Welcome to the Sixth Form Careers Page
31/01/2025
Nest Steps To Future Success Careers Fayre
We were incredibly proud to host a fantastic Careers Event at QEH, welcoming 15 and 16-year-old students from several local secondary schools. The event provided a valuable opportunity for young people to explore a wide range of career pathways, speak directly with industry professionals, and gain insight into their future options.
The feedback from presenters and stallholders was overwhelmingly positive, with many commenting on the enthusiasm and engagement of the students. Staff and pupils alike found the event both inspiring and informative, with many students leaving with a clearer vision of their next steps in education, apprenticeships, or employment.
Events like these play a crucial role in shaping the future career choices of young people, helping them make informed decisions about their aspirations and opportunities. We are committed to continuing to provide these invaluable experiences to support our students in achieving their full potential.
Mr Dave Williams
Headteacher
Careers Convention Success (21/01/2025)
"It was a pleasure to attend the Careers convention at QE High School. The hundreds of pupils who attended were given the valuable opportunity of meeting a wide and diverse range of representatives from various businesses and charities. I am sure that this exceptional event will provide the children with a number of ideas to inspire and help them with potential vocational aspirations. On behalf of myself and my wife I would like to express my thanks to the Headteacher Mr. David Williams and the organiser Mrs. Lydia Rhys, together with other school staff, for the invitation and warm welcome." - Emlyn and Tina Schiavone, Mayor and Mayoress of Carmarthen Town and Chair of the Education, Young People and Welsh Language Committee with Carmarthenshire County Council.
NEXT STEP TO FUTURE SUCCESS!
Careers School Valued Partner Programme
The Careers School Valued Partner programme allows Careers Wales to recognise employers and schools who work together for the benefit of pupils. Schools are partnered with specific employers to support the school and its pupils. We are currently school-valued partners with the following employers:
- S4C - Yr Egin
- Menter Iaith Gorllewin Sir Gâr
- Hywel Dda University Health Board
Careers Wales
National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) partnership
We’ve recently developed a new partnership with the NDCS Cymru, to enhance our careers support offer to deaf young people. The charity is providing additional training to our advisers, to further develop their understanding of deaf awareness and accessibility, and their ability to identify the key careers information that affects deaf young people. Read more on our news page.
Tailored Work Experience (TWE)
As lockdown measures ease in the coming months, and more employers across key sectors start to reopen, we hope to be able to facilitate a greater number of TWE placements as part of the ESF funded regional projects, including TRAC, Cynydd and I2A. Please discuss any potential referrals with your careers adviser who will be happy to provide an update.
Career Check and Hwb
Following the successful launch of the Careers Wales website last year we have reviewed how school users were registered, how they logged into the old Careers Wales website and how their accounts were managed.
As part of this review, we have been in discussion with Welsh Government to enable pupils to log into certain applications on the Careers Wales website using their Hwb log-in details. The first application that this new service will be available for is our new version of Career Check - the survey is facilitated by the school-based careers adviser and is for pupils in Year 10/11 to enable the adviser to assess their level of career planning and helps us to diagnose the level of guidance that young person requires.
We will be working with the Hwb team to look at future collaborations on Careers Wales applications. Your careers adviser will be in touch with you to discuss how best to support pupils to complete this survey this year. It will still be possible for pupils to complete Career Check without accessing the survey through the website. If you have any questions on this new service, please contact your school's careers adviser or the Careers Wales helpline and we'll be happy to discuss alternative arrangements.
Choose Your Future events
Between 9 and 11 March we held a series of virtual ‘Choose Your Future’ events, targeted at pupils in year 9 and above, each focussing on the areas of north Wales, South Wales and west Wales.
The events provided an opportunity for young people in these regions to find out more about the world of work and learn more about opportunities within priority sectors and industries for those areas.
Local employers also attended the event, offering talks from industry experts, providing information about specific roles and opportunities, as well as answering live questions, and making it a fantastic opportunity to equip young people with the knowledge to make important upcoming decisions about their futures.
Over 4,600 young people attended across the 40+ sessions available, with the west Wales sessions receiving the most attendance. The most popular industry sessions across the series included construction, health and social care, food and land-based, and creative industries.
Tata Steel Apprenticeship Presentation (01/03/2020)
Tata Steel currently has a number of Apprenticeship (suitable for GCSE students & above) & Higher Apprenticeship (suitable for A-Level students) opportunities on offer, across a variety of job roles. Here’s a link to a recording of a live presentation.
