A demonstration of World Class commitment from Jack
In 2019, Jack Kennedy, a Year 12 student at St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School in Newcastle, worked as part of a team made up of World Class peers from his own school and from other accrediting schools around the country, to take part in and successfully pass the WCSQM Assessment Centre, hosted by UTC Reading.
Since impressing our assessors with his outstanding communication and project management skills in October 2019, Jack has gone on to demonstrate a World Class commitment to developing opportunities for not only himself, but for all the students and staff in his school, and for World Class students everywhere.
Immediately after discovering he had passed the assessment centre, Jack joined the WCSQM Alumni Association, and within weeks he joined the brilliant team of students that form our Alumni Association Committee, with whom he works hard to develop and promote opportunities for the 500+ World Class alumni students in the network.
2020 Assessment Centre – hosted by St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School
Jack returned from his own Assessment Centre experience in 2019 inspired to bring to his school the opportunity enjoyed by UTC Reading – hosting 75 of the brightest, World Class students from the best non-selective state schools around the country, to work collectively on a real-life project to improve their school infrastructure for the benefit of their students.
Jack and the many World Class students at St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School are supported by an outstanding teaching and leadership team, who welcomed Jack’s innovative idea and are opening up their school (virtually) to host the next WCSQM Assessment Centre. Slightly later than planned due to the challenges brought on by Covid-19, this will take place on 11th February 2021.
Despite, and perhaps partly because of the challenges schools have faced in recent months, we’re confident this will be our best Assessment Centre yet, giving students the opportunity to develop their teamworking skills, innovative thinking and creativity on a real-time work experience project outside of a typical classroom environment.
Top secret project planning
Details of the project itself will be unveiled to participating students two weeks in advance. With the event taking place virtually, Jack and his fellow students have been getting creative in the way they present the project, filming video presentations, messages and tutorials for the benefit of participating students. Jack has enlisted help from students from different year groups, including Alfie Jones, Year 8 (below) who received a World Class commendation for his video presenting skills.
