Extra and Super Curricular Activities

Super-curricular is different to extra-curricular. 

Extra-curricular activities are those outside of your chosen topic, and unrelated to your studies, whereas super-curricular activities take the subjects you study further, beyond what you have learnt at school or college. Students should engage in extra curricular activities for personal development, such as skills, experience and achievements.  This includes participating is sports, volunteering, work experience and mentoring. 

Super-curricular activities are essential for applications to competitive universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and other Russell Group or high tariff institutions like Bath, St Andrew's and Loughborough. Super curricular activities include wider subject reading, watching films/documentaries, listening to podcasts, attending lectures and entering academic competitions. 

See below for a variety of activities for students to get involved in. 

Virtual work experience, tasters and employer insights 

Subject specific lectures, reading, research, courses  

Medicine, Healthcare and Veterinary Medicine

Accountancy, Business Management, Economics, and Finance

STEM

Humanities

Social Sciences

Art, Design, Media, and Performing Arts

Law