This year has been busier than ever with our schedule of careers and mentoring events. We wanted to thank all those who attended - it makes such a difference for our students to be as prepared as possible for the world of higher education, apprenticeships and work.

Back in March, one of the first events was when Jeremy Crouch (1980) invited some potential law students to his workplace in London. Some in-school sessions have gone into specific areas in detail. Our Friday Lecture sessions take place throughout the year for 6th Formers - Richard Gaskin (1985) spoke to a small group about giving tips on how to have a successful career in finance, Elwin Adhami (2024) came in to talk about university life and Asher Richards (2023) spoke about his engineering apprenticeship at Jaguar Land Rover. Tom Shepherd (2014) also came in to help year 8 STEM and Design & Technology project.

Careers Fair

Harriet Jones - Barbers Rural

Olivia Bagley - JCB

Edward Joyce - Collins Aerospace

Jemma Green - Premier Foods

Harry Smith - HSBC

Michael Dinata - De Beers

Progression week

Degree Apprenticeships - Jayden Rakhra & Liam Buckley from Vodafone,  Archie Burrows from JLR, Paige Gregory from EY and Ryan Jones from Schneider Electric (all class of 2024)

Gap Years with Project Trust -  Alexia Balan (class of 2023)

Ben Wiser talked about entrepeneurship and his mobile phone app business - Element16 Media.

James Croxford and Andrew Martin Jones - former Head of DT - both currently work at Harper Adams, and spoke about Engineering together.

Professor David Armstrong (2001) gave very practical advice about applying to Oxford or Cambridge for competitive courses

Speed networking & 6th Form Employability skills workshop

Matt Munro - Nathan James Consulting, Managing Director

Ash Williams - DofE, UK Youth Engagement Project Manager

Simon Basely  - Vinci, Senior Quantity Surveyor

Ross Hemming - Savills, Rural Surveying Apprentice

Olivia Mclaughlin - RBSL, Engineering Apprentice

ON forum

We were really grateful for how many recent ONs came to the Forum, which includes students who have left within the last few years to talk about the university courses, gap year or apprenticeships.

Thanks to: Sam Pusey (2016); Angus O'Byrne, Stuart Lewis, Charlotte Gleed, Amara Otero Salgado (2021); Jake Holding, Alex Vickers, Zain Mohammad (2022); Alex Kaye,Rhianna Otero Salgado, Philippa Hart (2023); ; Josh Collins, Ben Maple, Sasha Donoghue, Shenal Suraweera, Elwin Adhami, Kailash Viswanathan (2024)

A huge thanks to all ONs who contributed throughout the year. Your support is so appreciated by staff and students and is what makes Adams so special. If I have missed out any names of those who helped, I do apologise!