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Reports and College Activities OUTREACH Katharine Wiggell Schools Liaison, Outreach and Recruitment Officer At Queen’s, we want to make sure that we are attracting applications from the best and brightest students, regardless of their social or economic background. The outreach work the College undertakes aims to help young people – typically from backgrounds not traditionally significantly represented at Oxford – to develop the confidence, skills and knowledge they need to make an application to highly selective universities. We work with schools from all over the country; however, through the University’s Regional Outreach Strategy, Queen’s provides the first point-of-contact for schools in regions in the North West of England (Cumbria, Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen), as well as the London Boroughs of Lewisham and Sutton. Most of our outreach work is therefore aimed at students attending state secondary schools in these areas. Where possible, we prioritise working with those schools and colleges that have not seen a large number of their students progress to highly selective universities in recent years. We offer visits to Queen’s, allowing students the chance to experience life here on day trips or residential programmes, and I also visit students in their local area to run talks and workshops. We also enjoy collaborating with others to deliver sustained contact programmes, such as the Lewisham Oxbridge Programme, which we run in partnership with Lewisham Council and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. The start of the 2019-20 academic year was busy, with the usual visits to schools and colleges in our link regions. We focused our provision in Michaelmas term on working primarily with Sixth Formers: giving ‘Demystifying Oxbridge’ talks to Year 12 students and their supporters and advising them on ways to engage with their subject throughout the course of the year, and also delivering ‘Admissions Advice’ sessions to Year 13 students as they prepared to send off UCAS applications and prepped for their upcoming interviews. We were really pleased to see some familiar faces when it came to the December admissions round, with students who had attended the previous Open Days Plus and North West Science Residential being invited for interview. (Some of them will be starting their studies at Oxford in October 2020!) Hilary term began with a number of in-house visits from link schools, as well as a couple of trips to the North West for me, to speak at the Cumbria Student Conference in Workington and to visit schools in the surrounding area with my Cambridge counterpart from Fitzwilliam College. Throughout the year, work continued behind 38 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
the scenes with colleagues at Corpus Christi, Pembroke and St Peter’s to develop a new programme of Outreach provision targeted at state schools and colleges in the North West. Whilst plans for a launch road-trip to the area in the summer months of 2020 unfortunately had to be postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are hopeful that the Oxford for North West programme will be able to commence soon, and we can foster new relationships with students and educators. Plans for UCAS Fairs and our North West Science Residential unfortunately had to be cancelled as we approached the Easter vacation and the UK went into lockdown. As a result of the pandemic, we had to rethink our support for schools, and digital events and resources replaced long train rides to our link regions to deliver in-person workshops and talks. We added to our bank of online resources, sharing supercurricular suggestions with students on social media, and creating a College tour video which was extremely popular during the Oxford University Virtual Open Days on 1 and 2 July 2020. During Michaelmas and Hilary, I had worked with our Head of Communications, Emily Downing, on a new video with local company, Angel Sharp Productions, which also proved popular when released in Trinity, amassing over 2,000 views so far. The video, entitled ‘Words to know before coming to Oxford University’ went through some of Oxford’s more unusual vocabulary – such as Collections, JCR, Porters, and many more – that may confuse some applicants. It also showed our students in their natural habitat, whether partying in the Beer Cellar after the Oxmas Formal, studying in the Library, or relaxing in the JCR. Reports and College Activities Katharine filming the tour of College, with undergraduate Mukahang Limbu College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 39
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