This section of the website is intended for Students, Parents/Carers, Teachers and Employers wanting to find out more about our Careers Education programme.
At Longdean School we seek to help students make informed choices and transitions affecting their future education, training and employment. Specifically, we are concerned with promoting self-awareness, self-development and personal assessment.
It aims to prepare young people for their working lives by enabling them to review previous transitions, their interests, aptitudes and preferred approaches to learning and to identify targets for developing skills to prepare for future choices and transition. The programme enables young people to develop the career management skills of decision-making, action planning and self-presentation.
You can contact Careers at Longdean
email Careers@Longdean.herts.sch.uk
phone 01442 205 754
We aim to:
We aim to:
To find out more about our careers and work related programme, refer to the useful documents.
Careers Activity Plan
Careers Education and Guidance Policy
Provider Access Statement
Parents and carers play a very significant role in helping students to make informed choices about their study options and their future careers. We encourage parents and carers to discuss these with their child and may find information from The National Careers Services beneficial in this.
We welcome parents and carers’ input and recommend that you always attend activities at school such as GCSE and A-Level Options’ evenings. For the most update information on opportunities available to your child please join our social media sites Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
Should you wish to discuss your child’s future options please contact their form tutor in the first instance or our Careers Leader, Miss Patel
Unifrog brings all the available information, such as Post 16 options and apprenticeship opportunities into one single, impartial, user-friendly platform that helps students to make the best choices, and submit the strongest applications.
They also empower teachers and counselors to manage the progression process effectively.
Unifrog will be used for Year 10 work experience and Year 9 work shadowing placement organisation.
All Year 11 students will attend the Generation Dacorum Careers Fair as part of the school day.
Longdean offers a wide variety of subjects and facilities for students.
As well as supporting their academic achievement, we provide our sixth-formers with opportunities, through our PSHE and tutoring programmes, careers guidance and enrichment activities, to develop skills beyond the classroom that will benefit them later in life.
For more details see Sixth Form which has more detaisl and the curriculum we offer.
For a full list of courses available and how to apply click [Here]
Our local colleges are West Herts College and Oaklands College. To find out more please see the link below:
West Herts College - https://www.westherts.ac.uk/
West Herts College Presentation slides from 12th October 2023 click [Here].
Oaklands College - https://www.oaklands.ac.uk/
To find out more about Apprenticeships and to register please check out the National Careers Service website - Here
For an appointment with Miss Patel in school click here: [Here]
National Careers Services also offers advice and guidance online or on telephone. Please click the link to find out more: [Here]
Updated 02/11/2023