1. Y13 Parent Information Evening
Thursday 20th September 6.30 – 7.30pm
UCAS Update and overview
Apprenticeships Update and overview

2. This evening Additional: Apprenticeships –Ms. Fiona Farmer
Who’s who? – The College Team
Key Dates – Autumn Term
Top Tips – How to succeed this year? Private study/ folders
UCAS, where should applications be up to? - Updates and reminders
UCAS Short-Term – Autumn Term
UCAS Long-Term – An overview of the rest of the year
Accommodation and Student Finance – In brief
UCAS – Results Day, August 2017
Additional: Apprenticeships –Ms. Fiona Farmer

3. Who’s Who? The College Team
Mrs. Sarah Fox
Head of College
Mr. Spencer Lawrence
Y13 Destinations
Miss Philippa Coates
Y13 Achievement
Ms. Shelley Challoner
Pastoral Lead
Mr Adam Elliott
Y12 Achievement
Year 13
Year 12

4. Key Dates Autumn Term
Deadline for the Y13 bursary applications Friday 21st September
 Thursday 20th September 2018
Y13 Parent Information Evening
 Tuesday 25th September 2018
Parent-Mentor Review Day
 Monday 29th October –
Friday 2nd November 2018
 October Half Term week
Monday 19th November – Friday 23rd November 2018
Y13 First formal assessment week

5. How to succeed this year?
1. Attendance
2. Homework
3. Private Study
4. Course boosters
5. Year 12 lessons
6. Destination

6. Private study
Students have selected 6 studies per week for private study.
They have to use their fob to register their attendance.
We have done this to help structure some more of their free time.

7. Insight instead of planners
Reminder
1) You can access Insight from any device with an internet connection by visiting the web page this includes mobile phones and tablets. If you don’t wish to use your own data plan you can connect via WiFi to the “TAG-BYOD” SSID whilst on the school premises – The password is toothill2016.
2) To log onto Insight you will use your normal system username as password. The username will take the format of 12InitialSurname for example: 12JBloggs.
3) To make a shortcut on your mobile phone:
For Android users: Browse to the website
There should be three vertically aligned dots in the upper right corner with an option of ‘Add to home screen’ being one of them.
For Apple users: Browse to the website
At the bottom of the screen, there should be an icon depicting an arrow that looks like it’s trying to get away from a square. This should open the option of ‘Add to home screen’ which is the final step.

8. What’s going to change?
You will keep a folder for each subject with all your notes AND assessments in.
This will be YOUR responsibility and not your teachers.
This folder will be inspected by the following people every half term:
- Your mentor
- Your subject teacher
- Potentially a member of the college leadership team.

9. Changes to KS5 folders

10. What will they look like?

11. This page will be filled in by you after each assessment

12. This is the page that will be checked regularly

13. Why make this change?
It gives students the responsibility for all of their own things just like they are at University.
It allows them to have all of their feedback in one place to help them with their revision.

14. Things to be aware of… (this is what the students have been told!)
If you lose it, it is entirely YOUR responsibility and you may be required to start your folder again from scratch.
If your mentor, your teacher or a member of the college team deem your folder unorganised you will be booked into an after school session on a Wednesday to sort it out.
Failure to keep on top if class work will be picked up quickly by staff BUT it is always your responsibility to catch up.

15. How they will be checked
Set up
You will need to buy a folder that you can use for each subject (we recommend a smaller day to day folder and a folder you can keep at home like a ring binder).
You will be given covering sheets by your subject teachers.
Inspections
Subject teacher: Each half term students will be required to bring in their larger folders for inspection by the subject teacher. In class we ask that you set the class off on a task and go through the folders briefly checking things are where they need to be and everything is filled in.
Mentor: The following week, mentors will check the folders for a second time ensuring any actions you stated have been followed up on, they will sign the folder off for that half term if they are happy.

16. What happens if your folder isn’t being organised and looked after correctly?
The mentor will flag up any folders that aren’t meeting the standard to the CLT.
These students will be automatically booked in to an after school detention for a member of the CLT to check.
The student will repeat detentions weekly until the standard is met.

18. How to succeed this year?
1. Attendance
2. Homework
3. Private Study
4. Course boosters
5. Year 12 lessons
6. Destination

19. University - Where should applications be up to? Updates and reminders
Logged on.
University courses uploaded.
Subject references requested.
Personal statements started.
This is our internal system, used for:
Gathering information
Writing drafts of personal statements and UCAS references

20. UCAS – Where should applications be up to? Updates and reminders
All students have had:
Personal statement – introduction and basic facts
Personal statement top tips – including from university admissions tutors
Personal statement ‘ideas generator’
Personal statement exemplars – including in courses related to those they are applying
Personal statement self-check and peer-check sheet
Dedicated mentor time to personal statements

21. UCAS – Where should applications be up to? Updates and reminders
Who to complete?
Please complete:
Staff initial
Student
My overall AS result in this subject was:
 N/A
(If necessary) The grades I achieved in different modules were:
My concrete strategy for improving this grade this year is:
Tutor
Based on the evidence above, I believe it is appropriate for this student to discuss the possibility of changing the initial predicted grade with their subject teacher.
Subject teacher
I have read the paragraph at the top of this form, and understand that this grade will be for the entire A2 Level, and not only for my module.
Based on all the evidence above, do you truly believe this student has the capacity to achieve a higher grade than initially predicted?
 YES / NO
If you have answered ‘YES’, please indicate the predicted grade you will support:
SGR / TOM / TRA / LCH
I have reviewed all of the information, and am happy to approve a change to the predicted grade on the spreadsheet in the Achievement Director office (and initial it!)
Predicted Grades
Discussed with
Mentors
Subject teachers
College Team
Where appropriate, linked to an assessment.

22. UCAS – Where should applications be up to? Updates and reminders
Choice of university courses 5
We recommend: 1 Aspirational 2-3 Status Quo At least 1 Back-up

23. UCAS – Where should applications be up to? Updates and reminders
Registered.
Begun completing the following sections.
Personal Details
Choices
Education
Employment
Be getting ready to upload the final draft of:
Statement (Personal Statement)
Before the final send:
View all details
Pay/send
This is the external system, used for:
Official final applications to university courses.
£18 – Single
£24 - Multiple

24. UCAS – Short-Term Autumn Term
The two-week rule
Internal College Deadline
External UCAS Deadline
Friday 5th October: Internal College deadline for medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine/science and Oxford and Cambridge applications.
Monday 15th October (6pm)
Application deadline for medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, veterinary science and Oxford and Cambridge.
Friday 7th December (1 weeks before Christmas holidays): Final internal College deadline for all university applications.
Tuesday 15th January 2019 (6pm)
Application deadline for all courses except those above and Art and Design courses.
Monday 25th February 2019
UCAS Extra opens

25. How does the application process work?
Stage 1:
Student registers, logs on, completes, thoroughly checks and
submits their half of their UCAS application.
This includes completing all sections and copying and pasting their personal statement from its final draft on TCAS.
In order to submit their UCAS application, the student must PAY AND SEND
– this is the final section which can only be completed once all the above have been completed first.

26. How does the application process work?
Stage 1:
Student registers, logs on, completes, thoroughly checks and
submits their half of their UCAS application.
Stage 2:
It is only at this point that the application comes through to your mentor.
Your mentor then still needs to:
- Check each UCAS application in case they can spot any mistakes.
Confirm and add in your predicted grades.
Write, check and upload your UCAS reference.
Each mentor has applications to process.
Due to this additional workload, your application should be sent on within two weeks of you submitting it to us, without error.

27. What if there are errors on the application?
This is nothing to worry about, but it will delay the process.
The application can be sent back to you, and you can then log on to make changes.
Once you have done this, you can resubmit – but don’t worry, you will not have to pay again.
The application can be bounced back and forward between you and your mentor as many times as it takes but this will delay the date your application is sent off.
Your application will be sent within two weeks of it being submitted without error.
The ultimate responsibility for the state of your side of the application is yours.

28. How does the application process work?
Stage 1:
Student registers, logs on, completes, thoroughly checks and
submits their half of their UCAS application.
Stage 2:
Mentors then:
Check each UCAS application in case they can spot any mistakes.
Confirm and add in your predicted grades.
Write, check and upload your UCAS reference.
Stage 3:
The entire UCAS application will be checked – briefly – one final time.
It will then be sent off officially to UCAS.
Once it is sent, it cannot be returned – any mistakes at this point and you will need to contact UCAS or university admissions officers directly to see if they will be willing to accept any changes from you this way.

29. UCAS – Long-Term An overview of the rest of the year
Receiving offers
Being invited to interview
Replying to offers

30. UCAS – Long-Term An overview of the rest of the year
Receiving offers
Universities begin making offers as soon as you send your application off – they do not wait until after the 15th January final deadline.
This is why we recommend an earlier deadline than January. There is no need to worry about it – there are plenty of spaces – but we advise you to get your application to us by the end of October so it can go off sometime in November so you are not applying right at the end of the cycle.
You cannot reply to any of your offers, however, until you receive responses from all universities.
Don’t worry here – there is no rush to hear back from them all, and no correlation between when you hear back and whether you are successful – all universities and courses work in different ways.

31. UCAS – Long-Term An overview of the rest of the year
Interviews
Universities may ask you to interview.
There is no definitive list of universities or courses that do or don’t decide to do this – they can choose as they wish for each application.
They will let you know via UCAS Track (your log on) so you need to be checking this regularly.
If you need to reschedule an interview, you need to contact the university directly to do this.
When they do request an interview with you, they can sometimes give quite short notice - it can be as little as a week. It is for this reason we run the interview programme throughout Autumn Term so everyone is already having current interview practice in case they are called.

32. This is the most important thing on this whole pp
Replying to offers?
When you have received all your offers, you can reply – via UCAS Track - to them with the following responses:
Type of reply
First choice
Second choice 1
Unconditional Firm
N/A 2
Conditional Firm
Conditional Insurance 3
Unconditional Insurance 4
Decline all
IMPORTANT:
Don’t accept an unconditional offer unless you want to go to that university – I know it is flattering, but you need to be happy wherever you are for three years.
ENSURE your firm choice has HIGHER entry requirements than your insurance.
This is the most important thing on this whole pp

33. UCAS – Accommodation and Student Finance In brief
Once students accept their university offers, they can begin to think about:
Applying for student finance
Applying for accommodation at their first-choice university
These topics are covered within the Y13 Mentor programme, and there is a further Y13 Parent Information Evening in Spring Term on Student Finance.
Recommended websites:
University websites for further information on accommodation

34. UCAS – Results Day August 2019 Clearing
On Results Day, many students across the country will not receive the results of their first or second choice, which means these universities will have these places spare.
These universities put their spare places onto the UCAS site from Results Day onwards – any student can then ring up with their final results to see if that university would be willing to take them instead.
Clearing can definitely be very successful for students – as long as you are willing to be a little flexible; HOWEVER, it should not be depended on.

35. UCAS – Results Day August 2019 Adjustment
On Results Day, some students across the country will exceed the results of their firm choice.
UCAS offers an excellent service here – it allows you to keep your firm choice but ‘shop around’ on courses with higher entry requirements.
You can then ring these universities to see if they will take you on their course with your new higher grades; if they accept, you can then decline your original first choice and go to the one with higher entry requirements instead.
This means there is never any risk of you missing out if you do better than your predicted grades!

36. Post 18 Pathways

37. What are my options?
Apprenticeship
GAP Year
Employment
University

38. What is an apprenticeship?
On the job training
Gain qualifications – up to degree level
Gain real life work experience
Employment on completion
Salary – from £10,000 - £25,000
Paid holiday
Zero Debt
Chance to try out a job
A great alternative to University

39. What is on offer? 520 different types of apprenticeships
4 levels of apprenticeships:
Intermediate = 5 GCSE’s
Advanced = 2 A Levels
Higher = Level 4 Foundation Degree
Degree = Level 6/7 Degree/Masters
Annual salary of £10,000 - £25,000
Commitment of 1-4 years

40. Government Target of 3m by 2020
Banking
Engineering
Digital Technical
Legal
Construction
Accountancy IT
Laboratory Science
Energy
Management PR

41. Degree apprenticeships
The following Universities offer Degree apprenticeships:
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Warwick
Sheffield Hallam
University of Exeter
Bristol University
Aston University
Nottingham Trent University
Derby University

42. What employers offer apprenticeships?
IBM
Jaguar Landrover BT
BBC/ITV
Astrazenca
EDF
Virgin Trains
Nestle
Glaxo Smith Kline
British Sugar

43. Who Offers Higher Level Apprenticeships?
Civil Service – Fast Track Apprenticeship
Nationwide
Higher level apprenticeships
Business, Commercial, Financial, Digital Technology and Project Delivery
2 year Level 4 apprenticeship
5 GCSE’s A*-C and 2 A Levels
Digital Technology require 2 A Levels in STEM subjects
Starting salary of £19,500

44. Who Offers Higher Level Apprenticeships?
Boots – Future Leaders Programme
Based in Nottingham
18 years + Future Leaders Programme
2 year Higher Level apprenticeship
Brand development, Buying, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, IT
Could lead to a Degree Level apprenticeship
They also offer a 4 year apprenticeship in Engineering too
Starting salary of £15,000

45. Who Offers Higher Level Apprenticeships?
Price Cooper Waterhouse
Nationwide.
Study for a Professional Qualification Business and Finance.
They look for a strong academic background.
They offer apprenticeships in: Assurance, Consulting, Tax and Deals
Good starting salary – min £15,000.

46. What do employers look for?
A passion for their business – do your research.
Leadership skills
Work experience, travelling, part time work – get as many experiences as possible before applying.
An excellent attitude to work.
Ability to work as part of a team.

47. GAP Year If you are not sure and need time to think?
Employment – hospitality
Travel – work in another country
Volunteer
Private tutor – do you excel in a subject? Could you private tutor for a year – talk to your teachers
GAP year programmes – IBM
GAP year programmes - overseas

48. What do I do next?
Its important that all Year 13 have a plan in place.
Mr Lawrence will support with University applications.
Mrs Farmer will support students who are interested in apprenticeships, GAP year or are not sure what to do.
1-1 Advice and Guidance Interviews are available to support you with transition to your next destination.

49. How to find out more
Useful websites: Websites of large companies – they advertise their own!