CareersFest @ Icknield Community College

Now running for its fifth year, and growing year on year, we invite you to help our students understand about the broad selection of opportunities that lie ahead of them.  Engaging them from a young age, and not just in Year 11, helps our students to understand and start working towards what they may need when making their GCSE choices, or to secure either a College/Sixth Form place, guide them towards a University Course and help them to understand more about the employment sector, including the boundless Apprenticeship opportunities, not just on their doorstep, but in a global market.

I personally have worked very hard to initially create and now develop our CareersFest.  Icknield Community College is a relatively small secondary school which, as many of you will know, does not host a Sixth Form, meaning all of our Y11 students need to find themselves an onward destination post their GCSE’s.  Some of our students know exactly what they would like to do, some as far as which University they would like to attend, others find the prospect of leaving school and finding a new destination to either study or work very daunting.  The purpose of hosting this event is to give both students and parents the opportunity to meet and chat with local Sixth Form Schools, Colleges, Universities, National and local employers who offer Apprenticeship and Career opportunities. 

This event has become key to our students and we invite you to share with them your opportunities, to their new beginnings.  Whilst we are a Watlington based school, we take students from a very diverse local geographical, cross border area, including Stokenchurch, Thame, Chinnor, Stone, Chalgrove, RAF Benson and many other surrounding villages. 

We will host this event during the school day and make it compulsory for all of our students to attend, before opening it to our parents, who are invited to join their children and for them to be able to hear for themselves what’s available locally and further afield. 

We very much hope you will be able to join us, if you would like to book a stand please contact Helen Richardson, helen.richardson@icknield.oxon.sch.uk.