Year 11 Work Experience: Summer 2010

All Year 11 pupils are encouraged to secure at least one work experience placement after their GCSE examinations. These placements range in length from a couple of days to a fortnight, although the majority last one week. We rely on the contributions of ONLs, parents and other professionals with links to the school to provide this extremely worthwhile opportunity for our students. If you think that you may be able to help us by offering a work experience placement to a Year 11 pupil, please contact Mrs O'Sullivan in the Careers Department (via email: do'sullivan@nlcs.org.uk).

Careers Convention 2011

This is an evening event for which volunteers (some of whom are linked to the school, for example, parents of current or former pupils, and ONLs) are invited in from a wide range of professions to talk on a one-to-one informal basis with NLCS pupils. All students from Yr 9-13 are invited to attend and put their questions to visitors. The last Careers Convention in October 2009 saw roughly 80 professionals alongside 4 key speakers on the areas of Law, Medicine, Journalism and Banking. If you would be willing to help at the event and represent your professional field, please do get in touch. More details to follow in due course.

Year 10 Careers Day: Summer Term 2011 

Year 10 students are off timetable for activities designed to enrich them beyond the curriculum. Students take part in a range of activities exploring the idea of identifying employability skills. During the course of the sessions, students will work with volunteering members of various professions on a series of tasks, culminating in identifying and articulating their own skills. This will then be linked to the idea of CV writing, which the students will be exploring as part of the Year 11 PSHE course. There will also be an opportunity for students to question our volunteers on their professions and career paths.