We use an external organisation to provide independent and qualified careers advice for our students. 
As students approach key decision points, they run group workshops for year 8s and personal guidance for year 10s. They also provide 1 to 1 careers advice sessions for some year 11s and students in other years who need extra support.

The Careers and Enterprise Company work with schools to improve their careers offering and they allocate schools an Enterprise Adviser to give a business viewpoint.  Our Enterprise Adviser has helped students with mock interviews, workplace visits and run workshops for us. Our Enterprise Adviser is from an IT company called FSP. 

Volunteers from Microsoft have been visiting IT, i-media and computing science lessons this year helping bring the curriculum for these topics to life 

Every year, the army visit the school to run Elite Skills activities for the students to help them develop communication, team work, and problem solving. 

Syngenta provide careers activities including workplace visits, and their volunteers also help with mock interviews

One of the leading providers of IT products and services, Ericsson run STEM activities for our students.  

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory provide the school with very exciting STEM activities which are highly rated by our girls

A leading provider of IT, networking and cybersecurity solutions, CISCO offer insights into the world of work.

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The University of Reading offer many outreach programmes. We are lucky to be strong partners in many of these already and hope to increase our participation going forward.

The Students in Schools project is a prominent part of Year 11 preparation in the lead up to their final exams, the university provide undergraduates studying a range disciplines to tutor our Year 11 girls on a small group basis, consisting of no more than 3 students. This has been highly commended by the Year 11s and they found the exposure to university students a further motivation for exams. 

The University Scholars Programme aims to target specific students who may not have considered attending university. It is a longitudinal exposure to many aspects of university and the benefits of going to university, and includes working with the University's student ambassadors and developing study skills. Every year a group of our Year 10 students engage in this project. The students say that it has given them an objective view on attending university and that they have learnt many things from the project.

Finally, the University outreach team run activities for Personal Development and STEM days, they provide speakers for subjects as part of our Deeper Applied Learning strategy, and arrange visits to the university for various year groups.

We also benefit from the support of many employers and organisations who visit on a more occasional basis, these include:

• Royal Holloway University, London, and other universities
• Royal Berkshire Hospital and the wider NHS
• VirginMedia
• Syngenta
• AWE
• Thames Water
• Reading Borough Council
• Visa
• Nat West
• STEM Net