Why It Matters to you - a Personal Statement session

This session encourages students to explore research relating to a subject they are interested in studying at Higher Education.

Exploring relevant research can help students to understand the relevance of a subject beyond the taught curriculum and support them to develop their ideas around why a subject matters to them. This session encourages students to begin writing sentences that evidence their subject interest based on the research stories they are exploring, sentences that can be used as part of their UCAS Personal Statement.

Gatsby Benchmarks

This activity has been verified by the Careers and Enterprise Company as meeting Gatsby Benchmarks (1) A stable careers programme, (3) Addressing the needs of every pupil (4) Linking curriculum learning to careers and (7) Encounters with further and higher education.

Teachers

Below you will find a session plan, student introduction, optional worksheet for students and two worked examples, if you would like the accompanying Powerpoint introduction to the session please email us.

Students

You can use the student introduction, optional worksheet and examples to complete this activity independently.

Why It Matters to you – teacher's session plan
Why It Matters to you – worksheet
Why It Matters to you – maths example
Why It Matters to you – art example