Extracts from personal statements by Year 13 students:

‘During the Sixth Form I have discussed the importance of managing my workload. I am interested in theatre and I chose to direct a school play and thoroughly enjoyed seeing the results of my hard work and dedication be a great success on performance night’.

‘I thoroughly enjoy experiencing new things such as the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, where I can work towards Gold Award and Millennium Volunteers through which I have completed 200 hours voluntary service’.

‘As an active and dedicated member of the school orchestra, choirs, senior strings and hand bell group, I consider myself to be a team player. As leader of the school orchestra and conductor of junior strings, I rely on my motivation and creativity to infl uence others’.

‘I am taking an AEA paper for English; an opportunity to expand on the normal curriculum and to explore texts to which I may otherwise not have been exposed’.

‘In my position as School Head Prefect I have had to organise and motivate other people, and to negotiate situations which would not normally occur, with patience and diligence as well as with a firm hand’.

‘I participated in the Young Enterprise Scheme as ICT Director of my company, which gave me an insight into the marketing and sales world which will be useful for developing products as an engineer’.

‘One important and relevant skill I learned, as a Year 7 Form Prefect, was being able to make children feel at home and secure in new and unfamiliar surroundings’.

‘As a Senior Prefect I have developed skills in managing a large group of people, working in teams of various sizes, taking direction from people more senior than me and listening and responding to guidance from others’.