Impact Statement

Assessing Impact

The Archbishop’s School will assess the impact of its careers programme on students through the following activities:

• Conduct a Compass+ evaluation of the school’s progress towards the 8 Gatsby Benchmarks. This will be completed three times a year and include input from the Careers Lead, our Enterprise Co-ordinator (from the Careers and Enterprise Company) and our careers link Governor.
• Analysing destinations data in line with activities that students have taken part in while at school. 
• DFE school’s performance figures are published in Term 2  The Archbishop's School - Compare school and college performance data in England - GOV.UK
• In Term 2, students will complete an annual student survey (the Future Skills Questionnaire) to help us to identify and plan around gaps in their knowledge and confidence around careers education and the options available to them.
• Student evaluations and feedback will be sought after key events.
• Staff feedback will be conducted after key events to help with future planning.
• The views of parents/carers will be surveyed after key events e.g. The Careers Fair, Careers Information Evenings, Work Shadowing Day, Year 12 Work Experience and so forth.
• Employer and staff feedback will be surveyed after key employer encounters where appropriate.

Key Findings from our destination data for our 2024 leavers

Please note – this data is published by the Department for Education with a two-year lag so that these are sustained destinations. That means that these are placements that students stayed in successfully for at least 6 months after starting.