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Interview Tips
Gary Connel, a chartered accountant and currently a Finance Director for a tech company, shared his interview tips with us this week. He outlined his own career journey and highlighted the importance of doing what you are good at and letting who you are guide you through your career. He emphasised the importance of preparing for an interview; knowing what the company does is always essential as this is often a starting point at the interview. He gave us some commonly asked questions that we could prepare for, such as: “Describe a time when an activity you took part in did not go well and how could you have done better?”
He explained that the structure of interviews has changed, that they are increasingly a two-way conversation and that you might be expected to start and lead the conversation.
Finally, he reminded us that there are no right and wrong answers to the questions the interviewers ask, they are looking at how you act and react to what they ask. We were all very grateful that Mr Connel spared the time to talk to us. We all learnt a lot from him and feel much more prepared for any interviews we’ll go to in the future.
NHS Project
For the NHS project week for Remove to Upper Four, Upper Sixth students volunteered to help with the various activities. This was a week-long project which encouraged students to research and learn about a variety of areas within the NHS.
They looked at the different departments within a hospital and how they are run as well as investigating historical figures in medicine such as Florence Nightingale, after whom the new London hospital was named. There were several creative projects for them to complete, including a playlist for a hospital radio and pieces of art too.
All the girls seemed to really enjoy this project and the Upper Sixth students enjoyed helping and answering the questions they had.
January
The Big Owls Learn All About Emotions
Owls Swoop into Visit Primary 1!
Primary 5 Documentaries Premiere
Primary 6 Junior Duke Bike Workshop
Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award
Primary 3 Rainforest Explorers
Primary 5 Assembly Celebrating Burns Night
Easter Tennis Camps with the Judy Murray Foundation
Primary 4 Learn about Life as an Evacuee
U6 Ball – A Former Boarder’s Visit
Seeing Frozen 2 at Fountain Park
February
Careers News Round-up February 2020
St George's U15 Lacrosse Team win Loretto Tournament!
Author Ross MacKenzie Visits Junior School
Trip to the Surgeons’ Hall Museums
Honey Pot Creative Café – Ceramics Painting
Meet 12 Scottish Boarding Schools
Primary 2 Learn How to Care for Their Teeth
Raindrops Make Rainbows - Australian Wildfire Fundraising
Primary 4 Study Electrical Circuits With Makey Makeys
Young Engineers Visit a French Navy Frigate
March
Careers News Round-up March 2020
L4 East District Hockey Tournament
Lower 5 'A' Hockey - S3 Scottish Cup Semi-Final
Travelling Book Fair Visits Lower School
Independent Women Magazine - 2020 Moving Forward
World of Work Day - Forth Bridges Education Centre
World of Work Day - Home Store + More
World of Work Day - Sainsbury's
The TCS Oxford Computing Challenge
Primary 6 Robot Programming Competition
Primary 3 Visit the Rainforest
High School of Glasgow 7s Tournament
Boarding Trip to Deep Sea World
St George's Win Junior Schools Hockey Cup!
St George's Moves to Supported Home Learning
Teaching online with Distance Learning
'We're Better Prepared for Distance Learning Than Ever'
An Outstanding Achievement at the Big Bang Engineering Competition
April
Physical Education Distance Learning in Action
Supported Distance Learning in Junior School
Careers News Round-up April 2020
Former Student Co-authors Ovarian Cancer Research Paper
Careers News Round-up April 2020
Caring for the Children of Key Workers Over Easter
Distance Learning and Critical Childcare Within Nursery and Junior School
May
U6 Graduation Recruitment School Virtual Event s
Careers News Round-up May 2020
Young Enterprise Awards - Collecti
U6 Graduate Recruitment Distance Learning Programme
Raising Money for 'Our Neighbours': Join us on a Virtual Trip From Edinburgh to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
June
U4 North American Exchange Goes Digital
House Event: Race Across the World!
St George’s Library – Remote Learning
Update from the Public Relations Prefects
Primary 1’s Butterflies Have Flown
Online Life-Long Learning Conference, 8 June 2020
U6 Project: Perspectives on the Pandemic
Edinburgh to Bulawayo - Day 10
Independent Women Magazine - Summer Issue 2020
Edinburgh to Bulawayo - Day 11
Edinburgh to Bulawayo - Day 12&13
Careers News Round-up June 2020
Edinburgh to Bulawayo - Final Day!
U6 Guest Speaker - Jane Turton
L.S. Lowry: Primary 3 Art Project
Ditching Shakespeare Would be a Real Tragedy
Upper 6 Leavers' Fortnight - Week 2
Will there also be singing? …Independent Women in Lockdown
August
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