At Waverley School we aim to develop confident, well-prepared individuals who know what they want from their future and how to achieve it.

1. Develop students knowledge of career pathways.

2. Develop student’s employability skills.

Waverley School provides a comprehensive careers programme to support our students to make informed options and career choices and to achieve their potential.

The Careers Lead is Mr L. Webster, for across the trust. A whole Trust approach is undertaken across all Key Stages to meet statutory requirements. 

Email contact details are:

• Mr. L Webster: 

  Careers@waverley.bham.sch.uk
  WSC-Careers@waverleystudiocollege.co.uk

These web pages aim to support students to make informed decisions about their future choices and to help parents/carers to assist their child with their options. They can also be used by school staff to support students.

The following 9 sections for students focus on key careers matters. Clicking on a section will take you key topics related to that section.

Additionally, the following sections provide details of student destinations, the school’s careers policy/programme and the school’s provider access policy.

3 further sections are aimed at parents/carers, employers and there is also a section to support teachers to make links between subjects they teach and careers.

Every year Waverley School and Waverley Studio College partner with the ‘Learn to Work’ Team to deliver a work experience programme for our Year 10 and Year 12 pupils.  

Learn to Work have a proven track record in the city and have been offering services to 20-30 Birmingham Schools for the last twenty years, as well as to Joseph Chamberlain College, where they are based.

The Team organises approximately 4000 Year 9-13 pupils into work experience placements each year, working with approximately 600 employers, organisations and agencies throughout the city.

Here is a description of the services that Learn to Work provide to Waverley:

• The ‘set up’ assembly outlining the work experience process, deadlines, etc.
• All necessary parental and employer liaison throughout
• Administration and supervision of the ‘Own Placement’ process
• Administration and supervision of the ‘Placement Choices’ process
• A spreadsheet of employer placements and allocation of pupils to placements
• Provision of materials for pastoral/PSHE work experience and debrief inputs
• Final Health and Safety & briefing assembly including all related paperwork
• Various brief ‘reminder’ inputs at assemblies during the work experience process
• Awards assembly including production of pupil certificates
• Health and Safety risk assessments of participating employers
• Organisation and delivery of Practice Interview Day, including preparation assembly and provision of pastoral materials and all related paperwork
• Provision of a list of employers for school to administer work experience staff visits