We’ve arrived at what is most commonly known as the ‘Summer Term’ without seeing an ounce of sunshine! Fear not, HEON is here to brighten up your term with our regular insight into the goings on at the Partnership and what’s upcoming!

The past few months have been crammed with activity, we were extremely excited to be able to support the delivery alongside Royal Holloway University of London of the Spring University Residential which saw around 60 students from a number of our partner schools attend 3 days of IAG, outreach and subject tasters during the Easter break. The feedback has been excellent from staff and students and we look forward to working in this capacity alongside University of Surrey on the HEON Discover Summer School in the summer holidays.

The month of March saw us working closely with The Matthew Arnold School, where we helped deliver a variety of sessions for one of their drop down days. We worked across the whole of year 9 delivering sessions ranging from business enterprise to engineering, all with a huge interactive element including the construction of the students own bridges and boats in a race against the clock to sales pitching to our very own dragons den.

May saw the whole HEON team out delivering at Collingwood College for the Pupil Premium Conference, this was a fantastic event which saw 60 handpicked pupil premium students taking part in a carousel event including sessions based around STEM, career pathways in sport to hair & beauty. This was a fantastic opportunity for students to gain an understanding about potential future career pathways and what is available to them.

During March and April, HEON delivered a 4-week progressive programme to a group of 45 refugee and asylum seeking young people from 11 different nationalities. The programme took place at Brooklands College and focused on supporting ESOL students with their employment and education progression. Students participated in activities which developed teamwork and communication, practised identifying and writing about their hard and soft skills and filling out sections of an application form. The programme also provided information relating to UK education pathways and next steps and closed with a wellbeing resin craft session.

Following on from the 4-week programme, the same group of students were invited to attend a 3-day masterclass based at the University of Surrey in April. Students took part in Maths and English masterclasses, an engineering island taster activity and enjoyed the opportunity to explore the campus and get a feel for university life. 

On top of all of the mentioned activity, we’ve had some additional delivery ranging from general revision skill sessions to subject specific revision sessions with a fantastic external deliverer, Will Rigby. Thanks to Will for delivering at Hoe Valley School, Chertsey High School, Collingwood College and Alderwood School.

We’ve also kicked off two new programmes for this academic year; ‘Foresight’ with year 9 & 10 at Fernhill School and ‘Raising Aspirations’ at Cove School – good luck to both schools and their students taking part in those.

If you would like to discuss any of the activities above then please feel free to get in touch with your allocated Partner Officer or Nathan Simpson directly.

What’s UPCOMING?

More information and the application form can be found here: https://www.uca.ac.uk/study-at-uca/outreach/arts-award/

The deadline for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 19 June 2023.

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