room which provided insight into cyber security, explore the role of a modern engineer, the life of a city and finance executive, understand the challenges of becoming a doctor, design and create structures, learn how to become a nurse or a paramedic, discover a range of digital careers - plus many other activities!

The students were able to choose from twenty-two different potential career sectors ranging from Art & Design and the creative industries through to Medicine, Nursing, Computer Science, Business & Marketing, Sport Science, Psychology, Law and everything in-between! The students were given a unique insight into potential career paths and were able to put questions to an expert at the end of each session.

The conference proved to be both an enjoyable and successful day and you will find some reflections from our students below:

Lakai: “It was such a diverse day and offered a lot of different activities.”

Dilan: “The inclusiveness and hands on experience gave me crucial information to base future decisions on.”

Aliyan: “I was given detailed answers to my questions which is really helpful.”

Sanket: “I was given knowledge about qualifications and how competitive a job in cyber security can be.”

Aswika: “I really liked the way each workshop presented their own life experiences and pathways in their industry.”

Ella: “Such a fun way to learn and experience the different career options that are open to me in the future.”

We also had some lovely feedback from our wonderful team of workshop facilitators who were very impressed by the scope of the day with so many choices for the students.

We are very grateful to all the presenters who gave up their time to plan and deliver a fantastic set of workshops.