Head's Newsletter 21 June 2019

answers to the question “What (if anything) about your attitude or thinking towards a career has changed?” demonstrates some of the benefits of the event for students and how individuals took different things from it. “ I now know that the subjects I do at A level or uni don't ultimately decide my future, as there are many paths.” “I have discovered more job opportunities and found out that there are a number of different branches inside a job.” “I didn’t realise how long you have to go to uni for architecture.” “Jobs aren’t all about the money, happiness is important.” “I learned to try out more extra curricular activities so I could put that in my CV.” “I realised that the future is very important and that I should start focusing my studies on what i should become in the future.” “I am thinking about it a lot more and have more ideas.” We need even more people to put themselves forward to continue running events like this. If you (or someone you know) would be able to bring work to life with our students, there are a variety of ways to do so. Please complete our form ! Thanks. Helen Varley, Head of Careers

CAREERS FESTIVAL

“The careers festival this year was an amazing insight to the real world and the possibilities and difficulties that we may face in these tumultuous times and how the future is becoming unpredictable. We experienced amazing talks and workshops that allowed us to get to grips with new industries that we may have never even heard of. An example of this was the Tech start-up workshop where we learnt about technology starting to take over things like transport through companies like Tesla and Uber and how websites and technological information is being revolutionized via new technology like blockchain. Furthermore, learning and creating a CV which will eventually be passed on to employers in the future really brought it home how truly close we are to entering the real world. Overall it was an amazing experience learning from entrepreneurs and how not to make the mistakes that they have made and how to succeed in the future.” Bakr Al-Derzi, Year 10 student Year 10 came back after half-term to two days of career-related activities, aiming to broaden horizons and develop their understanding of work and careers, through work simulations and talks from people working in a variety of industries. These were largely and generously run by Tiffin parents, alumni and other contacts, in collaboration with a team of Tiffin staff, and included learning about: communication skills; mathematical modelling; organising events for Premiership Rugby; jobs in medical communications; campaigning for responsible investment and much more. At the end I asked a variety of evaluation questions. The selection below of student

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