The Careers Programme at KSHS was viewed very positively by Ofsted in our recent report, which we are very proud of:

“Pupils and students in the sixth form benefit from high-quality advice about future education and career choices. Subject curriculums connect learning closely to career possibilities. Assemblies and tutor-time activities promote aspiration and keep pupils well informed”.

We also achieve 100% in 7 of the 8 ‘Gatsby Benchmarks’ by which Careers in schools is judged.

However, we are always keen to look for new ways to improve our existing offer, and engage students in thinking about a wide range of future career opportunities. We already run a Year 9 ‘World of Work Day’ where students have the opportunity to hear from a range of speakers in different jobs, learning about the skills and qualifications they need to get into this field and what the job is really like, as well as a Year 10 ‘Workplace Experience Day’, where a range of employers come into school to run projects similar to those that would operate in the workplace. Both events are very popular with students.

In order to offer more opportunities for students to engage with people in different careers we would like to create a database of both parents and alumni that we can draw on. If you would be willing to come into school to help out, we would be grateful if you could complete the questionnaire in the link, even if you have done this before and not been called upon yet, we would appreciate your indication of availability this year. We have a number of events in mind, such as 10-minute assemblies and longer presentations to large groups over a half day, as well as smaller group informal Q&A sessions or perhaps doing a mock interview or mentoring session. If you have any ideas of things you could offer that might be of interest, then we would love to hear from you. Please do share the link with any former students who have left, as our current students love to see what older students are now doing.

https://forms.office.com/e/DPrh0LXKJK

Thank you in anticipation of your support.

Miss S Chant

Careers Lead

U14 Football Team

Well done to the U14 Football team who took on Louth Academy in the final days of last term, in their bid to continue further in the Lincolnshire County Schools Cup competition. The team started slowly, putting together some good passages of play but couldn’t finish in the final third. Following their half time team talk, the players focused on what was most important: scoring goals. Once they scored the first, their confidence grew, and 8 goals followed before the full-time whistle with the final score 9-2. They now look forward to the next round against the winners of the KGGS vs St George’s game.

In other age groups, Year 7 will be playing against KGGS and U16 will play the winners of the Haven High vs Spalding High game in their next rounds.

Lincolnshire County Cross Country took place last weekend at a very frosty Burghley House. Runners from schools all over Lincolnshire came together to compete in this annual event. We had representation in all Key Stage 3 & 4 categories and we were very appreciative of the time they gave up over the weekend to take part. Although no one qualified for the Anglian rounds this year, many of our runners finished inside the top 30; no easy task when the field is vast and the ground frozen.

Staff are invited to nominate students who have demonstrated a Growth Mindset in the past few weeks. This might have been in lessons, in clubs, tutor time or simply around school. Please note we already award bi-annual subject badges and merits for good academic work, effort and improvement. These Growth Mindset nominations recognise those who show resilience (academic or otherwise); who aren’t afraid to get things wrong and learn from it; those who have a go, take themselves out of their comfort zone or show that even if a task is tough, they will persevere.