13-17 year olds
Minimum English level: Intermediate B1
Oxford Young Professionals Summer Camp is designed for forward-thinking students who want to gain hands-on experience, essential skills, and industry insights into their future careers. Delivered by industry experts, it is an exceptional academic programme integrated with an externally validated micro-certified Capstone Industry Project.
With expert-led lessons, hands-on workshops, and a Capstone Project based on real-life challenges, students will get a unique blend of academic learning and immersive real-world industry experience, while improving English skills in a professional context. Students will engage in a variety of academic and apprentice-style lessons taught by a diverse team of experienced tutors. The programme consists of 25 hours of career experience tuition per week, which includes academic studies, capstone industry project, and study in action workshops.
Certified by recognised UK industry bodies, the programme enables students to interact with industry professionals, helping them build a professional portfolio and take a step closer to their desired future career.
Course Essentials:
Oxford Young Professionals Summer Camp consists of a well-balanced programme of specialist tuitions, workshops, activities, sports and excursions. The two-week programme includes:
- 50 hours of subject-specific tuition each week taught by industry experts
- Industry Project and Study in Action Workshops
- Full afternoon and evening sports and action packed social programme
- 4 full-day excursions including 2 ‘Study-in-Action’ day of chosen specialism
- Personalised report card & external certification
- Maximum class size of 12 students
- Insurance
- Airport transfers (between 09:00-19:00 GMT)
Subject Choices:
Oxford Young Professionals can choose one of the following career-focused subjects to study:
- AI & Computer Science
- Architect & the Built Environment
- Business and Marketing
- Engineer
Social Programme:
Outside tuition, students will improve language skills through a broad range of sports and social activities:
- Basketball
- Cricket
- Cream Tea
- Disco Dodgeball
- Dream Catcher Making
- Fencing
- Football
- Handball
- Harry Potter Walking Tour
- Hockey
- Ice-Skating
- Karaoke
- Lacrosse
- Modern Dance
- New Theatre Backstage Visit
- Oxford University Colleges Tour
- Oxford University Press Museum
- Papier-Mache
- Photography
- Ashmolean & Pitt Rivers Museum
- Punting
- River Walk
- Swimming
- Talent Show
- Tennis
- T-Shirt Painting
- Volleyball
- Yoga
- Zumba
Excursions:
Excursions are a vital part of the summer experience for international students to gain a cultural understanding of the UK alongside English language study. Students will have 2 full-day trips per week. The choices are:
- Buckingham Palace
- Houses of Parliament
- West End Musical
- BBC
- Warner Bros Studios
- Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
- West End theatres
- Bath
- Bristol
- Portsmouth
- Stratford-Upon-Avon
Below include a typical two-week sample timetable and a typical day of Oxford Young Professionals Summer Camp.
Boarding:
Located just to the north of Oxford city-centre, the summer school takes place in d’Overbroeck’s’ sixth form centre, completed in September 2017. Students will stay in d’Overbroeck’s boarding houses, the accommodation consists of single, twin and 3-bed dorms with separate male and female, and shared bathrooms.
Meals:
Well balanced, nutritious three cooked meals are provided in the school dining hall. Drinks and biscuits are available in the lesson breaks. Packed lunches are provided for excursions.
Laundry:
Laundry is done once a week. All bed linen is provided and is laundered once a week. Towels are not provided.
d’Overbroeck’s is a traditional co-educational independent school in the city of Oxford, for pupils aged 11–18. Founded in 1977, d’Overbroeck’s is consistently ranked among the top co-educational boarding schools in the UK. The Good Schools Guide describes d’Overbroeck’s as a place of energy and laughter, of single-minded determination among pupils to do the best they can. And d’Overbroeck’s doesn’t let them down.
d’Overbroeck’s – a highly successful and well respected British independent school in Oxford. Academic excellence is at the heart of what the school aims to achieve. They aim to provide a broad education that will stretch and develop the whole person. And they aim to ensure that their teaching is – to borrow the words of their inspection report – ‘finely tuned to the specific requirements of individuals’. They believe in flexibility and in the power of laughter and humanity. And they believe that students who are happy and at ease in their school environment, who are working in league with a team of highly gifted, committed and enthusiastic teachers, are going to achieve and grow to their full potential, academically and personally – and that they are going to develop skills, attitudes and aptitudes that will stand them in very good stead in later life.
Alongside the academic curriculum, a varied and vibrant programme of co-curricular activities opens up all sorts of opportunities for students throughout the age range. All the staples are there – sport, music, drama, Art, D of E, etc. – and there are some quite unusual things on offer besides.The school’s Sixth Form is the oldest part of d’Overbroeck’s. Unlike many independent schools, d’Overbroeck’s Sixth Form is on a separate site, meaning that its facilities and teaching are entirely geared towards sixth form students. The new sixth form centre, completed in September 2017, boasts state-of-the art and modern facilities. The Sixth Form is selective, and entry requires at least 8 GCSEs at grade A* to C, normally including Maths and English, or equivalent. A number of Sixth Form scholarships and awards are available.
A level results achieved by students at d’Overbroeck’s Sixth Form are consistently strong. In the academic year 2009-10, the Sixth Form achieved a contextual value added score of 1,102. This was the highest score achieved by any school nationwide. In 2017, 63% of grades were A/A*, of which 46% of the students achieved 3 or more A* or A grades. The Grades A* to B were 87%, ranking d’Overbroeck’s 27th in the Times A-Level results league table. In 2022 A-Level results, 66% of their students achieved A*-A, and 87% of all entries achieved A*-B , which lead to many of their students gained places at excellent universities, including Oxford, Cambridge and universities in the Russell Group.
Pastoral care and academic monitoring at the Sixth Form are carried out by a system of Directors of Studies. Each pupil is supervised by a Director of Studies — one of a team of senior staff. Each Director of Studies supervises a small number of pupils for whom they have pastoral and academic responsibility. In many cases a pupil will also be taught by their Director of Studies.
