Discovery Academy Career’s Programme

At Discovery Academy, our Preparing for Adulthood Programme is inspired by our school’s commitment to raise ‘dreamers, believers and achievers’.

We take an asset-based and individualistic approach to preparing our pupils for the world of work.

We take an asset-based and individualistic approach to preparing our pupils for the world of work.

We deliver our Careers Programme through our Preparation for Adulthood and Life Skills offer. Employability skills are taught alongside the development of social knowledge linked to personal health, explicit teaching of independent living skills and, of course, opportunities for community engagement.  Teachers deliver a dynamic and immersive curriculum which is child centred and aspirational.

Click on the circles below to access our Preparation for Adulthood offer:

Our Preparing for Adulthood Lead is Miss K Meyrick who can be contacted on kmeyrick@nexusmat.org

Development of key skills is monitored through all three key stages through the Enhanced Skills Builder.

We adopt the following key principles:

1. Keep it simple
2. Start early, keep going
3. Measure it
4. Focus tightly
5. Keep practising
6. Bring it to life

We invest in and are dedicated to the development of the eight employability skills within the Skills Builder Framework: