Careers Fairs

The Careers Fair celebrates a wide range of traditional and non-traditional career pathways. Students are able to have meaningful interactions with employers as well as take part in a range of workshops and talks.

Annual Careers Week

A week of career-focused activities to ensure students get used to thinking about their future. Activities include competitions, skills workshops, quizzes and Alumnae interviews.

Unifrog Platform

Students sign up to Unifrog in Year 7 and use the tool to help them track their career interests throughout their time at Putney. They use the site to log their activities and competencies assisting them with University applications and CVs.

Career Guidance Meetings 

Students are able to book 1:1 guidance meetings from Year 10 upwards.

Careers Team Channel

From Year 10 upwards, students have access to the Careers Team where work experience opportunities and career events are shared.

From the very start of a student’s time at Putney High School they are introduced to the careers programme; exploring possibilities and learning about self awareness. They have a series of PSHE talks about careers and self reflection, hear from parent speakers, and are introduced the the Unifrog careers platform available for their use throughout life at Putney.

In Year 8, students revisit the Unifrog platform, have lessons and talks about careers for the future and the role of women in the workplace and take part in Learn to Earn workshops.

Learn to Earn motivates students by encouraging them to consider financial plans for the future, set goals and think about their future study options.

Year 9 students update their Unifrog profile and utilise the site to help with their GCSE choices. Students are encouraged to ask the questions; How do we make decisions? and What impact can decisions made now have on our future? They are introduced to the idea of transferrable skills in the workplace.

Students set up their Morrisby account and begin shaping thoughts about future career and how GCSE options feed into this.

The GCSE Options Evening acts as a further information source and supports students with their choices.

Careers lessons focus on skills required for entrepreneurship and enterprise and how to foster an entrepreneurial mindset with students partaking in the Tenner Challenge.

The Tenner Challenge is a free national challenge for students aged 11-18. Over the course of four weeks, students will use £10 pledges to get their student business ideas off the ground. It’s an interactive programme that helps students to develop key employability skills including creativity, resilience, and problem solving.

There are careers ‘speed networking‘ events for students to interact with with speakers from a range of backgrounds and industries and so beginning their networking journey.

In Year 11, the focus turns to the world of work, preparing students for work experience and what to expect in the work place and how to conduct themselves.

Students complete Morrisby careers profiling and have following 1:1 appointments with career advisors, complete work experience and take part in workshops for CV and cover letter writing.

The A level options evening provides career support for Year 11 students and the ‘speed networking’ events provide further exposure to people from a range of careers.

Interview skills and applications to higher education facilities are the focus of careers in Year 12. Students take part in mock interviews and learn the importance of soft skills.

In Year 13 the focus for careers is on transition skills. Students take part in workshops which focus on how to secure internships and work experience and the importance of career tools such as LinkedIn.