{"id":16042,"date":"2017-01-25T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/?p=16042"},"modified":"2017-01-25T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T16:29:11","slug":"sds-help-with-subject-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2017\/01\/25\/sds-help-with-subject-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"SDS:  Help with subject choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The subjects your child chooses at school can have an impact on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2016\/11\/SDS-In-School-Infographics-AW2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15689 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2016\/11\/SDS-In-School-Infographics-AW2-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"sds-in-school-infographics-aw2\" width=\"254\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>what they can study at college or university and what jobs they can go for in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Skills Development Scotland careers advisers are available in schools for one-to-one sessions with pupils making early subject choices. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Building career management skills, these sessions aim to prepare young people to make confident, informed subject choices. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The careers adviser will support the young person to explore the impact of choices, understand what or who is influencing them and discuss the support offered by My World of Work\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myworldofwork.co.uk\/my-career-options\/choosing-my-subjects\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">subject choices tool<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Parents and teachers can get involved in this discussion or at another time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myworldofwork.co.uk\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">My World of Work<\/span><\/u><\/a> is packed with tools, information and resources to help young people with answering key questions and putting together a shortlist of subjects they can discuss with their parents, carers, teachers and careers adviser. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">There\u2019s also information for parents and carers on supporting their child at subject choice time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk\/what-we-do\/our-products\/career-information-advice-and-guidance\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">SDS careers services in schools<\/span><\/u><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myworldofwork.co.uk\/my-career-options\/choosing-my-subjects\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">myworldofwork.co.uk<\/span><\/u><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Foundation Apprenticeships<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Foundation Apprenticeships allow young people to get a head start in their career by knowledge and skills that are applied in the workplace \u2013 all before they\u2019ve left school.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Sitting a Foundation Apprenticeship takes two years, usually starting in fifth year and is studied alongside National 5s and Highers. The difference is spending time out of school at college and with a top employer, so pupils get real, hands-on experience of the world of work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">It\u2019s a chance to gain an industry-recognised qualifications (set at SQCF level 6) that opens up options for young people when they leave school.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Foundation Apprenticeships in ten subjects \u2013 including software development, healthcare, financial services and engineering \u2013 are available to pupils going into S5.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apprenticeships.scot\/become-an-apprentice\/foundation-apprenticeships\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Find out more<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The subjects your child chooses at school can have an impact on what they can study at college or university and what jobs they can go for in the future. Skills Development Scotland careers advisers are available in schools for one-to-one sessions with pupils making early subject choices. Building career management skills, these sessions aim to prepare young people to make confident, informed subject choices. The careers adviser will support<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2017\/01\/25\/sds-help-with-subject-choices\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[193,54,94,186,144,52,194],"class_list":["post-16042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-career-advice","tag-dyw","tag-employability-skills","tag-foundation-apprenticeships","tag-sds","tag-skills-for-learning-life-and-work","tag-subject-choices"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}