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Skills Scotland Glasgow

S4 pupils recently attended the Skills Scotland Glasgow event at the SECC in Glasgow to get some information about future careers and opportunities. There were a number of stands and seminars offering careers advice and information on jobs, volunteer opportunities, careers with the armed services, traineeships, apprenticeship schemes and many other opportunities.

Pupils also had the chance to try many activities, including building a wall, plumbing a tap and wiring a light bulb/doorbell; using an augmented reality demonstration to look for technical data on cars and identifying the engine and transmission components; working with glass and metal at the City of Glasgow College arts and crafts stand; designing fashion accessories using upcycled materials; driving an articulated dump truck, controlling a tower crane and steering a truck and trailer using Go Construct’s plant and construction simulator; using a raspberry pi selfie roulette app; and trying The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow’s virtual reality laparoscopy simulator as used by trainees surgeons.

More career information  is available on our post school destination pages.

Careers Event 2017

Calderhead High School held a Careers event at school on Wednesday, 25 January 2017. In the morning the ‘Friends of Calderhead’ (former pupils, parents and relatives) gave  a short 20 minute presentation detailing their own personal experience of school, the grades that they attained and the journey they had taken leading them to their current role.  Our S3 pupils then had the opportunity to hear insightful, inspiring, and honest representations of working in an industry that they had expressed interest in.   Thanks go to all the ‘friends of Calderhead’: Gordon Muir, Ross Mitchell, Kim Milroy, Lauren Brown, Gillian Tannahill, Steven Smith, Billy Morley, Steven Lake, Tom Stewart and Emma Reid for their input at the event. S1 and S2 pupils took part in a teacher pathway quiz.

In the afternoon, twenty one providers attended a more traditional careers fayre, which was hosted in the assembly hall.

The final session of the day involved S5/6 pupils, parents of pupils  and members of the community who were able to access all the support and services the providers could offer.

Calderhead High School would like to thank all those who attended and supported the event.

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Positive Destinations and Developing the Young Workforce

50 S4 pupils attended the Skills Scotland Event at the SECC on Wednesday, 26 October 2016. All the pupils enjoyed the visit and came away with some useful information to help with their decision making for the future.

Skills Scotland events bring young people face-to-face with employers, training providers, further education colleges, universities, professional bodies and sector specific organisations to help young people to make better transitions and identify effective career pathways that will help them to move into sustainable employment.

UCAS Information Session – 5th September

Every year the school runs a UCAS class which assists our S6 students in applying to University. While the students are given time during the school day we encourage them to complete the application in their own time and for parents to be involved in this process.

A brief information session for parents and carers will be held in the school on Monday, 5th September 2016 at 6pm to go through the process and to allow you to discuss concerns or issues you may have.

Useful links:

UCAS

 

https://www.ucas.com/ucas/undergraduate/getting-started/ucas-undergraduate-parents-and-guardians


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http://www.gla.ac.uk/about/wideningparticipation/supportingaccesstogeneralsubjects/top-up/

Pupil Success – Caleb

Congratulations to S5 pupil, Caleb Hariri, who has gained a Nuffield Research Placement at the University of Glasgow this summer. He will be part of a team investigating how stem cells convert to fat cells. This is a leading edge research project on the control of Diabetes.

Prior to this he will taking part for a week in the REACH Medical programme for aspiring medical doctors, also at University of Glasgow.