Leeds to Success

Year 7s begin the programme in the summer term with three interactive workshops, delivered in your school. These sessions provide an introduction to university and encourages your students to explore the benefits of higher education. 

In workshop two, our student ambassadors will visit your school to share their educational journey and experiences with your learners, promoting the idea that university is for everyone.

We will also launch our parents and carers programme, delivering an in-school evening session to introduce them to the programme, the opportunities available and what their child will gain from participating.

In the autumn term Year 8 students will get one in school interactive workshop which focuses on student life. Through this theme the idea of university courses are introduced to students, giving them the opportunity to understand what it means to study a subject in higher education and how this can relate to future careers, as well as what a day in the life of a student might look like.

Students will then visit the university in the Spring term for a higher education experience day where they will be introduced to an exciting range of university subjects and explore the campus with our student ambassadors.

Schools can choose to supplement the year 8 programme with a range of optional taster lecture sessions that are available to be booked.

Students will have the opportunity to meet researchers from the University and take part in a ‘Researchers in the Spotlight’ project. This project involves student led group work to create their own research focused poster presentation. They will be supported by our Research Skills team who will introduce them to core research skills and explore how these will help their current learning and future studies.

In the summer term, students will visit the campus for a celebration event. Here they will present their research project to our wider university community to foster a sense of belonging. As part of the day they will also work get to explore our campus further and take part in a taster session delivered in one our lecture theatres. 

We will focus on building your students’ transferable skills, helping them to understand how they are used in different careers. We deliver five in-school workshops during the autumn term. These focus on the skills of communication, confidence, leadership, teamwork, and entrepreneurship.

Each session builds on the skills from the previous workshop and the scheme of work incorporates oracy, numeracy and literacy skills within its activities to help students relate their learning to the wider school curriculum.

Delivered in the autumn term, our Year 11 programme is designed to support students in their final year of GCSEs (or equivalent).  Three sessions will be delivered in school and cover areas such as revision skills, note taking, exam anxiety and time management.

We will host a Leeds to Success ‘graduation’ event on campus for all those who have completed our programme. Students, teachers and parents will be invited to take part. As part of this event we will introduce the University’s post-16 outreach provision such as Leeds Futures.