Careers

Welcome to the Careers Department 

The careers department is  located centrally within school, and is open to all girls, their parents and staff - individual consultations are available by appointment in the lunch hour.

The department co-ordinates an extensive programme of visits, speakers and events for each year, alongside a biennial careers convention, UCAS application support, psychometric testing, work experience, mock interviews with feedback and taught sessions as part of the PSHCE programme for Years 6-11. 

The majority of students succeed in securing a place in their first choice university.

For destinations of sixth form leavers click here.

Individual Year events are listed below:

• Year 7 
•            
• Take Our Daughters to Work
• Year 8     
•        
• Trip to Emma Bridgewater Pottery   
• Year 9     
•        
• Women’s Enterprise Day Event
• Options Evening
                               
• Year 10  
•          
• Careers Lessons in summer term:
• Cambridge Occupational Analysts Testing
• Year 11
             
• Careers Lessons in autumn term:
• Cambridge Occupational Analysts feedback and interviews  
• Individual follow-up interviews with Head of Careers
• Cambridge Occupational Analysts 'Preview' Report  to Parents
• Maximising Your Potential Day
• Careers Trip to Ernst Young in London

Sixth Form programme

• Year 12   
•         
• Supported UCAS research and preparation of applications
• UCAS information evening for parents
• Careers interviews (Spring)
• Work Experience (Summer)
• Centigrade Testing
• Careers courses, visits and tasters
• University Open Days
• Higher Education Fair
• Oxbridge Conference
• UCAS preparation day
  
  Year 13
  
  Supported UCAS Application
• Mock interviews for Oxbridge and Medical candidates
• Individual Careers interviews

To contact the careers department email our Head of Careers