Preparing for the future Whatever you want to study, we will prepare you well for the future. Almost all girls go on to university or Art, Drama and Music Schools. Every year we have a significant number of girls achieving places at Russell Group institutions in a vast range of subject areas. To help you make the right choice, we have a substantial programme of activities and support. Oxbridge candidates are able to attend a GDST Conference to help support them while making their applications. Girls wanting to pursue Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Science have specialist support and opportunities to practise interview technique. Our Sixth Form Team including our Head of Careers are on hand to guide and support all girls in their choice of course and university. We also explore alternative routes such as taking a higher apprenticeship, spending a year in industry or joining the Armed Forces. Whatever route you choose, you will be assigned a personal tutor to help you with your application and Personal Statement and the Director of Sixth Form and Head will meet with you to discuss your application to ensure it is the best that it can be. NHSG Careers The NHSG Careers programme aims to open your eyes to a wide range of career options and put you in touch with professionals from a wide range of businesses and organisations. As well as our biennial Careers fair, we will be inviting a variety of speakers to School to tell you more about their careers and to offer you advice as you begin to focus on your choices for higher education and beyond. In addition to this, various careers-based activities run throughout the year, such as the NHSG Higher Education Conference, a GDST Oxbridge Conference and the UCAS Day for Year 12. There will be many opportunities throughout Sixth Form to gain specific insight into specialist career areas and university applications through our CEF programme (Careers, Employment and your Future). Acquiring Additional Skills It is important that you develop skills for life beyond your academic studies. Our enrichment activities are further strengthened in Sixth Form by the GDST CareerStart programme designed to help girls develop the skills they will need for university and the workplace. Girls in Year 12 attend a networking workshop and then have to host their own networking event attended by local business leaders and VIPs; it is a challenging experience but highly valuable and praised by employers.
GDST Insight days Through the GDST, we offer Insight Days with businesses to help Sixth Form girls learn more about industry and employment and gain commercial awareness. The GDST run these in partnership with businesses such as PWC, Barclays, Siemens, InterQuest, Broadway Malyan, Rolls Royce and Engie. These Insight days provide girls with crucial exposure to genuine working environments, the opportunity to network with senior professionals and to gain a valuable insight into the competitive graduate recruitment market – something which is becoming increasingly important. GDST Scholarships and Awards Another of the significant benefits of being part of the Girls’ Day School Trust is the number of special scholarships and awards for which girls can apply. These are unique to the GDST and include: • GDST Travel Scholarships • GDST Creative Writing Prize • Johnston Memorial Scholarship for Law • Minerva Prize for all-round achievement • Pearson & Silver Awards for financial assistance in attending courses or meetings with a classical content • Frederica Lord University Scholarship and Lorna Cocking Scholarship • Laurie Magnus Poetry Prize • Anne Hogg Modern Foreign Languages Prize • Somerville and Gurney Awards GDST Life and Rungway GDST Life allows our family of 25 schools to collaborate and share expertise to help girls learn without limits. Our network of alumnae is the largest of its kind anywhere in the world, a community of women from all walks of life and around the globe who are there to support and inspire each other. GDST Life is the gateway to this community. You can access it from any device and it allows you to connect with pupils from across the GDST who share your interests, to get involved with GDST-wide groups, societies and events, and learn new things on topics that matter to you such as wellbeing, university applications and the world of work. You can also take advantage of Rungway, our mentoring app, to ask GDST alumnae the questions you have about future study, career options and life after school. You can sign up to Rungway at www.go.rungway.com/gdst.
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