King's Scholars

Through our partnership with King's College London and the King's Scholars programme, students can learn about university study from King’s professors, explore university life with King’s students, watch and take notes during a mock lecture, debate the merits of a campus or city university, compare university to school, get to grips with student finance and more!

Meanwhile, through a variety of learning and creative tasks pupils can learn and deploy their metacognitive skills such as summarising, note taking and mind-mapping. Self reflection and planning are also encouraged along with creative tasks such as speech writing, poetry, presentation making, competitive quizzes, advert designing and more.

Designed by King’s College London’s Widening Participation Department, the programme is designed to equip KS3 students with:

The knowledge to access highly selective universities
Metacognitive skills (in the form of King’s Scholar skills and SOCKS stops) which are proven to raise in-school attainment

By the end of the scheme, pupils will be able to:

Deploy metacognitive study skills to support them in their studies
Describe who is at university
Describe elements of student life
Explain the differences between campus and city universities, and between living at home or in student accommodation
Explain how university learning is different to school learning
Detail the financial support available to students
Explain why university offers superb social opportunities
Explain why they should go to university
Explain how to get to university

King's Scholars

Designed by King’s College London’s Widening Participation Department, the programme is designed to equip KS3 students with:

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