Guiding Sixth Form Applicants

Once, occasionally twice, in some days during the months of January and February, students in year eleven from other schools who were thinking about applying to the Ashcroft Sixth Form the following year would come to ask questions and have a tour of the Sixth Form block often with their parents. As an IB student also doing A levels I was very often asked to guide the visitors and answer any questions that they had. These questions were usually about my courses, the school and how it is organised, how I cope with the subjects, their difficulty, and other questions similar to these. This was useful for CAS because I had increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth by giving tours of the school. I also considered the ethical implications of my actions like being a good representative of the school and presenting to the children and their parents effectively, it also allowed me to become a thinker, a communicator, principled, caring.

This was a challenge for me because there is quite a bit of pressure when having to guide someone through something that would be responsible for their future education although being honest and clear with my answers the their questions helped me to overcome this.

My aims were to effectively guide applicants and their parents around the Sixth Form area and convince them that it is a good sixth form that the student would want to go to in addition to responding to any questions that they had about the sixth form and any questions that they had about the A level and IB courses that I am doing.

Doing ths activity was SERVICE because I was volunteering to act as a guide for visiting students whenever my Head of Year needed me to.

Overall it was nice to meet future students and see how nice they all were. I have seen many of the children that I guided in the new lower Sixth Form year (so I hope that means I guided them well) and they are all very nice and friendly.