High Achievers
For Oxbridge, Russell Group and Sutton 30 University Applicants.
WQE offers a unique programme to enable high-achieving students to be the best they can be, with a view to making successful applications to the most selective universities. This programme has two parts and is summarised as follows (students are free to apply to participate in one or both parts).
Part One: January to May of Year 1
This course is organised around interdisciplinary explorations of stimuli concepts, with a mixture of directed activities, independent research, and group discussion.
Students will have the opportunity to learn more about their favoured subject whilst developing an appreciation of interdisciplinary enquiry, considering the work of a range of thinkers and practitioners along the way.
Other features include skills workshops on reading, writing, and critical discourse, an off-campus visit to a site of interest (e.g. the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) and connections with former WQE students who went on to selective universities, including Oxbridge. By the end of the course students will have a richer and stronger capacity to critically engage with the world around them.
This will also be a valuable launchpad for supra-curricular learning, undertaking the EPQ, and participating in part two of the high achiever’s enrichment programme.
Part Two: September to December of Year 2
This course operates as a series of workshops with three inter-related objectives.
One, to enable high-achieving students to extend their academic interests and abilities within but also beyond their principal subject specialism. Two, to provide practical assistance and moral support at all stages of applying to Oxbridge, Russell Group and Sutton 30 universities.
Students will benefit from a pedagogical process that will enhance both their personal statements and performance in admissions tests and interviews. Three, to help prepare students to get the most out their experience of higher education.
High Achievers Summer Package: Super Curricular Resources
In the first instance, students should be working over the summer to consolidate and revise their A-level studies to ensure that they are able to meet or exceed their MTG, and this includes getting on with any NEA and/or EPQ work.
Thereafter, some targeted further reading and listening can foster curiosity and challenge you to develop stronger skills in understanding and analyzing complex extended prose that will aid your intellectual development ahead of applying to university. Students are encouraged to proactively seek academic sources from WQE’s LRC, the University library, Jstor, the BBC, etc. that align with their own interests. However, a few suggestions are provided below.
If you’re preparing an Oxbridge application and/or university admissions, you should have received separate advice and guidance from David Manning.
We encourage students and their parents/carers to engage with the resources below to support success at Level 3, university and beyond.