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This curriculum has a global outlook and helps students to develop the practical research and application skills they need to both step up their Academic profiles, as well as let them start to explore issues and ideas that might be of career and vocational interest. We see this as a marker of St Dunstan’s commitment to a renaissance education, aware as we are that the thinkers and artisans of the Quattrocento travelled widely, read deeply, became as skilled in hand as in mind.
Four or Three A Level subjects
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C Prefects Sports Volunteering Socie es The Arts
Global Perspec ves Prac cal Qualifica ons Learn a Language Online Courses UCAS
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Leadership Sports Volunteering Societies The Arts
For the Diploma diagram, the titles for each section are A- A Levels C- Co-Curricular Activities E- Elective Courses so take out references to ECAS/ ACAS/Examined Curriculum and Skills sub-text etc
Higher Education & Careers Our employment in the future will not look like the employment of the past. Indeed, the jobs most young people will go on to do may well not have been invented as yet, and lifelong training and re-training are likely to be the norm. The Sixth Form has a dedicated Futures team to prepare and shape post-College pathways:
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● Director of Futures: they guide the
creation of university applications, information and institution finding, personal statement building, reference construction and organisation of UCAS grades as well as managing submissions to meet scheduled deadlines. ● All of Year 12 spend a week in
June working with employers and companies across London and the South East. Students will also be supported with writing CVs, application forms and advice on interviews and assessment centres via the tutorial programme. ● The Director of Futures
also shapes knowledge of the workplace, vocational applications, organises and oversees work placements including the summer Workplace Week in Trinity Term of Year 12 and guides the students in building a bespoke Curriculum Vitae. ● Aiming High Group provides
access to elite university study programmes: institutions such as
LSE, Cambridge, Imperial College and Oxford, Sciences Po Grande Ecole in Paris, the South East Asian universities, as well as Canada and the American Ivy league. The group builds such interest through Year 10 and 11, and then meets weekly during Year 12 to properly prepare for such bespoke applications often required early in Year 13. ● There is a different arm of the
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The Futures Curriculum has four components: ● Higher Education and Career route-finding, all students ● Aiming High specialist support groups for Oxbridge, Medics, Dentist, Vets and Lawyers ● Global Perspectives Qualification, which can be opted out of by students after certain levels of attainment, or can be taken as a full A Level alongside subject A Levels ● Futures explorations courses that students can opt into over the two years
Activities
Aiming High group with a specialist who mentors doctors, lawyers and veterinarians, and a similar one for Art School applications, all of which run on different tram lines to UCAS and therefore require different sorts of support and mentoring. Each year, the College holds a very popular Careers Fair which is attended by delegates from a diverse range of fields, reflecting the range of employment opportunities pursued by our students and allowing them to network and ask questions of those with the most up-to-date careers information.
