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Student Bulletin 02 December 2024
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WoodhousePlus
Woodhouse Plus is our extensive and diverse extracurricular programme, offering a wide range of additional courses you can take alongside your A levels. You can build your skills, build your career or build your qualifications.
WOODHOUSE PLUS + SKILLS
These courses are designed to develop skills you can use in a range of situations. Employers always seek people who can do things well, whether it is teamwork, solving problems, listening or organising.
Types of courses offered in recent years have included:
Hunting for Planets
Use your computer skills to hunt for planets.
Debating / mock trials
Learn how to debate, build strong arguments and spot how people try to persuade you.
Part-time work
Register your part-time work and use this time to develop your employability skills.
Musical theatre
Contribute to a musical production and learn performance, management and team skills.
Creative courses
Creative writing, gardening and wellbeing, air dry clay, drawing academy, Online publication workshop.
Choir/Orchestra
Be part of the woodhouse choir/orchestra
MS Office Skills
Improve your MS Excel and word skills
Student Investors
Students work in teams to invest a virtual amount of money in a share portfolio of FTSE companies
Maths Mentoring
Share your expertise by mentoring GCSE students who are learning maths.
UK Linguistics Olympiad
Be coached in all things linguistic so that you can enter this prestigious competition.
Event Organisation
Work together to organise the Woodhouse Talent Show
WOODHOUSE PLUS
+ CAREERS
This is for you if you already know the direction you want to head in after Woodhouse. It includes courses designed to make your career choice more accessible to you. You will learn about the area you are interested in, the range of possible careers and how to access top degree courses.
Medicine Academy
Learn how to get onto medicine courses and become a doctor.
Art / Architecture
Academy Develop the portfolio you need to access art or architecture courses for a creative career.
Chemistry Academy
Learn how scientists think by devising and carrying out experiments.
Maths Academy
Develop your maths or physics problem solving at the highest levels so you can compete with the best.
Oxbridge Academy
Build your intellect and capacity to apply successfully for the most demanding university courses.
Law Academy
Develop your understanding of legal career possibilities and equip yourself to apply for them as well as law degrees.
History Academy
Develop your skills as a critical historian by immersing yourself in some of the past’s deepest questions.
Career Ready (business)
Follow a programme supported by employers which includes visits, mentoring, workshops and an internship.
Biology Olympiad
Challenges and stimulates students with an interest in biology to expand and extend their talents.
WOODHOUSE PLUS + QUALIFICATIONS
These are additional courses that you can study alongside your A levels. Maybe you want to learn about something very individual so might consider the EPQ. Maybe you would like to take a high level online course, or challenge yourself by doing the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
EPQ (Extended Project Qualification)
Design and research a project on more or less anything that is interesting and that takes you into ‘new territory’.
MOOC
Take a Massive Open Online Course. There are thousands to choose from.
Duke of Edinburgh (Silver or Gold)
Develop in a rounded way through volunteering, physical activity and the famous expedition.
A fourth A level
If you are already taking four subjects, this counts for Woodhouse Plus and you would not be expected to do more… but you can.
Improve your grade at GCSE Maths
Maths may not be your first love, but this is chance to get expert tuition and try to improve on your GCSE grade to strengthen future applications.
A level courses
What can I study?
Progression from year 12 to year 13
Woodhouse Plus