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This presentation is about: • Recovering friendship and community • Recovering routine, recovering structure

This presentation is about: • Recovering friendship and community • Recovering routine, recovering structure • Recovering opportunity and freedom

This presentation is about: • Remembering our potential. This short video is worth watching

This presentation is about: • Remembering our potential. This short video is worth watching to remind us of the ‘bigger picture’ • https: //www. emerging-leaders. net/resourcecentre/yufrmh 7 lwfqsg 2042 kjd 8 e 9 ek 1 huok

Recovering routine, recovering structure • What has been hard about the past few weeks?

Recovering routine, recovering structure • What has been hard about the past few weeks? • What has been helpful? • How have you managed to get yourself through? • Be honest with yourself and be kind. You’ve survived it

Recovering opportunity and freedom Set up a range of options so that you have

Recovering opportunity and freedom Set up a range of options so that you have choices as you come to the end of your school career. . .

Recovering opportunity and freedom Because you are full of potential Predicting your grades: just

Recovering opportunity and freedom Because you are full of potential Predicting your grades: just to reassure you that we will be predicting grades on what we know is your best potential. It does not matter that we have had no end of year 12 exams.

Destination programme • June – July 2020 – investigate pathways, start thinking about personal

Destination programme • June – July 2020 – investigate pathways, start thinking about personal statements • September - October 2020– UCAS application to be completed • January – March 2021 – Apprenticeship applications will be made available. Applying for both university and apprenticeships gives you more choices.

UCAS: University and Colleges Admissions Service UCAS is an admin service, a kind of

UCAS: University and Colleges Admissions Service UCAS is an admin service, a kind of university postal service, designed to guide students through the whole process of applying to university, providing valuable information and supporting services for applicants and their parents.

Why choose university? Opportunities whilst studying • Chance to study a subject you are

Why choose university? Opportunities whilst studying • Chance to study a subject you are passionate about. • Achieve a qualification that will lead to your chosen career. • Gain confidence, independence, and important life skills that will widen your prospects. • It may give time for the economy to re-build as well as time for you to develop skills and knowledge. • Make lifelong friends.

Researching courses You can use the Unifrog software and the UCAS search tool as

Researching courses You can use the Unifrog software and the UCAS search tool as well as going to the university websites themselves. search. ucas. com

The personal statement • Your chance to present yourself individually. • One personal statement

The personal statement • Your chance to present yourself individually. • One personal statement for all choices. Max. 4, 000 characters, 47 lines Min. 1, 000 characters No spelling/grammar check No formatting

The reason we start this process now. . . • To make a compelling

The reason we start this process now. . . • To make a compelling application, you need to think about your strengths and think about the work you are willing to put into A-level and Btec work. • Nationally, the main push for applications to be completed is in October and November; • Some universities start making offers as early as late October and early November; • This is for you to be aware of, for you to know what you are working towards.

What you can do next. . . • Research the courses that you’re interested

What you can do next. . . • Research the courses that you’re interested in- be hopeful and be positive and be ambitious. • Be honest with yourself about what you enjoy as well as what you are good at: knowing yourself and your strengths is a life-skill and one that will always serve you well when you are making big choices.

https: //www. ucas. com/undergraduat e/applying-university/filling-your-ucas -undergraduate-application • Make your way into UCAS. com •

https: //www. ucas. com/undergraduat e/applying-university/filling-your-ucas -undergraduate-application • Make your way into UCAS. com • Undergraduate registration • Apply 2021 • Fill in the details • Buzzword best 21

Having filled in basic name, birth date and address details, you will be asked

Having filled in basic name, birth date and address details, you will be asked to create a password. Keep it somewhere safe; know your security info well.

And from here, once you have attached yourself to your mentor, the main setting

And from here, once you have attached yourself to your mentor, the main setting up into UCAS will have been achieved.

At this point, you will be given a personal ID which you should make

At this point, you will be given a personal ID which you should make a note of.

Turning down the outside interference The next steps are back to you : •

Turning down the outside interference The next steps are back to you : • Where are you at right now? • What do you need to happen in order to be able to pick up your learning and reconnect with your courses and recover your routines?

Re-imagine your potential • What have you done- work started, whether finished or not,

Re-imagine your potential • What have you done- work started, whether finished or not, is still work done. • What are you most worried about? Write it down – talk about it. Get rid of interference. • We can do difficult things, especially when we have a helping hand…