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Career Development Workshop

In March, the College welcomed CSW
group Senior Career Development
Consultant, Mike Shail, who led an
Apprenticeship Workshop for students in
Years 12 and 13 who had volunteered for
some ‘next steps’ guidance.
Mike was the first visitor to run a workshop
on the College premises post lockdown
and his bespoke session covered topics
including: job searching in the current
climate, opportunities and job search
approaches.
this was a fantastic opportunity for our
tertiary students to get some valuable
advice and guidance to support them on
their journey. We are always really grateful
to outside agencies for their commitment
to helping our students.

Sixth Form
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Sixth Form Students Quiz Politicians

this term, the Sixth Form team were delighted to welcome Sir gary Streeter, Conservative MP, and luke Pollard,
labour MP, who had both kindly agreed to participate in Q & A sessions with the students via Microsoft teams.
these were much anticipated events and the Year 12 students had done their ‘homework’ thoroughly, having
planned numerous questions. the students assembled in the Sixth Form
common room and posed the questions from there, whilst the other Sixth Form
tutor groups listened or responded remotely via the chat.
Instrumental in facilitating the smooth running of the first event with
Sir gary Streeter was Year 13 student and head Boy, george Flay, who said,
“having been asked to chair the interview, my role was to follow up his
answers with supplementary questions and put forward the questions from
those who couldn’t make the Q & A session in person. the questions covered
topics including CoVID-19, climate change, race relations and Brexit, and
were answered by Mr Streeter with both the clarity and concision atypical of
a politician.”
After Sir gary Streeter discussed politics with students of the Sixth Form, it was
only fair to give such an opportunity to our local parliamentary opposition,
luke Pollard. Mr Pollard was presented with a similar set of questions to
Mr Streeter, with just some minor alterations to maintain applicability, and a
couple of additions on the topics of sexuality, gender and free speech.

Kim Daniel, Sixth Form Personal Development and Welfare leader commented,
“even though both of the Q & A sessions were held virtually via Microsoft teams,
the attention of the Year 12 students was unwavering. this is a testament to
how engaged and focused they were on both occasions. A big thank you to
both politicians as these experiences will now enable our Year 12 students to
compare answers from two different political parties on these key topics and
allow them to make up their own minds.”

the College would like to thank both Sir gary Streeter and luke Pollard for
giving up their time to speak to our students, we feel it is very important for their
voices to be heard, and both politicians recognised this. A big thank you also
to all students involved in the discussion for being so engaged and formulating
challenging questions.

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