Y12 UCAS Discovery

Monday 23 March

Y12 will visit the UCAS Discovery Exhibition at the Excel on Monday 23 March. This is the largest Higher Education, apprenticeship and careers event of its kind in the country and features hundreds of universities, employers, gap year providers and other exhibitors. It is a key part of our HE provision at LASWAP.

The event is free but has limited tickets. We have booked spaces for LaSWAP students; please make sure your child signs up to attend via our link.

• Go to https://www.ucas.com/events/ucas-discovery-london-2026-470346 
• Click ‘Book Now’ and select 'Join group booking'
• Enter the group booking reference UCASBKN1314169, and follow the instructions to complete their individual registration.

There will be more information in tutorial sessions.

Y12: Applying for Medicine with Dr Sharon Taylor, Imperial College London

PHS/WES joint LaSWAP Building
Tuesday 10 March at 4pm

On Tuesday10 March we welcome Dr Sharon Taylor from Imperial College and a current Imperial medical student to LaSWAP for a session on preparing your application and preparing for your UCAT. This is an essential session for all students interested in Medicine or Dentistry.

Y13: replying to UCAS offers

I ran a detailed assembly on accepting offers for Y13s on Monday 23 February. Please email me if you would like the slides.

Please remember there is no rush to accept UCAS offers; students have until May to accept them.

For now, please support your child to:

• Read the conditions of offers very carefully
• Order offers by preference
• Research and read up on all of their choices again
• Visit as many universities as possible or use online open events and virtual tours.
• Search for workshops or events that might give some insight into life at that uni.
  o Use UCAS Events, Unifrog or https://www.unitasterdays.com. 

Once students have all their offers, UCAS Track will tell them when their acceptance deadline is. If they receive all offers by 31 March, their reply deadline is 6 May.

Please get in touch if you have any questions about UCAS.

Webinar: Student Finance for Y13 families

Wednesday 25 February at 6pm

• https://zoom.us/j/98639443056?pwd=f1tSNQE2CaftKY3yolskJmRVCARmwk.1 
• Meeting ID: 986 3944 3056
• Passcode: laswap

This webinar will explain the Student Finance application process, including how and when to apply, what the loans cover, how much you can expect to receive, how repayment works and more key information.

Student Finance applications open for September/October 2026 entry on Monday 23rd March: https://studentfinance.campaign.gov.uk/going-to-uni-2026/. 

Student Finance applications open for September/October 2026 entry on Monday 23 March: https://studentfinance.campaign.gov.uk/going-to-uni-2026/.

Other opportunities for sixth form students

Super-curricular and work experience opportunities really pick up during this half term. There are lots of options for students to take part in workshops, competitions and events, and summer school applications begin to open. As well as this newsletter, we recommend students sign up to mailing lists from individual businesses and universities and also keep an eye on UCAS Events and Uni Taster Days:

https://www.unitasterdays.com/

https://www.ucas.com/ucas-events

Please see this fortnight’s LaSWAP Newsletter for even more opportunities.  Newsletters are emailed to families or can be found at https://www.laswap.camden.sch.uk/Parents/Newsletters/.

Please check your Spam and mark all emails from LaSWAP, Acland Burghley or Bromcom as Safe/Priority!

UCAS Virtual Work Experience

UCAS has a huge repository of online work experience programmes in nearly every sector, from accounting to education to social care. Virtual work experience and be helpful to establish sectors that students are interested in pursuing a career in, and to provide super curricular examples for UCAS, apprenticeship and work applications. Find them all here: https://www.ucas.com/careers-advice/virtual-work-experiences. 

London AI Campus Hackathon
14 and 21 March

This event introduces students to the fundamentals of sound, vision and artificial intelligence through practical, build-based sessions using Raspberry Pi hardware and industry tech and AI tools. Students will build their own speaker, explore how microphones and cameras convert the physical world into digital signals, and learn how those signals become intelligent systems that can hear, see and respond by building and programming a robot that can talk and speak to them.

The Campus are running two focused sessions:

• Sound: Saturday 14 March
• Vision: Saturday 21 March

Each date has two 2.5-hour sessions (11am-1.30pm or 2-4.30pm) that students can choose from.

The programme is completely free. No prior coding experience is required - just curiosity and enthusiasm. Sign up here: https://form.jotform.com/260532635194356