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This newsletter is aimed at parents and carers, our students and staff. We hope that the content is helpful to you all in understanding why careers education is so important to our student’s future plans and provide you with some tips and information to support careers conversations and research both at home and in school. If you have any questions , or there are specific topics that you would like us to feature , please email us and we will do our very best to ensure they get covered in the next edition. We aim to release one newsletter per school term. You can send any ideas you have to:  \n[alisongoode@exceptional-ideas.co.uk](alisongoode@exceptional-ideas.co.uk)  \nThe Gatsby Benchmarks: Good Career Guidance  \nSo called as they were created by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, the benchmarks (shown below) are the framework that schools and colleges use for careers guidance and education. They were designed to improve social mobility and increase the career aspirations of all students regardless of academic ability, economic background or a student’s individual challenges. It’s the responsibility of the transition team at Exceptional Ideas Ltd. to create an engaging careers programme and to identify the best way for each individual student to access the programme so that they receive a rounded careers education and are fully prepared for a successful transition into Post-16 education. Careers education in schools is monitored nationally through Ofsted inspection and compliance to the following benchmarks:  \n1. A stable careers programme  \n2. Learning from career and labour market information  \n3. Addressing the needs of each student  \n4. Linking curriculum to careers  \n5. Encounters with employers and employees  \n6. Experiences of workplaces  \n7. Encounters with further and higher education  \n8. Personal guidance  \nImproving social mobility and preparing our students for education and work in the future isn’t a new concept to us, it has always been a priority for us at Exceptional Ideas. However, the introduction of the benchmarks has introduced lots of new resources to help us improve our careers programme and has enabled us to make it more accessible to our students.  \n“The dreaming has to be backed up by the doing”  \n-Carrie Wilkerson, best selling author and international speaker  \nTips for discussing careers at home  \nIt can be difficult to start conversations about careers at home, here are some ideas to encourage discussion:  \n➢ Talk to your young person about your own and other family members careers journeys  \n➢ Encourage them to imagine their life in 10 years time, what does it look like?  \n➢ Discuss their interests, likes and dislikes as well as their talents  \n➢ Ask them to consider the type of environment they would prefer to work in, i.e. inside or outside, large or small, in one fixed place like an office or on the move  \n➢ Listen to them and try not to make decisions for them  \nSPOTLIGHT ON… T. LEVELS  \nYou might not know about T levels yet as they are a recent addition to post-16 qualifications. T (Technical) Levels are 2 year courses that are based on 80% classroom time and 20% at work.  \nYou can complete a T Level in the following subjects:  \nBuilding Services Engineering for Construction, Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction, Digital Business Services. Digital Production, Design and Development, Digital Support Services , Education and Childcare, Health, Healthcare Science,  \nOnsite Construction , Science.  \nFor more information click this link: [https://www.tlevels.gov.uk/](https://www.tlevels.gov.uk/)  \nLEVELS, LEVELS, LEVELS!  \nLevels is a word that will arise time and time again during our time at school. 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