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SIXTH FORM INTERVIEW PROGRAMME
Mini MBA | Pages 3 & 4
Imbues students with the soft skills and power skills leaders need to have personal impact and presence. This course will introduce the key elements that underpin business performance as well as marketing and strategic frameworks.
Ivy House Award | Pages 5 & 6
Develops ownership, initiative, resilience, confidence and self-leadership. The Award bridges the gap between education and work, equipping students with the knowledge and skills to thrive, whatever their chosen path.
VR & AI Interview Training | Pages 7 & 8
Award-winning VR & AI technology enables students to develop crucial soft skills and gain confidence to apply them in key interactions, such as university and job interviews, ahead of entering higher education & professional world.
Digital Skills & MS Office Certification | Page 9
Certification in the crucial Microsoft Office suite of applications will help maximise your digital efficiency for study and work, and show future employers that you have proven, accredited digital skills.
Cookery & Nutrition Course | Page 10
Prepare for life at university and beyond with this non-examined course that develops nutritional knowledge & cookery skills and techniques. Includes a Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene Certificate useful for part-time/gap year work.
Registration for courses | Page 10
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A range of outstanding, timetabled & optional opportunities for Sixth Form students to gain valuable and sought-after super-curricular skills and qualifications that will distinguish you as an exceptional candidate when moving into the competitive world of higher education and work.
Mini-MBA
Overview
•3 terms starting 2nd half of Michaelmas term
•One double lesson timetabled per week
Outstanding course credentials
• Mini-MBA designed by Ashridge Executive Education and Hult International Business School.
• Currently also offered at Radley College and Berkhamstead School.
This is for you if you are...
• Wanting to stand out from the crowd on paper, at interviews and in the workplace.
• Keen to have an outstanding and much sought-after qualification on your Higher Education applications and CV.
• Interested in how business works.
4 Modules
• Personal Impact & Presence (PIP)
• Business Performance
• Marketing & Strategy
• Business Simulation Competition
Blended learning programme
• Online self-directed elements.
• Timetabled classroom sessions.
• Aligns with A Level teaching schedule.
• Assessment via workbooks, quizzes, assignments and business simulation project.
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Over the four modules you will learn...
Personal Impact & Presence (PIP)
• Giving and receiving feedback and non-verbal communication.
• Relational Awareness.
• Developing emotional awareness.
• Understanding trust and influencing.
• Dealing with conflict and having difficult conversations well.
Business Performance
• Introduction to financial accounting and financial statements.
• What you can learn from company accounts.
• Financial value creation.
• The supply chain and ‘specialisation’.
• Managing business performance.
Marketing & Strategy
• Identifying customers and segments.
• Making sense of buyer behaviour.
• Marketing communications strategies and marketing plans.
• Thinking strategically.
• SWOT and PESTEL analysis and tools for macro-economic analysis.
• Presenting to investors
Business Simulation Course
A 5-week business simulation competition to help students develop their interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence and business acumen.
• Coming together as a new board of Directors, students work in teams and are responsible for formulating and implementing a successful strategy for their company.
• In the simulated environment, time moves quickly with one year passing in a week. Teams have to make important decisions to secure their futures.
• All the businesses have different starting points and histories, but all have a fair chance of winning the competition.
• Anything can change between the start and the end of the competition, a virtual five years’ time.
• Students explore the impact of their own and others’ strategic decisions on their businesses and on the markets in which they operate.
“My favourite course so far! We were assigned a group and given the tools to practically take over an online business. We worked collaboratively to gain a better understanding of general business management functions, and what different skills are needed in setting up and running a business.”
Anna, 2020 Mini MBA
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An exciting qualification that stretches learning beyond academic qualifications and traditional extra-curricular activities, to make you stand out from the crowd in the competitive recruitment world.
The Ivy House Award
Outstanding course credentials
Overview
•Studied across 20 sessions
•Starts 2nd half Michaelmas term
•One double lesson timetabled per week
Powerful and empowering lessons that will give you the confidence and skills to take ownership of your future and stand out in a globally competitive world...impacting:
• How you lead yourself and others.
• The relationships you build.
• The careers and paths you choose.
• Your self-confidence and wellbeing.
• The impact you make on the world.
This is for you if you...
• Want to discover your unique character.
• Wish to learn how to play to your strengths.
• Are preparing for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences in later life.
• Are looking for the personal skills to thrive in the future.
7 Life-changing skills
• Core Strength
• 100% Ownership
• Conscious Mind
• Courageous Leadership
• Intentional Relationships
• Proactive Wellbeing
• Human Leadership
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The kind of life-changing learning that is normally only available to a tiny percentage of senior executives.
SIXTH FORM INTERVIEW PROGRAMME
<<< POWERED BY VR AND AI >>>
Learn crucial soft skills and develop your interview techniques using VR
& AI technology.
Almost all leading business surveys, such as the Harvard Business Review, put soft skills, such as leadership, communication, teamwork, and interpersonal awareness, at the top of the list for recruiters.
Our well-established interview training programme has been extended with the addition of Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies; our students can practise and develop these crucial skills and gain confidence to apply these skills in key interactions like job interviews, feedback sessions and teamwork scenarios – all their own pace – and in their own time – without the need to meet in person.
VR & AI Example Timetable:
• Feb/March Morgan Stanley Introduction to Internships & CV writing
• March/April Bodyswaps Interview training
• Early May Shortlist.Me online interviews
• May/June Shortlist.Me In-person feedback (via MS Teams)
Overview
• Morgan Stanley internships & CV workshops
• Bodyswaps VR/AI interview training
• Online interviews & feedback with Shortlist.Me
• EBP & DH in-person interview activities
Award-winning VR soft skills training with Bodyswaps
Our Bodyswaps VR headsets give our students access to a vast library of off-the-shelf simulations where they can learn in safe and realistic environments and boost their confidence ahead of entering the higher education and professional world.
The technology used by top graduate employers across the globe
Shortlist.Me gives you access to employmentreadiness mock online interviews, which simulate real interviews so students can rehearse their answers under the pressures of an interview, play them back and compare them against the expert guidance provided to refine and improve their performance.
Making the most of in-person human interaction
The Morgan Stanley Introduction to Internships and CV Writing Workshops, and personalised interview feedback with our partner EBP, complete the whole programme which also includes the range of traditional interview practice activities.
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Learn crucial skills in a safe & realistic environment. Boost your confidence ahead of entering the higher education and professional world
Proven Results
After only a single session with Bodyswaps’ Job Interview Simulator, students feel more prepared and confident for the interview process.
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Digital Skills
MS Office Certification
Digital skills training focused on a number of crucial areas such as being safe online, communicating, collaborating and sharing online, and mastering some key applications that will enhance students’ future studies and work.
MS Office Specialist Certification
Online courses that will give you in-depth knowledge and IT skills that power universities and businesses around the world, making you more digitally efficient & prepared for the future.
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7 Essential IT applications:
• Word - documentation
• Excel - spreadsheets
• PowerPoint - presentations
• Outlook - communications
• Access - databases
• SharePoint - file storage and sharing
• OneNote - digital note-taking
REGISTER QUICKLY
Places on the MINI MBA, IVY HOUSE AWARD and COOKERY & NUTRITION COURSE are limited and will be allocated in order of registration when booking opens. Please note that the Ivy House, Mini MBA and Cookery & Nutrition courses are optional and students are not required to do any of these. The Digital Skills and Interview Training Programme are compulsory and will be timetabled for all students.
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Be prepared for life at university and beyond - and get a food safety & hygiene certificate to help you get part-time/gap year work.
Cookery & Nutrition
Sixth Form General Cookery
Your chance to learn a invaluable skills for the future - develop nutritional knowledge and practical cookery skills and techniques for seven weeks in Lower Sixth, with one double lesson timetabled per week.
Essential skills for life
• How to plan well-balanced meals that can be prepared quickly
• Expand skills and techniques to create good quality, skilful dishes
• Develop a love of and enthusiasm for foods from around the world
• Understand the relationship between health & diet
• Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene Certificate
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April 2022
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