Looking to the Future
“I enjoyed the activities with the pilot. Guiding the planes as if you were air traffic control was great fun.” (Matthew A)
Following very successful events in previous years, our annual Year 6&7 Careers Morning took place on Monday. Volunteer parents and local businesses gave up their time to talk to pupils about their work and what is involved. A range of sectors included Engineering, Nursing, Biopharmaceutical Research, Commercial Pilot, Veterinary Surgeon, Gaming and Programming using AI and Film and Media Production.
There was a real buzz with pupils interacting with each session, taking part in activities such as becoming Air Traffic Controllers using a flight navigation system and finding out how Films and TV are created using AI and VR. Pupils found the morning very informative, with pupils saying that it was good to find out about lots of different career options. One pupil said they didn't realise how hard it was to navigate planes in the sky. Lots of pupils did decide they wanted to become pilots!
“I enjoyed learning about the brave college student who had survived an injury from a javelin from the nurse.” (Isaac B)
“It was interesting to listen to the veterinary surgeon describe treating unusual animals like a penguin!” (Anu S)
“The man from XR described using a dog to help him create movement for animations – I never would have guessed this was how it was achieved.” (Charlie S)
“The man who made medicines was an excellent speaker and it was very interesting to look at his model.” (Rory B)
We could not run this event without the support of volunteers, so thank you to all that contributed to a very successful morning. Should anyone wish to take part in any of our future events, please do get in touch - click here.
Last Friday, we were delighted to invite students from HSDC Havant and Oaklands School to join PGS pupils for a UCAT training day at PGS. The event was in collaboration with the Dr Mike King Trust. 5 PGS staff each ran a workshop on different sections of this challenging admissions test that all Medical and Dental students have to complete as part of their application for university places: Abstract Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Situational Judgement.
The students engaged really enthusiastically with the challenging content and worked very purposefully together, having to develop responses and judgements rapidly and accurately just as they will as medical practitioners. The students enjoyed meeting each other and working together. Thank you to HSDC and Oaklands for taking part.
