"There is a real advantage gained being a leader in a school, being at the top of your Prep School and also being in a place that has a rich co-curricular programme..."
It was great to welcome Phil Mann from Wellington College on Friday to speak to our parents about the broader senior school admissions process and the benefits of a Year 9 entry.
We feel very strongly about the benefits of Years 7 and 8 in a Prep School at St George's School Windsor Castle, which is why, under Henry Knight's incredible leadership (with two headships underpinning his experience), our Senior Prep Faculty has been a real focus for us.
Not least because the young children in our schools need to develop a very specific set of skills to adapt to disruptive workplaces and a consistency of global change when they leave school in the next 15 years.
A large piece of work by the World Economic Forum, 'Future of Jobs Report 2023' sets out the skills needed. 83 international companies from 45 economies contributed to this report. In a world where the only consistency is change, the following skills are seen as the most important:
Analytical thinking
Creative thinking
Resilience
Flexibility and agility
Empathy
Social influence
Active listening
My combining our High Performance Learning Advanced Cognitive Attributes and values, attitudes and attributes, with our Pre-Senior Baccalaureate assessment framework, alongside the philosophy of the International Baccalaureate, our Years 7 and 8 programme empowers students to think deeply about these skills.
There is evidence that very young children are starting to hit key developmental milestones later. If this is the case, and they 'grow up' (or think they do) much younger a few years later, then there is a precious window to develop these skills within a nurturing setting where mistakes can be made and true growth and confidence realised.
Amidst the complexity of educating for the future, IAPS schools are well placed to nurture these 'real world ready; skills, and this includes Years 7 and 8 - where our students not only think deeply, but begin to test them out as young leaders.
Thank you to Phil Mann, Director of Admissions at Wellington College, for joining us this morning to provide such a comprehensive overview of the application and selection process at Wellington. A destination for a third of our Year 8 students in 2023.
Thank you also to Henry Knight, our Head of Senior Prep and Student Performance, for providing an overview of our excellent Senior Prep faculty - the ideal preparation for senior schools such as Wellington, and beyond.
As Phil said, "There is real advantage in being a leader in a school, being at the top of the school and also to being in a place which has a rich co-curricular programme … our St George’s students are definitely not shy of getting up early and getting stuck into everything on offer at Wellington.”
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