Any day is a good day to hold a career event, but busy educators can make use of our awareness days calendar to frame the opportunities for careers activities and inspire young people as they transition into the next phase of their education or career. It is so quick and easy to set up events on our platform.
Whilst you are planning for the academic year you can use our calendar to plot out key dates to harness young people’s excitement for real world events. With several key awareness dates such as World Space Week and our own Role Model Week, both in October, use our calendar to harness the enthusiasm of our volunteers at the right time
19th Sept - 25th Sept
Book a Sustainability Encounter to inform young people about the many new types of careers solving the world’s problems and help them understand how they can move along this pathway.
13th Sept - 19th Sept
Book a Maths4Girls or Sector Awareness encounter to help young people understand coding and what maths knowledge these coders use in their daily lives.
24th Sept
With so many volunteers on our platform involved in environment, STEAM and sustainability, organising a Sustainability Encounter will help young people feel included in the future world of work and how they can use their skills to bring about change.
October
Invite one of our diverse role models during Role Model week here at F4S, help young people have relatable role models in which to inspire them through a Mentoring Event or Skills Development Encounter
10th to the 14th Oct
Register here to be kept up to date and receive your free Role Model Week pack'
>> https://www.founders4schools.org.uk/about/role-model-week/role-model-week-registration-form/
4th to 10th Oct
With various speakers on our platform from the space sector, book your Routes and Pathways encounter now and inform your young people about the many new careers in the space industry and what route our volunteers took to get into their role.
10th Oct
We have a wealth of women speakers on our platform able to talk about their careers journeys. Why not invite one into a science lesson to inspire young people into STEAM subjects?
10th Oct
Invite speakers to come and talk about their career pathways through a Routes and Pathways encounter and talk about the barriers they faced and personal challenges they overcame.
29th and 30th Oct
Book an encounter so our volunteers can inspire the students in areas of work that protect our native bird species, how we can create a sustainable environment and what jobs they can take to do this.
7th to 12th Nov
Book a Sustainability Encounter to inform young people about the many new types of careers solving the world’s problems and help them understand how they can move along this pathway.
13th Nov
With so many apprenticeship opportunities in the Armed Forces, invite speakers to an Apprenticeship Event to showcase the opportunities across all areas in this sector.
3rd Dec
Celebrate entrepreneurial spirit by inviting some of our role models to talk about their career journeys, how they built their own businesses and see them inspire your young people. Perhaps there is a project they can judge through one of our Challenge or Competition encounters
4th Jan
Celebrate a historical figure and invite one of our many STEAM volunteers or book a Maths4Girls encounter.
RSPB Big Birdwatch
27th to 29th Jan
Get involved in the Big Birdwatch as a school, perhaps one of our volunteers can inspire the students further in their projects and link in careers to this really important area of work.
6th to 12th Feb
Inform young people about the apprenticeship pathway and the opportunities available by inviting our volunteers to speak at an Apprenticeship Event
11th Feb
We have a wealth of women speakers on our platform able to talk about their careers journeys. Why not invite one into a science lesson to inspire young people into STEAM subjects?
2nd March
What is Martech? Understand the many careers in Marketing, Data and Technology, we have speakers available in these sectors.
3rd March
With so many volunteers on our platform involved in environment, STEAM and sustainability, organising a Sustainability Encounter will help young people to link up sustainable career pathways with the skills they are learning now.
4th March
With so many STEAM speakers on our platform able to talk confidently about their careers in engineering, book a Careers and Jobs Encounter now!
6-11th March
Planning a careers fair, it takes a lot of work but we can help here at F4S. Make things easy by inviting a range of great volunteers from our platform using our Careers and Job Encounter
8th March
Set up a short, virtual Maths4Girls encounter during a Maths lesson to allow volunteers to speak to your female students about careers that use maths and inspire them to take Maths beyond GCSE.
10th -16th March
Invite speakers to come and talk about their career pathways through a Routes and Pathways encounter and talk about the barriers they faced and personal challenges they overcame.
10th to 19th March
Did you know we have volunteers able to speak about careers in life sciences and healthcare?
22nd March
Book a Sustainability Encounter to inform young people about the many new types of careers solving the world’s problems and help them understand career pathways in sustainability.
22nd April
Invite a relatable role model to come in to mentor and judge your young people’s next Social Action project to benefit and improve your local community, through booking a Challenge or Competition encounter with F4S
22nd April
With so many volunteers on our platform involved in environment, STEAM and sustainability, organising a Sustainability Encounter will help young people form ideas about ways in which we can protect the earth.
27th April
F4S presents our annual virtual careers fair for 16-24 year olds (ticket information TBC)
Register and access this year’s content completely free here
12th May
Set up a short, virtual Maths4Girls encounter during a Maths lesson to allow volunteers to speak to your female students about careers that use maths and inspire them to take Maths beyond GCSE.
17th May
Book a Maths4Girls volunteer to speak to your female students about careers that use maths and inspire them to take Maths beyond GCSE.
29th May to 4th Jun
Invite some of our volunteers to speak about their careers in food technology, food production and how this links with the curriculum they are studying.
15th June
With so many volunteers on our platform involved in environment, STEAM and sustainability, organising a Sustainability Encounter will help young people hold their enthusiasm for understanding ways in which we can improve our environment.
26th to 30th June
Book a Maths4Girls volunteer to speak to your female students about careers that use maths and inspire them to take Maths beyond GCSE.