Student Futures

We are committed to providing a comprehensive Student Futures programme embedded throughout the senior school and sixth form. The programme adheres to the gatsby benchmarks, ensuring that our students are well informed and prepared for lifelong success.  

We run a vibrant programme of lunchtime careers events throughout the year, with four sessions each term. These talks feature professionals from a wide range of industries who visit the school to speak in depth about their career journeys, the realities of their roles, and the pathways pupils can take into similar fields. In addition, each February we host our annual Student Futures Evening, a flagship event that brings together representatives from over 40 different career areas, alongside a number of universities, including Oxbridge and Russell Group institutions, giving pupils and families the opportunity to explore future options, ask questions, and gain first-hand insight into both career and higher education pathways.

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At Claremont, careers education and the skills needed for the future, such as teamwork, creativity, and communication, are embedded into our PSHE curriculum from Year 7 onwards. Pupils are introduced to the Unifrog platform and are supported to record their skills, experiences, and achievements throughout their academic journey. Through PSHE lessons, pupils regularly review their strengths, interests, skills, qualities, and values, and analyse how these transfer to the workplace, while also learning about different types and patterns of work. In Year 8, pupils are given dedicated time to explore how their GCSE subject choices align with potential career pathways. In Years 10 and 11, this learning is further developed as pupils explore future options in more depth, including A levels, apprenticeships, and university pathways, helping them to make informed and confident decisions about their next steps. 

Students engage in meaningful work experience to develop their understanding and skills in the workplace. Experiences include work shadowing, internships and volunteering opportunities. 

Pupils are able to connect and with alumni through Claremont Connect, often gaining valuable work experience and industry insight. 

Students are well prepared to make applications to universities in the UK, US and internationally and achieve fantastic offers across a breadth of subject areas. Students experience on-going one-to-one guidance meetings with the Higher Education Coordinator. Students have personal Unifrog accounts, used from Year 7 upwards for early career exploration, profiling and higher education applications.  

Pupils also receive high quality university admissions test mentoring via Oxford Tutors, delivered online by graduates from Oxford and Cambridge. 

Students benefit from the expertise of our Student Futures team within our designated hub. Sixth form students are allocated UCAS subject contacts for tailored guidance on personal statement writing and their overall applications. The student futures team ensure that parents are involved in their child’s exploration of future careers, training and higher education. Bespoke guidance is given on effective GCSE and A Level subjects and combinations. 

Pupils applying to Oxbridge and other prestigious institutions are assigned subject mentors who guide them through course selection, personal statement writing, interview and admissions test preparation and super-curricular advice and feedback. Mentors cover all subject areas including medicine, law, STEM, humanities, social sciences and the arts.

Students receive offers from a broad range of destinations including Oxbridge, Imperial, Edinburgh and various top-tier US universities. Students apply for a vast range of subjects from fine art, to environmental sciences, PPE, neuroscience and fashion design. This breadth reflects our fantastically able and diverse sixth form students. Students also gain apprenticeships in a broad range of sectors from finance to construction and receive mock interview, skills test and CV writing support.  

Click the link below to view a full list of our university destinations:

University destinations

The Future Ready Award Scheme is unique to Claremont and aims to build informed, reflective, and confident pupils who are better prepared to make future career choices. It encourages pupils to actively engage with careers education through attendance at lunchtime speaker events and the annual Student Futures evening. Progress through the 3 levels of the award scheme is recognised through certificates, badges, assemblies, and prize draws.

Students apply for and gain offers at highly competitive courses at prestigious institutions including Oxbridge and medicine. All Oxbridge applicants have a mentor and meet regularly to develop their critical thinking and academic skills, vital for interview preparation. Applicants for top tier universities also attend weekly critical thinking sessions with the Oxbridge coordinator. Students requiring admissions tests receive tutoring from externally provided tutors online, all of whom are Oxbridge graduates.