The A to Z of making the most of the summer

St Mary’s School, Cambridge Sixth Form students will be engaging in an exciting A to Z of activities over the summer break, ranging from work experience in Architecture, Archive work and Accountancy to volunteering in a Zoo! In between, students are set to experience:

• Banking in Hong Kong
• Caring in the community, at Wood Green Animal Shelter, nursery schools, and  elderly care homes
• Dentistry at Brookfields Dental Surgery
• Engineering with WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff on Hills Road
• France -  a work experience placement in France arranged with Halsbury Travel
• Gilbert Galleries Collection refurbishment at the V&A Museum
• Hospital work, at Addenbrooke’s Anaesthesia Department
• IT, through a placement in the Cryptology Department at Thales, Cambridge
• Joint Colleges Nursery, Chaucer Road, Cambridge
• King’s College London – a taster course programme
• Lourdes – a volunteering working party of Lower Sixth students
• Music masterclass at Llandovery College, Carmarthenshire
• National Citizenship Service
• Occupational Therapy in care homes
• Playscheme internships with the University of Cambridge,  held at our own Junior School
• Queen’s consort - The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award expedition is taking place in Wales this month
• Research at Convergence Pharmaceuticals Ltd
• Sharks – one lucky girl is going to Fiji to work on a conservation project with sharks
• Teaching, at St Paul’s Church of England Primary School
• University of East Anglia Summer School
• Veterinary work at Cambridge Veterinary Group
• Working all over the world, from Cambridge and London, to Hong Kong, China, France and Thailand
• Young Persons Volunteering Programme at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.