Aiming High - St Dunstan's Oxford and Cambridge Support Programme

Aiming High Oxford and Cambridge Support Programme

ACADEMIC SEMINARS

An exciting programme of student-led seminars discussing thought-provoking topics. We encourage you to think out loud, answer difficult questions, be open to new perspectives, and to gain confidence in explaining your thought processes.

You can present on any topic. Here are some example questions that you could explore in more depth:

• Do you think Feminism is over?

• Should poetry be difficult to understand?

• If I were to visit the area where you live, what would I be interested in?

Oxford and Cambridge Support Programme

INTENSE SUPPORT PROGRAMME

Following a one-to-one Personal Statement consultation at the start of term, we will support you in the following ways as you prepare to complete your application by the end of September:

• Weekly personal statement progress checks

• Support from a subject expert teacher

• Mock entrance exams

OXBRIDGE

PREPARATION SERIES

This series will give you all the information you need to answer questions such as: “how does the application process work?”, “what are the universities like?”, “how do I choose a subject or college?”, and more.

Week 1 Why Oxford or Cambridge?

Week 2 Colleges, Faculties and Societies

Week 3 Developing your interest and passion

Week 4 Exploring the interview

Week 5 One-to-one subject consultations

Week 6 Writing your Personal Statement with Oxbridge in mind

Week 7 Entrance exam preparation

Week 8 Making the most of your summer

• Model interviews

• Internal and external mock interviews

What St Dunstan’s offers:

The Universities of Cambridge and Oxford are the oldest and most famous seats of learning in the country. To gain entrance is not a magic trick: the admissions process is run by respected academics who have behind them over 1000 years’ experience of picking the brightest and best students from across the world.

Successful students are academically curious, passionate about their subject areas, ambitious and willing to think in different ways. The Oxbridge Programme at St Dunstan’s will:

• Provide students with information about the universities and demystify the process

• Develop students’ abilities to think in different ways, to accept academic challenge, and to express their thoughts out loud

• Support them with personal statement writing, further reading, entrance exam preparation and the interview

• Provide subject expert mentoring to support all of the above

Oxbridge Coordinator

Oxbridge Coordinator, Tom Scambler, studied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge where he specialised particularly in Geometry, Groups and Analysis.

He has taught Mathematics, and occasionally Computer Science, for nearly 10 years, and has taught at St Dunstan’s for five of those, during which time he has run Go Club, Coding Club, Hans Woyda and Maths Masterclass. He is also a member of the Sixth Form team and is currently Head of Year.

For more information, please email tscambler@sdmail.org.uk