Careers
Careers Education at Goffs-Churchgate Academy
At Goffs-Churchgate Academy, our Careers Education is designed to empower students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to navigate their future careers. We aim to inspire students by providing guidance on a wide range of career paths, helping them make informed decisions about their education, training, and employment opportunities.
Our programme encourages students to explore their strengths, interests, and aspirations while developing key employability skills such as communication, problem-solving, and adaptability. We offer personalised support, ensuring every student is prepared for their next steps, whether it's higher education, apprenticeships, or entering the workforce.
Through workshops, mentoring, and partnerships with local businesses, we ensure that students leave school equipped for success in an ever-changing world.
Our Careers Education lead is Mrs Renew
Careers Timetable 2025/2026
Gatsby Benchmarks
Every young person needs high-quality career guidance to make informed decisions about their future. Good career guidance is a necessity for social mobility: those young people without significant social capital or home support to draw upon have the most to gain from high-quality career guidance.
What are the eight benchmarks?
The eight benchmarks are a framework for good career guidance developed to support secondary schools and colleges in providing students with the best possible careers education, information, advice, and guidance.
They were established as part of Sir John Holman's research into what pragmatic actions could improve career guidance in England. Based on international best practice, they set out what a world-class career guidance system looks like. The Benchmarks are part of the careers strategy (launched December 2017) and statutory guidance for secondary schools and colleges since 2018.
Further information and useful links
We are signed up to The Careers and Enterprise Company – The Enterprise Adviser Network – programme. This is a free provision managed locally by Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership to support us to achieve all 8 Gatsby Benchmarks.
Further information about The Careers and Enterprise Company can be found here:
https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/
Further information about The Gatsby Benchmarks can be found here:
http://www.gatsby.org.uk/education/focus-areas/good-career-guidance
Hertfordshire Skills Framework
https://www.hopinto.co.uk/explore-careers/resources/hertfordshire-skills-framework/
This is the culmination of a huge research piece carried out by The University of Hertfordshire to identify the predominant skills and qualities that a large range of Hertfordshire employers have stated are most important for young people to possess and demonstrate in the workplace; it is therefore vital information for students, teachers and parents to be aware of. These skills are going to be embedded through throughout the school both within the curriculum and through wider awareness within work on CVs and in assemblies.
Labour Market Information
Broxbourne Labour Market Information
Hertfordshire Labour Market Information
Employer Engagement
We recognise the importance in working with local employers in order to support our Careers Education and IAG provision we are very keen to establish links with employers who will be able to open our students’ eyes to the world of work.
If you would like to support any of the above events or feel you may be offer support in a different way then do please contact our Careers Lead. Suzanna Renew s.renew@goffschurchgate.herts.sch.uk
Sixth Form - Careers
As part of the Generations MAT we work closely with Goffs-Academy Sixth Form.
You can find out about Careers relating directly to the Sixth Form under the Sixth Form section of their website: https://www.goffs.herts.sch.uk/358/careers-university
