Academic excellence through pathways

appropriate to the individual

Challenging expectations of attendance,

discipline and achievement

Rigorous monitoringand

communication with home

Excellent standards ofteaching by

experienced and expertstaff

Care, guidance and supportof each student as

an individual

• What we will do to support your son/daughter

• What you can do to support your son/daughter

Our support for your son/daughter

• Environment to encourage study• Tutor Group– Tutorial Programme– Marist Values– Study

• Tutor monitoring• Subject monitoring• Subject support

Parents’ evenings 2012-2013

• A – L: Thursday 8 November• M – Z: Thursday 15 November

• All Year 12: Wednesday 27 March

Reporting

• Monitoring via Firefly• Reports

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– k.rice@stmarysblackburn.ac.uk

• Come to the parents’ evenings• Check Firefly every week

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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…

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!

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)

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

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