A key part of an RHS education is not just to support our pupils in navigating their school years successfully but preparing them for life beyond school. This starts as early as Year 7, where we expose pupils to different career options and start them thinking about their strengths and interests. 

Each step of their RHS school life takes each pupil along a well-considered route to finding a career pathway that inspires them to grow and achieve beyond school - this could be at university, through a degree apprenticeship, a direct work placement or maybe a career in the Armed Forces. 

Career Guidance

Careers advice starts from Year 9 when pupils are helped to make subject choices, identify career options, conduct self-evaluations and research suitable Higher Education courses. Continuous guidance is then provided throughout Years 10 to 13 with impartial careers advice, interview training, work experience, help with UCAS applications and writing personal statements, and a series of careers talks, suppers and an annual Careers Fair. In their final term, Year 13 pupils are also given invaluable advice on the use of LinkedIn, online profile building and networking opportunities.

Great emphasis is placed on supporting, guiding and taking a real interest in what our pupils are doing at the age of 25. For some this may be three or four years after completing a first degree but for others this may be after following a higher apprenticeship scheme, through which they have gained superb on-the-job experience as well as a fully funded degree or other qualification. Recent leavers have followed such schemes with Jaguar Land Rover, John Lewis, Barclays and PwC.

Subjects Studied at University

The below graph represents the area of studies our recent leavers have chosen to read at university.

Recent Destination Universities