Talk About The Future
Talk The Talk is a charity providing staff and students with a range of practical oracy workshops. These workshops are led by expert trainers who specialise in using oracy as an educational tool.
In partnership with the Jack Petchey Foundation, mainstream schools, special schools, alternative provisions (APs) and pupil referral units (PRUs) in London and Essex can access funding for Talk About The Future workshops for their state funded students in Year 11, Year 12 and Year 13.
Are your students ready to move on?
Leaving school to enter the world of work, further training or education is both an exciting and daunting time. The prospect of independence is often overwhelming.
The whole day workshop Talk About The Future supports students preparing to leave school or college by developing the competencies needed to take this next step with confidence and a positive mindset. This school workshop contains meaningful activities meeting the Gatsby Benchmarks.
Workshop Aims:
- Identifying employability skills
- Developing interview skills
- Nurturing presentation skills
- Improving connections with employers
- Boosting self-esteem
What does this workshop involve?
This workshop is aimed at students who are either in their final year of secondary school or in Sixth Form – with a focus on improving their connections with employers, colleges and universities
At the end of this workshop students will be able to keep their workbook which will assist them in creating their first CV, completing their UCAS application and preparing for upcoming interviews.
During the workshop students will:
- Talk about their life experiences and translate these into a defined set of unique skills
- Talk about their plans for moving on – and how confident they feel about this
- Learn about preparing for an interview and appropriate communication during an interview
- Prepare a set of open questions and undergo mock interviews, both as interviewer and interviewee
- Explore the impact and necessity of personal anecdotes within the interview situation
- Prepare for and undergo a mock interview with their trainer and peers
After the workshop:
Receive a personal Impact Report reporting progress across 3 measures and based on student self-assessment during the workshop.
Access our free online follow-up activities to help you embed the skills and confidence in the weeks after the workshops.
Excellent communication with students – relatable and friendly. A great balance between discussion and feedback with lots of enthusiasm and participation. Students now beginning to consider their future prospects with clear facts.
– Mossbourne Community School, Hackney
Students are highly engaged and are learning a lot of good skills. Pace is good and the sessions progress well. The trainer is obviously vastly experienced with training school children. Excellent.
– Prendergast Ladywell School, Lewisham