Keeping in Touch and Getting Involved

Fettes Community Portal and Fettes Career Partnership

DIGITAL ARCHIVES Browse or search the Fettesian magazine dating back to 1878, OF Newsletters from 1971 and over 1,300 scanned sports and House photographs.

FETTES CAREER PARTNERSHIP Use the Fettes Community Portal to offer or seek career support and connections. There are already over 800 experienced volunteers from many different career paths happy to help.

Have you joined the 2,000+ members of the Fettes Community Portal?

In April we achieved the milestone of 2,000 active users on the Fettes Community Portal. Thank you to all the Old Fettesians, Sixth Form students, parents and staff members who have signed up to join our digital community.

Since launching in April 2020, there has been a steady stream of new members joining the portal and we look forward to welcoming more. Make the most of your access to this network by connecting with your peers, browsing the Digital Archives and seeing what events we have coming up. You can also provide help and advice to others or seek out a mentor for yourself. An amazing 42% of users have noted on their profiles that they are willing to help others and, with messaging and video chat features built into the portal, it is easy to connect. If you ever need any assistance, please email fettes.community@fettes.com and we will be happy to help.

If you haven’t created your account yet, we recommend you join us. Simply sign up at fettescommunity.org.

If you would like to see the portal before signing up, you can find out more in this short video – bit.ly/39BzjiZ

The Fettes Career Partnership Programme We have been working hard for almost 10 years now to help the Fettes community to support one another with their careers, starting with business networking events in Edinburgh and London and then broadening to informal insight evenings for the Sixth Form. The two pandemic years have been no exception. The launch of the Fettes Community Portal with its digital directory, alongside the rapid adoption of digital technology across the globe, has enabled us to reach and help more people all over the world.

This year we have:

Supported 349 career conversations through the Fettes

Community Portal ʜ Hosted Fettes in Conversation with Jonathan Quin (Mo 1991–1992) and Conrad Irwin (Inv-Ca 2000–2007)

Tech Entrepreneurs, talking Start-ups, Technology and Innovation.

Run a Fettes Career Partnership insight session for current students on Careers with Medicine and Healthcare featuring: • Sunayna Best (CW 2001–2006), Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow, Registrar, Academic Clinician • Harriet Myzak-Douglas (JS-Ar 2006–2011), Assistant Clinical Psychologist • Donald Ross-Talbot (Mo 1975–1980), RAF Regional Clinical Director, Occupational Health Specialist, Capita • Sophie Scott (PS-CW 2006–2015), Staff Nurse, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit • Anthony Gilbert (Gl 2001–2005), Clinical Academic Physiotherapist • Abigail Gliksten (Ar 2009–2011), Dentist

Hosted several interesting and thought provoking climate change focussed conversations around COP26, including: • Fettes in Conversation: Climate Change with Martin Lees (CE 1955–1960) • Fettes in Conversation: Finance and Climate Change, with Global Head of ESG Research at HSBC, Wai-Shin Chan (Gl 1993–1998) • Working in Climate Change interviews for current students. ʜ Supported Oxbridge mock interview sessions for 54 students from Fettes and other Edinburgh High Schools

Hosted a live webinar with the following OFs based in the US to provide insight to current students applying to US Universities: • Erika Kraabel (PS-CE 2015–2021), Duke University in North Carolina • Olly Paterson (PS-Ki 2015–2021), Northwestern University • David Sinclair (PS-Ca 2013–2018), Wake Forest University in North Carolina • Joy Dada (Ar 2014–2019), University of Chicago • Phoebe Crosthwaite (PS-Ar 2010–2015), Stanford (field hockey scholar and neuroscience graduate). • Elena Jacque (née Poleganova) (Inv-CW 1994–2002), University of Pennsylvania (graduate in comparative literature and philosophy), Fordham University School of Law (juris doctor)

Hosted a digital Careers Day attended by over 500

Sixth Form students and their parents from Fettes and other Edinburgh High Schools. Our keynote speaker was

Adventurer and journalist Mark Agnew (Gl 2005–2009) and many other OFs generously created a range of career insight videos for the students.

Produced five subsequent podcasts which can be accessed by searching ‘Fettes Community’ on your usual podcast provider.

Looking to 2022/2023 we have an exciting programme in development which will include a range of digital conversations, insight sessions and webinars and many inperson careers events too: ‘Eight years on from Fettes’ an inspirational talk by OF Matty Jackman (Ki 2009–2014), Morehead-Cain Scholar now working for the MoD and the Home Office Fettes in Conversation with Elliot Graves (Gl 2007–2012), Emmy nominated Director and Creative Technologist Careers Lunch for the Sixth Form with OFs who are back for Commem Weekend Oxbridge mock interviews for Fettes and Edinburgh High Schools Fettes Career Partnership Insight sessions: Careers with Finance; Studying in the USA; Careers with Technology; Careers with Law; Business Networking; Profiles and CVs ʜ Sandy Gunn (Ca 1933–1937) Aerospace Careers Programme – for Fettes and Edinburgh schools

If you would like to offer support to the Fettes Career Partnership Programme please sign up to the Fettes Community Portal (fettescommunity.org) and let users know in your directory entry how you are able to help.

If you are looking for assistance or advice we recommend searching or filtering the directory on the Fettes Community Portal for members of the Fettes community in your field of interest who are willing to explore internship opportunities, work experience or simply offer wise advice. Alternatively, over 2,430 Old Fettesians now have Fettes College listed in their education on their LinkedIn profiles making it easier than ever to find Fettes connections during professional searches. We are lucky to be members of such a supportive community, so don’t forget to take advantage of all that the Fettes Community Portal has to offer.

GROUPS Join our growing number of interest groups to keep in touch. We have regional groups, the OF Golfing Society, Choir and those interested in Pipe Band, with more coming soon.