Mayfield School | Careers Newsletter – Issue 4 – July 2020

Careers at Mayfield Mrs Denford is the Careers Leader at Mayfield School and Kelly Chinorwadza is the Careers Practitioner from EBP South. If you feel you would benefit from some careers guidance please email Chinorwadza- kelly@mayfield..sch.uk or Mrs Denford on [email protected]. You can also use [email protected]

There are a number of careers related activities you can be doing now to help you with your future plans. Please read through the suggestions here and visit the webpages that are suitable for you.

General Careers Advice and Support Careers websites and quizzes

https://www.ebpsouth.co.uk/career- www.startprofile.com support-through-coronavirus www.sacu-student.com https://www.sunoutreach.org/resource- category/flying-start-portsmouth/ https://icould.com/buzz-quiz/ https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/

Careers Pages On the Mayfield website you can find our careers pages https://mayfield.portsmouth.sch.uk/about-us/careers

There are some useful links and resources including career pilot where you can research careers https://www.careerpilot.org.uk/

Upcoming Events and Useful Weblinks

Local Colleges – most of the colleges have their new prospectuses available to look at online or you can request it to be posted to you. They have also released the open event dates for October 2020.

Chichester College – https://www.chichester.ac.uk/ - 13th October – 4.30 – 7pm

Havant and South Downs College - https://www.hsdc.ac.uk/ Visit also www.hsdc.ac.uk/getting-ahead for classwork to get you started on your chosen course.

Wednesday 7 October 5pm – 8pm - Havant Campus

Tuesday 13 October 5pm – 8pm - South Downs Campus Open Morning: Saturday 7 November 10am – 1pm - Havant and South Downs Campuses

Highbury College – www.highbury.ac.uk – 7th & 8th October – 4.30-7.30pm

Take a look at ’s recent online Open Event here: https://www.highbury.ac.uk/virtual-open-event- june- 2020/

Fareham College - https://www.fareham.ac.uk/ - open event – 5th September

Portsmouth College - https://www.portsmouth-college.ac.uk/ - 6th October 6-8.30pm & 7th October – 5-7.30pm

UTC Portsmouth - http://www.utcportsmouth.org/events – 7th October – 5-7pm

Sparsholt - https://www.sparsholt.ac.uk/the-college/ There is a presentation on the Careers page of the website all about this College under Post 16 Providers.

Apprenticeships

https://amazingapprenticeships.com/ - general apprenticeship help

https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship – search for vacancies

https://www.peta.co.uk/ - Business, Engineering and IT

https://stevewillis.com/apprenticeships/thinking-about-an-apprenticeship - gas, electrical, oil and plumbing

The are offering a virtual summer school for year 10 pupils. You must register for the summer school and the recordings of this event are available on this link until 1st August. https://www.port.ac.uk/collaborate/schools-and-colleges/pre-16-events/register-for-virtual- summer-school