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Academic excellence through pathways
appropriate to the individual
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Challenging expectations of attendance,
discipline and achievement
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Rigorous monitoringand
communication with home
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Excellent standards ofteaching by
experienced and expertstaff
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Care, guidance and supportof each student as
an individual
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• What we will do to support your son/daughter
• What you can do to support your son/daughter
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Our support for your son/daughter
• Environment to encourage study• Tutor Group– Tutorial Programme– Marist Values– Study
• Tutor monitoring• Subject monitoring• Subject support
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Parents’ evenings 2012-2013
• A – L: Thursday 8 November• M – Z: Thursday 15 November
• All Year 12: Wednesday 27 March
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Reporting
• Monitoring via Firefly• Reports
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What you can do to help us supportyour son/daughter
• Ensure they are on time • Ensure they have the correct equipment• Encourage them to wear their badge• Talk to them about College• Contact us if you have any concerns– [email protected]
• Come to the parents’ evenings• Check Firefly every week
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• A web based portal that allows parents to access real time information about their son or daughter at the college via the internet
• All parents get their own log-in – separate from the student
Firefly
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• Allows parents to log-in and monitor attendance 24/7
• Works on any web based device
• Attendance is real time• Can view timetables and
contact information• Can view pastoral log
and performance in class
Firefly
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• You will receive your own parent log-in by the end of September
• Any problems the College will help you access your son / daughter’s Firefly records
• Keep the log-in safe and use it every week
www.firefly.stmarysblackburn.ac.uk
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Year 12• Advice about subject pathways
• Offer 1:1 guidance interviews
• Organise a Post 18 Futures Event in College for students & parents (April)
• Help with preparation for applying to university
• Organise Yr12 HE visits: Oxbridge Regional Conference – Haydock Park Edge Hill Primary Teaching Day
• Volunteering opportunities with BRFC Mentoring & Blackburn Royal Hospital
• Work experience co-ordinator in SMC
• Run workshops to help students prepare for university admissions tests
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June programme of events:• Prepare materials & organise workshops designed to help
students start a Personal Statement
• Hold workshops to register all students for UCAS
• Organise a Higher Education Regional Event in College
• HE talks held in College: University of Manchester Medicine Workshop Salford Nursing Day University of Manchester Law talk UCLAN Computing talk
• Further university visits: University of Chester – Primary Teaching & Law applicants University of Leeds Open Day
Year 12…
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Year 13• Support all students with their UCAS applications (All year)
• Offer individual guidance interviews
• September & October: prepare student UCAS guide & hold timetabled UCAS application workshops
• Read & offer advice on Personal Statements
• Quality check all UCAS applications
• Offer mock interviews
• February: host a Student Finance Talk & an NHS Bursary Talk
• August: Results Day support!
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Job Seekers…• From December onwards: help job seeker groups: CV, job applications &
mock interviews
• Employment fair held for job seekers
• Via (CXL) Advisor in College – guidance interviews & up to date information on local job vacancies, apprenticeships & training schemes
Advertise any opportunities to students:
• For example: BAE & a range of other local employers
• 1 student has secured a competitive Year in Industry Placement as a Fuel Scientist with Shell
• Another student has successfully gained a position as a Trainee Accountant at Ainsworths (Accrington)
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SMC Leavers• As well as advising & supporting over 500 of our current
students, we also helped over 40 past St Mary’s students with their UCAS application
• Offer guidance interviews & mock interviews
• Provide references
• Support via telephone & email
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Current SMC University Offers• Increase in offers for Pharmacy, Optometry & other healthcare science
careers
• 8 successful Medicine offers, including Oxford, Bristol, Southampton, Newcastle, Manchester & Liverpool
• 3 offers for Veterinary Medicine at Bristol, Nottingham & the Royal Veterinary College
• 1 offer from Oxford for Medicine and 1 offer from Cambridge for Politics, Sociology & Psychology
• 2 students obtained offers for Politics from London School of Economics
• Physics & Maths remain popular choices & students have offers from Edinburgh & St Andrews among other competitive universities
• 2 Photography students have gained offer from the prestigious Glasgow School of Art & Design as well as Leeds College of Art & Design
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