Longlands, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4DE
Careers
Careers Guidance, Employability and Enterprise Education
Miss L Polson
Assistant Headteacher
(Careers Leader)
Email: taa-careers@adeyfield.aetrust.uk
Call: 01442 406020
Intent
We want to provide all of our students with a quality first careers education programme so they can be well prepared and informed about their next steps, transitions and pathways at all stages of their journey whilst at the academy. To prepare our students for the opportunities and challenges of today and throughout their future lives after Adeyfield, and to achieve economic and personal well-being; as well as promote the school’s values of ambition, courage, dignity, respect and compassion.
Students who engage in regular interactions with employers during their education are more likely to have higher employment rates and better earnings. Those who take part in workplace experiences, such as internships or employer-led activities, are far more likely to be in sustained employment, with significant earnings premiums compared to their peers without such experiences.
— UK Commission for Employment and Skills, Annual Report (2023)
Implementation
The Adeyfield Academy is there to support, advice and guide students in making informed choices; to leverage our ‘learning without limits’ mind-set for all our students. To ensure students learn about the world of work, employment and training opportunities available to them.
Our programme is based on fully implementing the 8 Gatsby Benchmarks of good careers advice:
- A stable careers programme
- Learning from career and labour market information
- Addressing the needs of each pupil
- Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Encounters with employers and employees
- Experiences of the workplaces
- Encounters with further and higher education
- Personal guidance
Careers-related learning is delivered through designated PSHCE Education lessons, employer engagement events, work shadowing and work experience, visiting speakers and workplace visits. We believe it is important it happens in the classroom, as part of our curriculum, and is not just discrete careers events. At The Adeyfield Academy we encourage all curriculum areas to embrace employer-led learning, using industry professionals and tailored resources to help deliver curriculum lessons, blending careers ideas with academic learning.
All students have access to our Herts YC advisor, with targeted appointments for students in Years 10, 11 and Sixth Form. Parents and carers are welcome to attend these appointments with their son/daughter.
To enhance our provision, we also work closely with the Careers and Enterprise Company and an Enterprise Advisor who review the Careers, Employability and Enterprise provision provided to ensure we are fully meeting the Gatsby Benchmarks.
The dedicated careers office has all the information students need to find out about GCSE courses, sixth form options, courses at college, Apprenticeship opportunities, University prospectus’, and job opportunities.
Post 16 Destinations
Impact
2023-24
- 100% of students who applied to university secured their first choice (2023-2024)
- 35% of students who applied to university, went to top universities (2023-2024)
2022-23
- 63% of Year 13 students applied to university, 100% of these students secured their firm or insurance choice (2022-2023).
- 33% of students attended prestigious universities, either Russell Group or the 1994 Group (2022-2023).
37% of Year 13 students secured employment with training (2022-2023). - 96.1% of Year 11 students applied to stay on for further education through apprenticeships, sixth form, or college (2022-2023).
Recent Apprenticeships and Employment Routes:
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Recent Universities attended:
2022
Royal Holloway University
Leeds Beckett University
Cardiff University
University of Westminster
University of Hertfordshire
Newcastle University
Chichester University
Bath Spa University
City University of London
SOAS University of London
University of Leeds
Essex University
Aberystwyth University
Brighton University
2023
Northampton University
Coventry University
University of Sussex
University of East Anglia
Lancaster University
University for the Creative Arts
University of Manchester
Brimingham City University
University of Leicester
Aberystwyth University
Royal Holloway University
2024
Middlesex University
Anglia Ruskin
UCFB, Wembley
Oxford Brookes
University College London
City University of London
Suffolk University
UWE Bristol
Southampton Solent
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Brighton University
University of Hertfordshire
Cardiff University
University of Westminster
Morgan Lewis Law Open Day 2025
Generation Dacorum Careers Fair 2024
Computercenter Visit 2024
Year 10 The Big Interview 2024
Information for Students and Parents / Carers
Information on the Local Labour Market can be found here.
Links you may find useful:
Real stories to inspire your career
Looking for that perfect career?
If you would like to assist with a careers event or to share your own career journey with our students please contact us by email at: taa-careers@adeyfield.aetrust.uk or call 01442 406020 for the attention of Imogen Walbank.
This information is reviewed annually; the next review date is September 2024.
Information on the Baker Clause - Provider Access Statement can be found below as an attachment.
The Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership and the Careers and Enterprise Company have created a careers portal all about careers and other opportunities within Hertfordshire.
Aimed at ages 13 - retirement the website is full of information for any students (or adults) who are looking into local employers that they can connect with, or work for.
View the website here
