Regents Review Winter 2019

The Regents Review Winter 2019

GENERAL NEWS

Year 10 Work Experience Year 10 will be taking part in work experience the week beginning 18th May to 22nd May. All students have been issued with green or pink forms depending on if they are finding their own placement. If you still have these forms at home, please return them as soon as possible so that the health and safety checks can take place. Those who have returned pink forms will be having sessions to support their applications in the new year.

Year 11 PSHE Day 23rd September On this day, students covered sessions including: money management, mental health, careers, dangers of pornography, target setting and smoking/ drugs. Year 11 College Applications The deadline for applying to Peter Symonds College has now passed. If you have yet to apply to college/s then you need to be taking those steps now. Ideally apply to a couple of them so that you have a choice. Most colleges have an online application system so this can be done quickly from home. Some colleges may ask for a personal statement and we as a school can support this. Year 7 PSHE Day Year 7 students had a great day covering a range of PSHE topics on 19th November. All students were off timetable for the day and rotating around a carousel of different sessions covering: • Fire Safety • Anti Social Behaviour • Team Building - delivered by YMCA • Mental Health - delivered by Solent Mind • Relationships - delivered by Yellow Door • Respect • Google Classroom It was really good to see both students engaging with all the topics and to hear their positive feedback of how the sessions have benefitted them.

Year 11 Apprenticeships For those students looking to apply for

apprenticeships, we will be running a session going through how to find and apply for these courses. Being accepted as an apprentice can be very competitive, so we would advise you have a backup pathway through a college either on academic or vocational courses should you not be successful. Recommended website:

https://www.careerpilot.org.uk/ Year 11 Careers Interviews

The significant majority of Year 11 have now had a 1:1 careers appointment with our school’s careers advisor. Every student seen has/will be issued an action plan from their meeting which identifies their next steps they need to take for their educational pathways. Please ask your child about this as it gives useful information. The last few students will be done as soon as we return in January.

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