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 plan and deliver a dynamic and immersive curriculum each half term which is child centred and aspirational. This takes it account information from assessment, observation and collaborative discussion with our parents during annual review meetings. As children move through school we encourage them to be part of the planning process as they start to engage in careers meetings and interviews.

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

Our Preparing for Adulthood Lead is Mr. A Pleass who can be contacted on apleass@nexusmat.org

Development of key skills is monitored through our Autism Education Trust Framework (adapted from the Autism Education Trust Progression Framework.)

As we plan for careers education, 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: