Schools

We work closely with select schools within each of our operational regions. We focus on areas of high deprivation and work collaboratively with teachers to identify students most in need of JET support.
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How are JET schools selected?

Our schools are selected by mutual agreement between JET and a school’s SLT based on a range of factors including:

  • Location: Where possible we prioritise schools within IMD 1-3.
  • Free School Meal ratio: We prioritise schools with higher than average FSM percentages.
  • Access to similar initiatives: We focus where possible on schools which lack access to similar programmes.
  • SLT buy-in: Becoming a JET school requires buy-in from senior leaders and a shared commitment to SEL development due to the intensive nature of Blue Skies and our robust impact methodology. 

This is a life changing programme. There have been significant changes in behaviour and attitudes in our students after just one year.
Teacher, Helston Community College, Cornwall

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How will my school work with JET?

When your school signs up to work with JET, you will be assigned a JET Youth Programmes Officer (YPO) who will become your main point of contact. Your YPO will support you to select students who would most benefit from Blue Skies support in each year group. They will also become the key youth officer who will support your students throughout their Blue Skies journey.

What’s in it for my school?

  • Tailored, long-term support for students who may be struggling with focus, self-belief and engagement at school due to low confidence or adversity (including Free School Meals, ACEs, young carers and living in care).
  • Measurable improvements in SEL outcomes, attendance, attitude to learning, behaviour and academic attainment.
  • Access to JET’s dynamic STEM network of over 75 inspiring corporate and military partners and their professional workforces.

What is Blue Skies?

Our intensive, flagship programme is delivered as a three-year syllabus to cohorts of 15 students in years 8, 9 and 10 (a total of 45 students per school, per annum).

With a sustained focus on building confidence and aspiration and developing key SEL skills, students receive 12 Blue Skies sessions per year: five in-school sessions, five workplace visits, an evaluation session and a public graduation. More info>>>

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Delivering Gatsby benchmarks

 

  • A stable careers programme
  • Learning from career and labour market information
  • Addressing the needs of each young person
  • Linking curriculum learning to careers
  • Encounters with employers and employees
  • Experiences of workplaces
  • Encounters with further and higher education
  • Personal guidance

Inspirational Outreach

Our Inspirational Outreach (IO) sessions are one-off, inspirational, career-focussed events which we deliver in partnership with our corporate and military network. IO sessions often cater for larger group sizes and whole year groups.

We aim to deliver a minimum of one IO event per academic year, per JET school, aimed at the wider school community. Depending on your needs, an IO may be:

  • An inspirational whole-school assembly from our network of STEM speakers (e.g. fast jet military pilots, space engineers or local entrepreneurs)
  • A tailored careers day (e.g. aimed at y11 students)
  • A STEM engagement day
  • An inspirational teambuilding day
  • Y7 transition support

Learn more>>>

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