First Year A Level Students Look To Extend Their Academic Appeal

After picking up the A Level pace last term and completing a week of Mock examinations, our L6th is now very firmly looking to life beyond Bablake. For those seeking university places on competitive courses at the best academic institutions in the UK and abroad, a programme of extension lessons, which will run until December, has begun.

Those interested in Medicine and related areas have been quick off the mark and, as part of a series of guest speakers, yesterday former pupil Tom Calderbank, a 3rd year Medical student at theUniversity of Leicester, returned for a very well attended Medical Extension session.

Mrs Alison Learmont-Henry, Medical Extension co-ordinator, said: 'I am very grateful to Tom for coming in to talk to our medical applicants. He was a fantastic pupil and it was a pleasure to assist him with applying for Medicine. I hope that many of this year's cohort will be similarly successful!'

Next week, in PSHCE, the Bablake Careers department will be delivering a 'What Next?' talk, before visits from Gapforce andCoventry University. Later in the year, Alan Bullock, a national expert on Personal Statements and a Which?University contributor, will be one of a number of external speakers who will help advise our pupils with their future plans.