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This full access partnership summer school initiative was
designed to encourage under-represented groups in Norfolk
to raise their aspirations and dispel myths surrounding
Oxbridge.
Financially supported through continuing Aim Higher and
Specialist Schools Trust Funding. Our close partnership
with Notre Dame High School, Norwich - a state Catholic
Secondary School enabled us to access the two DfES funding
bodies.
94 students from 15 Norfolk school and college sixth-forms
attended this summer.
The program combines rigorous classroom activity in the
candidates chosen subject, with cultural enrichment (for
instance using theatre visits), eminent speakers and tailored
and appropriate workshops. The emphasis is on small classes,
individual attention and innovative teaching methods which
create an immediacy and excitement about learning such that
students are inspired to new levels of performance.
It is hoped that the challenge of the academic work and
the rich array of extension activities help students develop
the best in themselves whilst building a foundation for
their college years and beyond.
Dons and Scholars from both Oxford and Cambridge and teachers
with the personality and passion to teach high-achieving
students are used to tutor the course.
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