Worth wins alumni mentoring award
Mon, Sep 9th, 2024
Worth’s outstanding work supporting students in their onward journey from the School has been recognised by winning the Best of the Best Senior category for ‘Great Alumni Mentoring’ in The Week Independent Schools Guide 2024.
We are thrilled to win this award in the face of strong competition including the likes of Wellington College and University College School Hampstead, who earned mentions from the judges.
Worth Society is the School’s thriving alumni association that enables former pupils and staff to stay in touch with one another for business and social networking purposes, providing careers advice, support and lifelong guidance.
In their summary of why Worth stood out as the winner of this award, The Week wrote: “The School’s mentoring programme offers careers advice and work placements, as well as an annual ‘speed dating’ careers event in London, connecting former pupils with Worthian professionals. The School’s networking platform, Worth Connecting, offers support from the wider Worth community, and the Global Action Award Programme offers bursaries to leavers taking part in voluntary projects worldwide. A thoughtful leaving gift of a doorstop helps students to meet others on their first day of university, while reminding leavers that the door to Worth is always open.”
Judges also mentioned the generous gift of former pupil Lord Spencer of Alresford who funded our award-winning Sixth Form Centre and library, the Spencer Building, in 2022.
Worth Society manager Mrs Mary Lou Burge said: “At Worth we do not wave goodbye to students at the end of Sixth Form and that’s the end of it. Being a Worthian is a lifelong relationship and the support we offer through the Worth Society stands us out from other schools – be that post-school careers advice, helping Worthians secure work placements, keeping former students in touch throughout their careers or bringing people back together for a 50-year reunion. With our international database we can open up the world for our former students.”
Described as a ‘future-facing school’ in the 2024 Tatler Schools Guide, Worth is certainly a school on the up. In July we were shortlisted for the category of Boarding School of the Year in the Independent Schools of the Year awards – a category which will be judged later this year.
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