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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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