Professor Bill Swadling confirmed as judge for Sixth Form Essay Prize

by Vashti Turner  on August 12, 2016  in  Sixth Form

We are all looking forward to welcoming our founder cohort of Sixth Formers to enrolment day on 25^th August, and to starting properly with our induction programme on 1^st September. A reminder of this will be published the week beforehand, and in the meantime, we wanted to keep you up to date with some of our plans.

We have confirmation that the chair of the judging panel for our Sixth Form essay prize will be Professor Bill Swadling, a law professor from Brasenose College, Oxford. The title of the essay will be ‘What does it mean to be British in the 21^st Century?’, which will tie in with the theme of our lecture series. This will present a range of views from a number of different perspectives (politics, business, diplomacy; local, national and international), and you will be encouraged to quote the speakers in the prize essay. Also linking with this is a seminar day at our partner school Charterhouse, which we hope to confirm early in the new school year; we will all go for the day, and it promises to be extremely interesting.

Our links with both Charterhouse and Godolphin and Latymer are developing well; many valuable joint events are in the pipeline, including access to higher education advice. We already have 4 dates in the diary at Godolphin; 3 early in the year focus on US university applications (and we are extremely lucky to have access to the best possible advice on this through Godolphin, the Sutton Trust and the Fulbright scholarship programme), and the fourth one focuses on less common degree courses, which you might well not have considered.

Beyond university, our careers provision is also developing nicely. We have appointed a careers adviser and have been working with a number of partners to set up a series of workshops on employability throughout the year (two are planned for the autumn term, including one with volunteers from Goldman Sachs, the investment bank). Our entrepreneurship programme through Kensington Creates will also be up and running, for those who are serious about enterprise (and perhaps want to set up their own business). Finally, all this will be topped off with an individual mentoring scheme which will link each of our students with a volunteer from the National Citizenship Service. Not forgetting, of course, 6 outstanding lessons per week for each subject, with planned pre-reading and rigorous feedback on your homework…

Mr Pavey

Vice Principal – Sixth Form