Learning for Life & Work
Staff
Mr G Bingham (Co-ordinator of LLW, with particular responsibility for Citizenship)
Mrs L Dickson (Head of Careers and overseeing Employability)
Mrs A Lennox (Teacher i/c Personal Development)
Mrs L Beacom
Mrs G Buchanan
Mr P Crozier
Mrs S McColgan
Mrs A Kenning
LLW incorporates the provision of lessons in the areas of:
Personal development, by way of our PD programme.
Home Economics, by way of our HE department.
Employability, primarily by way of discrete LLW/Careers classes.
Citizenship, primarily by way of discrete LLW classes.
Year
Personal Development
Home Economics
Employability
Citizenship
8
In PSE period on Tuesday mornings
Double period of HE
One Single period for 20 weeks
One single period for 20 weeks
9
In PSE period on Tuesday mornings
Double period of HE
One Single period for 20 weeks
One single period for 20 weeks
10
In PSE period on Tuesday mornings
Double period of HE
During the Careers module of PSE
Collapsed Timetable events in June
11
In PSE period on Tuesday mornings
HE no longer compulsory for LLW
One single period for 20 weeks
One single period for 20 weeks
12
In PSE period on Tuesday mornings
HE no longer compulsory for LLW
In discrete Careers period
Possibly in a module in the careers period
Employability Modules:
Year 8
Skills, Qualities and Values, Communication, Teamwork, Setting up in Business, Getting to know our own Business community, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary
Year 9
The Work Generator, 21st Century Entrepreneurship, First Steps
Year 10
Careers advice for GCSE options
Year 11
What are my options?, The Right Move, What Employers want.
Year 12
My Action Plan, Careers Booklet work
Local and Global Citizenship Modules:
Year 8
Diversity and Inclusion, Human Rights and Social Responsibility
Year 9
Equality and Social Justice
Year 10
Democracy and Active Participation (by way of cross-departments events incorporating History, Politics, Maths and ICT)
Year 11
A closer look at Democracy and Justice.
We have taken part in the past in joint events with Loreto Grammar School Omagh.
We do not presently offer GCSE LLW at Omagh Academy.