About Us

Our Partnerships

Our Management of Partnerships with Industry
Employers are one of our key partners. Through partnership with industry we wish to ensure that we maximise our pupils’ opportunities to experience:

• a rich vocabulary contextualised curriculum
• quality advice, guidance and motivation for future career paths
  

Ownership of Partnership
Mrs L McMorrow

Partnership Team
Careers staff

Communication Channels with Industrialists
Letters, phone, fax, email
Induction breakfast seminars
Mentorship meetings
Attendance at North West Pathways Board Meeting
End of year events

General Areas for Partnership Activities

• Structured weekly vocational placements for pupils.
• Block placements in industry twice yearly.
• Mentor advice and support in classroom.
• Assistance in production of good practice manual.
• Adopt a classroom
• Teacher insight into industry placements
• Employer presentation to groups of individual students interested in working in ICT.
• Direct ICT employer-school recruitment meetings.

Employer Partnerships

• School Employer Connections
• University of Ulster
• Foyle Learning Community
• Seagate
• E+I Engineering
• Invista
• All-Pipe Engineering
• Maydown Precision Engineering
• Bombardier Aerospace
• Parents, Friends And Teachers Association
• Feeder Primary Schools
• Community groups
• Foyle Learning Community
• Foyle Cloud
• Microsoft Partners in Learning
• University of Ulster
• University Of Ulster Step-Up Science
• Careers Service
• Contested Space
• Anchor Programme
• Rathmore group
• Lawlor Foundation
• Council For Catholic Maintained School
• WELB
• Department Of Education

Partnerships with the local Business Community
We involve local business as follows:

• Providing advice and guidance in the use of quality models e.g.Charter Mark, Investors in People, EFQM Model
• Delivering careers’ programmes
• Mentoring
• Involving business in the delivery of vocational courses
• We hold "Back to School" days for local business