The School for Cross-Faculty Studies are running an exciting competition for Year 12 Students on the topic of Global Sustainable Development (GSD). Entrants choose to answer one of three possible questions on important GSD issues. This competition wants to attract students with a broad of skills and strengths, as such submissions are not limited to written essays. Students have the opportunity to choose from a range of approaches. Read on for more information and how to enter.

The Widening Participation and Outreach Team wishes you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We have updated the contextual data section of the University website. If you go to the updated version here you will find some potentially useful tools in the hyperlinks. These tools include a target school list , link to department for education performance tables, IMD and a postcode look up tool that checks if you are from eligible POLAR 3 or IMD postcodes.

The Sutton Trust has published it's first Student Destinations report, demonstrating the impact that the programmes have had between 2006 - 2016. The flagship programmes include the UK Summer Schools and Pathways to Law. Read the report here.

An interactive and practical workshop that will help you gain a deeper understanding of Outreach, Public Engagement and Widening Participation work at the University and how to engage learners from diverse backgrounds and different age groups, especially from a Widening Participation (WP) background.
Our aim is to help you increase your confidence pitching to a range of audiences, giving you tools to design and plan a session on your research area/a topic in your subject discipline for a WP/Public Engagement target audience. You will get to hear from colleagues across the University who are already engaging in this kind of work and discuss good practice examples. We will also introduce mechanisms to measure and evaluate your impact and inform you about opportunities to get involved in Widening Participation/Public Engagement initiatives across the University.

The workshop will be held in two sessions:

Friday 12 October 2018, 9.30am-12.30pm - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library)

Friday 19 October 2018, 9.30am-12.30pm - Wolfson Research Exchange (Library)

Book your place today

For more information please email either contact:

Maria Kehr (Widening Participation & Outreach) – m.kehr@warwick.ac.uk

Naomi Kay (Public Engagement) - N.Kay@warwick.ac.uk

In this strategy, we imagine how the University of Warwick might be in 2030: how we will be excellent in everything we do and how our excellence will be chanelled into a renewed purpose and impact. Inclusion is one of the four strategic priorities included in the strategy this year. Please visit here to read more.

Are you a teacher of Classics, or a teacher interested in introducing Classics or Ancient History to your school’s curriculum?

If so, you and your students are warmly invited to the free launch event of the Warwick Classics Network:

‘EMPERORS, COINS, FROGS AND ORACLES’

2nd July 2018 at the University of Warwick

For more information please visit here.

Early booking is advised as places are limited. A booking form is included on the website, but please feel free to contact Dr Paul Grigsby – Paul.Grigsby@Warwick.ac.uk or Dr Michael Scott – m.c.scott@warwick.ac.uk with any booking enquiries or questions concerning the day.

The University of Warwick would like to invite your 6th Form students to attend Lab Experience Days at the School of Life Sciences.

Lab Experience Days enable students to:

• Find out about studying Biology at University.
• Learn new skills by attending a mini-lecture and doing practical work in a large teaching laboratory.
• Go on a tour of campus and talk to current students about what life at University is really like.

We will be continuing to run the highly successful lab experience days again this year in the School of Life Sciences from Monday 2 July to Friday 6 July 2018. We have a limited number of spaces so early sign ups are encouraged.

Teachers are welcome to register whole groups or alternatively individuals can register themselves. More information can be found on our website at: www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/outreach/lab). Registrations are encouraged by 4 June 2018.

This year four hundred and twenty pupils took part in the Warwick Bright Stars programme, the University primary school outreach programme. At the start of the year, Warwick student ambassadors with the help of university departments, delivered modules in various subjects such as History, French, Law and Economics. The aim of the programme was to raise aspirations of local primary children from under-represented backgrounds in Higher Education. On Friday 16^th March, the pupils joined us in the Oculus with their parents and teachers to celebrate their achievements at our Graduation ceremony. The children presented their work and you can see some of the videos here.

Professor Chris Hughes, our Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education welcomed them to Warwick and stressed the importance of Education and how Warwick aspires at being a learning centre in the community. The children reflected upon their achievements and resilience, sending rockets as high as the ceiling of the Oculus with Kate Redhead from the Primary Science Teaching Trust, before graduating under the applause of their proud parents and teachers. Certificates were handed out by Will Curtis, Academic Director and Paul Blagburn, Head of Widening Participation and Outreach. There was a lot of laughter, cheering and hat throwing and the proud smiles of these children reminded us all the importance of promoting social mobility and the impact our university can have in our community.

In April and May, more children joined the programme to take part in our campus days organised with the support of the Chemistry department, Warwick Manufacturing group and the Arts Centre. The children watched Nick Barkers explosive chemistry show, and created crash test structures for their eggs with Peter Wilson from WMG to learn about how materials change state and shape.

The Law Department has created a new Law Outreach website which can be found here. Please visit the pages for information on outreach activities on campus and in schools, and other opportunities within the Department of Law.