Year 9 capstone. Students consolidate their year (KS4 options, pathways, NAW spotlights, NCW deep-research, work experience day) into a Year 9 Careers Plan they take into Year 10. Includes their final GCSE option choices, top 3 careers, top 3 sectors, top 3 skill targets.
Lesson outcomes & success criteria

Learning outcomes

Success criteria

Lesson sequence
1
Plan consolidation
individual task · 30 min
Single A4: GCSEs chosen, top 3 careers, top 3 sectors, top 3 skills, one Y10 goal.
Builds: Planning
2
Year 11 me letter
reflection · 15 min
Letter to your Year 11 self: what do you hope is true? Sealed and stored.
3
Plan signing
task · 15 min
Sign your plan, get a tutor signature, take a photo. Plan goes home for parent review.
📓 Chapter timeline: Save your signed Year 9 Careers Plan to your Chapter timeline as a permanent KS3 milestone.
🎮 Chapter Student Game +80 XP
Action: Save your full KS4 plan to your Chapter timeline
Save your Year 9 Careers Plan as the most important Chapter milestone of your KS3 journey.
Skills: Planning
Wrap-up
Plenary discussion

Pair-share for 2 minutes: one thing you'll take from this lesson into next week.

Homework / follow-up

This is the single most important careers document of KS3. Print, sign, store. Reference in Y10 baseline meeting.