St George's Career Journey
Supporting your child’s career choices.
Knowing where to start to support your child with their career choices can be a bit of a challenge. With changes to qualifications and courses and such a wide range of options it can be difficult knowing where to begin. This page and the other careers pages have been created to help you support your child’s careers journey.
A starting point can be to understand the qualifications on offer and how they progress on form each other. The diagram below takes you from GCSE to postgraduate level.
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What do the 9-1 grades mean?
Since September 2017, the way GCSEs are graded has changed, moving from the alphabetical system of A*-G grades to the numerical 9-1 system.
In the numerical grading system:
- 9 is higher than a current A*
- 8 is between an A* and A.
- 7 is equal to an A
- 6 is equivalent to a high B
- 5 is between a B and C
- 4 is equal to a grade C
- 3 is in between a D and E
- 2 is between an E and F
- 1 is a G
- U refers to an ungraded paper
This is The Parent Perspective, a podcast created to help parents and carers support their children in making more informed career decisions with greater confidence, knowledge and understanding.
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Start is a comprehensive careers programme which our pupils can register on. It can be used to research careers, record their careers activity and work through a range of sessions to help them find out what careers may suit their skills and preferences. Parents and carers can also register for a free account. The site has developed a range of bespoke content which focuses on the Blackpool Careers Journey and has videos from Blackpool employers.