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- [email protected] 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 Highbury College’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 University of Portsmouth 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 .