Careers: Explorer

An interactive virtual workshop bringing students into contact with volunteers from business to learn about the different roles available, explore with them their career pathways and gain an understanding of the skills and qualifications they need to follow their own routes to work.

Gatsby Benchmarks:

This activity helps towards meeting the following Gatsby Benchmarks: (GB2) Learning from career and labour market information, (GB3) addressing the needs of each pupil and (GB5) encounters with employers.
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Years 8-11

How the day works?

The workshop starts with an introduction to the company and the breadth of jobs available within it.

 

Students then break into smaller groups with an assigned individual business volunteer via a breakout room.  This gives them the opportunity to quiz the volunteers about their roles, the skills they need and how their careers have developed.

 

The whole workshop then comes back together so that each breakout group can give a presentation about what they’ve learned about the volunteers they’ve interviewed.

 

The workshop concludes with a Q & A opportunity for students to learn more about the individual roles and what it’s like to work there.


Feeback from students highlights the value of the small group interaction

 

“The way you could communicate one-to-one with experienced work people”

 

This is a highly adaptable workshop that can be tailored to suit different year groups and many learning abilities.  SATRO staff will introduce and run the workshop and bring student materials.

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How much does it cost? 

Our workshops are adaptable to suit your timetable, and we can cater for the number of classes in each year group and provide back-to-back sessions across the school day, delivering the workshop to different class groups, with two sessions before lunch or one after.


We have to make a charge to cover our staff and materials costs, but our pricing is structured to enable this flexibility.


Thanks to charitable funding we have raised which supports State Secondary and SEN schools, we are able to offer heavily subsidised rates:

  • 1 Workshop session £210
  • 2 Workshop sessions £315

For Independent Schools:

  • 1 Workshop session £315
  • 2 Workshop sessions £570

For all schools:
•Bookings on 2 consecutive days qualify for a 10% discount
•3 or more bookings on different dates made in same enquiry qualify for a 10% discount


We are often able to approach companies for funding to support this event particularly for schools with high levels of Pupil Premium/SEN.  Please enquire when booking.