Update 05.06.2020

5th June 2020

Dear Parents and Carers

Another week of lockdown done – and at least it hasn’t been so enticing to leave the computer and head outside…

Year 10:   World of Work

Please see the attached letter from Mr Thomas, Head of Careers and Work Experience,  giving details of an excellent virtual Careers and Work Experience event for your children,  running alongside their remote learning next week.

An update from Miss Curtis, Head of PE:

The Virtual interform competition is a fabulous success. Thank you to all the parents, carers and students who have been getting involved. There is still the weekend to go in order for you to submit your results and healthy selfies. You have until Sunday 7pm!

Many of the top positions are incredibly close with only one or two entries splitting the 1^st place and 2^nd place forms. Your entry could make all the difference!

Do keep an eye out on our Twitter page @CamVC_PE as we have several very exciting projects coming up, including our Virtual Sports Awards Evening as well as our first virtual PE fixture. More information will be following soon.

Current Interform Standings:

Year 7

1^st place: 7A – 5250 points

2^nd place: 7C – 5000 points (catching up with 7A)

3^rd place: 7E – 3800 points

Year 8

1^st place: 8C – 3700 points (first time in 1^st place!)

2^nd place: 8R – 3500 points

3^rd place: 8U – 2700 points

Year 9

1^st place: 9R – 3200 points (creating an excellent lead – can they be beaten?)

2^nd place: 9U – 2200 points

3^rd place: 9M – 1350 points

KS4

1^st place: 10A – 1600 points (first time in 1^st place!)

2^nd place: 10M – 1100 points

3^rd place: 10B – 1050 points

If you have a minute, do take a look at the Friday ShoutOuts on FaceBook.  There is some exceptional work there from this week’s home-learning, including some great musical performances:  https://www.facebook.com/CambourneVC/

I hope you all enjoy the weekend and look after yourselves,

Claire Coates

Principal

 

Dear Parents and Carers

My Week of Work: 8 – 12 June 2020

As you are already aware, we disappointingly had to cancel July’s work experience placements because of the COVID-19 situation.  We are now fortunately in a position to access an on-line package:  “My Week of Work”.  This is a series of talks and lessons which will provide pupils with some of the insights into the world of work that come with a work experience placement.

The Careers Enterprise Company, Oak National Academy and Learn Live have worked in partnership to create a whole week’s worth of content aimed at preparing young people for the world of work. They will hear from employers, learn about the businesses and complete virtual work tasks. The content has been developed in partnership with employers, school leaders and careers education experts.  

A full week of activities is on offer, however, Year 10 pupils will need to keep up with their usual curriculum and meet their usual subject deadlines. Year 10 students are therefore expected to prioritise the three sessions that most interest them from ‘My Week at Work’ and either watch these live, adapting their daily lessons around them, or use the on-demand feature after completing their school work.  We will identify suitable follow-up work in our timetabled Careers remote learning sessions.

Students should go to https://learnliveuk.com/my-week-of-work/ and sign up for approximately three sessions over the week.  These live sessions with employers and labour market experts also have a live chat facility.  Most of the sessions will be available via video on demand afterwards:  https://learnliveuk.com/videos-index/?stream_type=on-demand . Questions can be asked later from the on-demand videos but replies will be much less immediate.  Reassuringly, Learn Live has put together very robust safeguarding and data protection procedures to protect the youngsters taking part and details are available on their website https://learnliveuk.com/safeguarding-policy/.  Parents are able to sit in and watch too, if they wish. 

Timetable for the live sessions with employers:

Tuesday, 9^th June Health & Social Care: 10am-12: Royal Stoke University Hospital; NHS Somerset; Princes Trust; Sanctuary Care; Dorset NHS & Dorset CCG; Housing21

Health and Wellbeing 12-1pm Network Rail; Meditation;  Mental Health Awareness

Creative & Digital 1-3pm: DRP Group; De le Warr Pavillion; BBC; Into Games; DriveWorks;  Burberry

Wednesday, 10^th June Engineering / Manufacturing 10-12: Environment Agency; BAE Systems; RAF; RAL Space; Toyota; AirBus

Bonus Slot 12-1: Transform; HomeServe; Crown Prosecution Service

Construction 1-3pm: Balfour Beatty; Morgan Sindall; Peel L&P  Support; Kier; Mace; HPC

Thursday, 11^th June:  10-12 Energy & Renewables

12-1pm  Bonus Slot  TBC

1-3pm Bonus Slot  TBC

Friday, 12^th June: 10-1 TBC

1-3pm – Your next steps

Timetable for careers lessons with the Oak Academy: pupils should access these at https://www.thenational.academy/  from Monday 8^th June if they are interested.   No registration or sign-up is necessary.  However, as previously stated, their curriculum work for CamVC should take priority. 

If you have any further questions or feedback, please contact tthomas@cambournevc.org .

Thank you for your continued support of your child’s careers education.

Timothy Thomas

Head of French, German, Careers, Post16 and Work Experience

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