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Claire Tuckwell is the Acting Careers Lead for SBS. She can be contacted via: ctuckwell@ridgewayeducation.com

Claire is also our Careers Adviser. Claire provides impartial careers information, advice and guidance. She works predominantly with Year 11s helping them secure positive destinations for after their GCSEs, however any pupil or parent is welcome to contact Claire to ask any Careers related question and/or to arrange a Careers Advice Session. Claire has an office in the Maths block opposite M1 and is in school on Tuesdays and Fridays.

The RET also employs a Work Experience Coordinator, Elianne Edgington to support those programmes that run in Years 9 and 10.  Elianne can be contacted via: eedgington@ridgewayeducation.com. Please visit the Work Experience page here.

Careers Notices are emailed out fortnightly to all parents and students, promoting the latest careers events and opportunities, including webinars, podcasts, open days and work experience opportunities in a wide range of sectors. These can be accessed within the Careers Notices page. Careers Notices

The SBS Careers Provision focuses on fulfilling the following Learning Outcomes: 

• Pupils have ambitious career goals and the skills, knowledge and insight to achieve them

• Pupils gain a broad knowledge and awareness of a wide range of careers and how their school subjects are relevant to them

• Pupils feel informed and secure, making decisions on the next steps in their careers journey including transition points 

• Creating positive attitudes towards their careers journey including transition points 

• Developing pupils’ key employability skills: Communication, problem solving, time management, teamwork, leadership and organisation

Pupils can expect to participate in and experience a wide range of enriching and informative careers related experiences during their time at SBS.  Those experiences are summed up in our Careers Journey infographic: 

Careers Notices