Product Information
Launchpad is a brand new program for Key Stage 3 which is designed to introduce students to their future options, including the Diploma, and help them plan and make choices about their education and career path. A personalised Functional skills and PLTS profiling quiz identifies personal skills and compares them to the skills required to study GCSE and Diploma subjects at Key Stage 4. Students can discover more about the subject options available to them and identify how each subject supports career choice. Launchpad introduces over 400 careers, with essential information on each career plus engaging case studies, photographs and videos illustrating real-life work activities.
Features
- Skills profiling quiz provides results after just 20 questions
- Identifies Functional skill strengths and areas for improvement
- PLTS (Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills) diagnostic tool
- Information on all current Diploma subjects plus over 30 GCSE subjects
- Built in controls allow schools to just show options available locally
- Illustrates the skills needed to study subjects at Key Stage 4
- Highlights routes from subjects into careers
- Information on around 450 careers
- Over 200 videos showing real-life workplaces
- Over 2,800 photographs of people in the workplace
- Case studies include interviews with people about their jobs
- Action plan records results and achievements and encourages goal setting
Suitable for:
- Young people aged 11-13 years
- Years 7-9
- Supporting subject choice
- Pre-Diploma IAG
- Key Stage 3 CEG
- Schools and PRUs
- Local authorities
- Diploma Consortia
Benefits
Local Authorities
- Supports the delivery of the Every Child Matters Framework by raising aspirations and demonstrating the outcome of positive achievement for all young people.
Diploma Consortia
- Provides impartial information, advice and guidance for all current Diploma subjects, enabling young people to research Diploma opportunities in their local area.
- Illustrates progression routes from Diploma subjects into careers, positively reinforcing how the Diploma supports education and future employment opportunities.
Schools
- Provides a complete resource for the effective delivery of Key Stage 3 Careers Education and Guidance.
- Supports elements of the PSHE and Citizenship Curricula.
- Easily integrated into existing methods of delivery.
Young People
- Develops awareness of future options and provokes exploration of the world of work.
- Helps students make the right personal choices and forms a foundation of knowledge for decision making for future direction in education, training and employment.
- Enables young people to gain support from parents/carers with access available anywhere with Internet access.