G&L FuturesWorkplace Skills

All students take part in our Futures Programme to go beyond the academics and help students develop key skills valued by future employers such as problem-solving, teamwork, creativity, resilience and an entrepreneurial mindset.

We welcome parents, alumnae and friends of the school to speak to the girls about the skills and qualities that will help them be successful in the workplace, aside from their academic credentials, and to talk about their own career pathways. Our biennial Careers Discovery Event invites speakers from a plethora of careers to speak to students and parents, including those from the fields of medicine and dentistry, architecture, corporate and social responsibility, finance, technology, law, the civil service, the charity sector, film and tv, song writing, music production and game development.

G&L Futures Live Projects

G&L Futures Live Projects provide students with real-world problem-solving challenges that are fully immersive and experiential by linking up with entrepreneurs and business leaders, our alumnae, and the wider community. The projects aim to help our students become the pioneers of the future who will make a positive difference to society and help solve some of the most critical problems facing humankind.

The first live projects were launched in 2022 as In-house Internships: pupils learnt from business leaders, experts and professionals ‘in-house’ at Godolphin and took part in ‘real-life’ analytical and problem-solving activities learning to collaborate, research, produce evidence-based ideas and solutions and develop their presentation skills.

We have now developed a range of courses that provide opportunities to work with content experts, community and business leaders and entrepreneurs, supported by teacher-led session.

LIVE CURRICULUM PROJECTS

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

• Sustainable Travel: Eight week course embedded in curriculum to design an evidenced based campaign to increase sustainable travel behaviour in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in partnership with the council’s sustainability department.
• Think Again: Role play activity workshops to demonstrate the reasons for the demise of Blackberry, and promoting the Think Again concept of ‘Thinking like a scientist’.
• Biodiversity: Challenge to increase biodiversity on the school site
• Oatsu: New Product Development for breakfast brand Oatsu
• Bridge: Mentors for Mighty Slice (Bridge is our outreach programme for
Year 5 students from local primary schools)

Year 10

Lower Sixth

• LSE Mentorpreneurship: All Lower Sixth work with a group of social entrepreneurs who are mentors with LSE Generate, the social entrepreneurship accelerator to ideate and design ideas. This co-created and co-delivered programme between LSE and Godolphin and Latymer supports Lower Sixth students to develop their ideas to benefit their community. Following a day at the LSE in November, students design and develop ideas supported by workshops and presentations by LSE mentors. At school students have weekly workshops and access to a dedicated online platform and an app, packed full of additional relevant materials through which the teams have ongoing communication and support from their LSE mentors; download and upload relevant templates; complete mini-self learning courses; and attend online tutorials. The teams pitch their ideas to a panel of social entrepreneurs.

LIVE CO-CURRICULAR PROJECTS

Working with external organisation to solve pressing problems

• Saved: Brand challenge with high protein start up snack company
• Team Repair: Education and STEM challenge with start up sustainable STEM education business
• Reuters: Digital media challenge around consumption of news.
• IRIS: investigation of how weather and traffic affected daily air pollution (specifically NOx) levels in London; links between pollution and borough population or wages; connections between types of air pollution and lung cancer rates. Worked alongside fellow students from other schools, as well as academics and scientists from the Natural History Museum, Google’s Deep Mind team, and Professor Alan Barr from CERN and Oxford.

It is wonderful to see the Godolphin girls engage with these issues so intelligently and to develop ideas that will resonate with other young people in the borough.

Mark Thomlinson, Climate Engagement and Behaviour Change Lead at Hammersmith and Fulham Council

BRIDGE: LIVE PROJECTS OUTREACH

Our 2023 Bridge outreach programme included a joint venture between the G&L Futures programme and the LSE.
Over 60 Bridge students participated in a workshop to gain an insight into the world of entrepreneurship. Emily Tout, alumna of LSE Generate and founder of high-protein cheesecake business the Mighty Slice, tasked the Bridge students (with the help of their Godolphin Year 9 mentors) to create a compelling pitch of how she might grow her start-up over the next year. Pupils developed an understanding of the business and the market; developed their ideas and created their branding before developing a final pitch for the growth of Mighty Slice.

What I’d like to be in the future is a food journalist because we did a Mighty Slice course with the LSE and I found that really intriguing.

Olive, 2023 Bridge Student