Careers – Students – Prenton High

Your Future Starts with Exploring

You do not need to know exactly what job you want to do. Careers learning at Prenton High School helps you discover your strengths, explore possibilities and decide what could be right for you.

What happens in your year?

Year 7 – Discover: Explore your interests, strengths and skills.
Year 8 – Explore: Discover different jobs, workplaces and future pathways.
Year 9 – Connect: Think about how your interests and strengths connect to GCSE choices.
Year 10 – Experience: Develop workplace skills, prepare for work experience and explore post-16 options.
Year 11 – Transition: Compare your options, prepare applications and plan your next steps.

Read our careers programme to find out more.

Explore with Unifrog

Use Unifrog to research careers, explore courses and pathways, and reflect on your interests and skills.

Sign in to Unifrog using your school account. If you need help accessing it, ask your form tutor or the Careers & Enterprise Lead.

Need advice or feeling unsure?

You can ask for support with subject choices, work experience, college, sixth form, apprenticeships or future careers. Speak to your form tutor or Miss Goode, our Careers & Enterprise Lead, who can help you find the right support:

goodec@prentonhighschool.co.uk

If you find careers information difficult to understand or access, tell us so we can discuss how to help.

Help shape careers at Prenton

Our Student Careers Champions share ideas, promote opportunities and gather feedback from other students. Find out about becoming a Careers Champion if you would like to get involved.

Explore your options below

Open the headings below to find careers resources, local colleges, universities, apprenticeships and labour market information.

Useful Links

Local Colleges

Universities

Apprenticeships

Labour Market Information

In School Careers Advisor

During Year 10 and 11 all students receive a 1-2-1 careers interview from our Careers Advisor who is employed by the school through FR Careers, to impartially advise and guide students as they apply for their post-16 destinations.

Each student receives a 50-minute interview, where they will receive advice about suitable courses and possible post-16 destinations. The main focus of the interview is to ensure students have a post-16 destinations in place once they have completed their GCSEs. Our Careers Advisor will look to identify personal qualities and skills, come up with ideas for study and work, explore interests, likes and dislikes and identify barriers to assess future career and education goals.

After the interview students will be given an action plan which will detail the discussion, highlighting their options, next steps and how to carry out further research. Guidance is also given during assemblies and at lunch time drop-in sessions where students are informed about the variety of different post-16 pathways and how to apply for their chosen destination.

Click on the top of the box to enter a job title and see lots of information about the role, from average pay to how many hours people in these roles work per week.

Below you can read an interview with Faye Rafferty on her role as Careers Advisor and the best advice and tips she would offer to students who are planning for their future career paths.