All of my resources are priced at the minimum allowed by TES, they aren't trendy or earth shattering, they are a backbone to build the finesse onto, or, if it's period 7 on a Friday, you've got 300 reports still to write, a dozen UCAS references AND you need to set cover for a colleague who's sneezed twice and is off all week, they will serve well enough at an advanced FOFO level.
All of my resources are priced at the minimum allowed by TES, they aren't trendy or earth shattering, they are a backbone to build the finesse onto, or, if it's period 7 on a Friday, you've got 300 reports still to write, a dozen UCAS references AND you need to set cover for a colleague who's sneezed twice and is off all week, they will serve well enough at an advanced FOFO level.
This is a simple writing frame that I use to get pupils STARTED on the Personal Statement.
I find getting them going to be the hardest point- once they have stuff I can work with it, but frequently they don't get going (or bibble on about their passion and their character-developing Peruvian-nose-flute voluntourist trips to the amazon; frankly, that's just tedious- less passion, more penetration please).
So I wrote a really basic guide. It works well with all abilities as it's simple and clear. IT IS NOT FOR THE US THOUGH, they care much more about aforementioned Peruvian-nose-flute self development...
A lesson for middle school pupils to initiate independent research into which subjects they would need at IB in order to follow a particular career path.
Includes closed questions, open questions, pair-share activity and stimulus material for prep.
I use this as a data management tool to get the pupils taking responsibility for their applications.
I prefer pupils to fill in the columns in the table, so I just have to monitor the application via google docs.
A basic admin tool to get pupils taking responsibility for their university applications.
Fine for PSHE, for Mentor tutors, careers advisors etc etc.
I link to each pupil's page on a google document, that includes their Personal Statement framework, an excel document to manage applications and various commercially-available publications.
get the pupils doing more, so you only have to monitor.
Mainly for Careers advisors, but also useful for mentor tutors, it contains editable tools to skill-up pupils to research entry requirements, open days, deadlines write personal statements.
Includes activity for finding out about entrance requirements to uni across Europe and UK
Includes a tracking sheet that pupils use (stick it on a google drive and you can see it too)
Includes guidance on selecting courses- work experience, dangers of voluntourism etc
Includes PS writing frame (as above- upload to the cloud so you can edit).
Simple powerpoint that I use this as a template for parents days, staff inset and pupil assemblies.
All you need to do is add in the blanks...
It's designed to give an overview of the school set-up
Other resources available here- mainly science resources with some whole-school items.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulbold
For Mentor Tutors really, but can be formatted for parents or pupils (it's editable)
With the Brexit nightmare unfolding, European courses are MUCH more attractive/competitive (cheaper for starters, and with academics leaving the UK, this is a perfect opportunity for European unis such as ETH, to poach students and staff from Oxbridge and Imperial). Applications to Cambridge are down by 14% this year- those pupils have to go somewhere and they can't ALL go to Scotland or Ireland.
This is a simple guide produced to help advise pupils as to what permutations of subjects to take and the cost of study. I've written it for IB DP but the links will readily allow you to convert for A level or whatever you teach.
As it says on the tin- a checklist of things I would expect pupils to do before they go to an interview. Proper preparation and planning prevent pretty poor performance.
This is a piece that I wrote for the TES and that I issue to mentor tutors to help their tutees make choices about work experience.
It can be edited for your school, and even sent to parents.
This is something I write for Mts to keep them focussed on their responsibilities at this time of the year.
Includes links to guidance on applying to holland, the US, the UK etc, personal statement advice and is a good start for the inexperienced MT.
I keep track of all of the applications, personal statements and references through a google drive, but you can edit this to link in to whatever you want.
This is a brief over-view, a full presentation required an hour and staff were losing the will to live, so I have chopped it to the bare minimum that I think MTs should be doing.
This contains a little more information about the benefits of studying in Europe (principally cost) but also calibre of university via weblinks.
Obviously, Berxit is going to scupper a lot of these fee structures but it’s worth showing your pupils there is more than just English unis available.
It is editable and I use this as the framework for a letter to parents.
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This will help form tutors and careers advisors prepare your students for applying to university in the UK and beyond.
When you remember that unis in Europe are either free or low cost (e.g. Holland) and offer courses in ENGLISH its worth exploring.
My entire UCAS and EU university resources. There’s everything there to get your pupils thinking about applying to uni, and to guide them through the process. There is card matching game not at all similar to “Top Donalds” which, due to copyright, I need to point out the difference between an inferior card comparision game and my excellent resource, powerpoints, an editable excell table for viewing where the pupils are in the application cycle.
A comparison game not in any way similar to an aggressively copyrighted card matching game.
Use it to get your pupils researching about universities by filling in the fields and then comparing against their peers.
You can even throw in a few pre-prepared cards of your own for popular courses such as Law at Oxford, Medicine, PPE, Engineering and so on.
The fields are editable and the information can be found on the Universities own website, on UCAS, in Heap Degree course offers or in the Times/Guardian guides.
This is the simplest itineration so pupils have what I consider to be the essential information and you can edit it depending on the focus of your pupils (I normally include application deadlines, Open Day Dates and Visa requirements, number of students on campus and international: home student ratio).
Weblinks to help are… banned by the TES
