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Student careers support →Wilmslow High School · Careers education
Make informed choices. Find your next step.
Explore your strengths, discover different pathways and get the guidance you need to plan for life beyond Wilmslow High School. Your goals can change; we’ll help you keep learning about what’s possible.
A whole-school commitment
Careers learning, from Year 7 to Year 13
Careers education at Wilmslow is part of a whole education. Through Personal Development lessons, subject learning, encounters with employers and providers, work experience and individual guidance, students build the knowledge and confidence to make thoughtful choices.
We support students to consider academic, technical and vocational routes impartially, and to understand that there is more than one way to reach a fulfilling future.
“To provide an ambitious careers programme that prepares and supports all of our students for the world of work, enabling all of them to achieve aspirational career outcomes and have the confidence to flourish in an ever-changing careers landscape.”Our careers vision
Find the right information
How can we help?
Choose the information that best matches what you need today. Students, families, staff and partners each have a dedicated starting point.
Support a conversation
Find trusted resources to help you talk with your child about pathways and future choices.
Parent and carer resources →Bring careers into learning
See how tutors and subject teachers contribute to students’ careers learning.
Staff guidance →Plan your next move
Explore pathways and choices
Use these pages to understand the programme, compare routes and make decisions at important transition points.
Careers programme
See the Personal Development careers outline for 2026–27 and how learning develops across year groups.
View the programme →Key Stage 4 choices
Find the school’s course-choice information for students and parents or carers.
Explore KS4 choices →Student destinations
See where students progressed after Year 11 and Year 13, with the range of routes in view.
View destinations →Pathway 01University and higher education
Pathway 02College and technical study
Pathway 03Apprenticeships and training
Pathway 04Employment and other routes
A framework for quality
Careers learning with purpose
Our programme is built around the Gatsby Benchmarks and gives students opportunities to learn about themselves, the world of work and the choices ahead.
01A stable careers programme
02Learning from careers and labour-market information
03Addressing the needs of each student
04Linking curriculum learning to careers
05Encounters with employers and employees
06Experiences of workplaces
07Encounters with further and higher education
08Personal guidance
Talk to the Careers Team
Careers Lead: Mrs Helen Cook · Independent guidance is available to students in Years 7–13.