You might have heard of extra curricular activities- for example completing your Grade Eight exam in piano or being in the netball team. Whilst extra-curricular activities are valuable and important in teaching you transferable skills,  apprenticeships and universities are also looking for super-curricular activities. 

Why are they so important? It is because they are extremely useful - not only do they demonstrate that you have a passion and active interest in the subject that you will be commited to for the foreseeable future, they are helpful to you to ensure you will enjoy the degree or apprenticeship and confirm that it’s the one you would like to pick. Super curricular activities are what you talk about for most of your personal statement and can even be helpful to put on your CV.

So what are super-curricular activities? University College Oxford says “Supercurricular activities are those that take the subjects you study further, beyond that which your teacher has taught you”. Most people think that this is just work experience in the field that you want to go in to - but this is not the case.

Whilst super-curricular activities are sometimes hard for some to do, such as work experience, most of them are quite accessible. For example, visiting museums, reading books and listening to podcasts are all great super-curricular activities. Another great example are online activities- a lot of companies and websites have interactive work experience/ tasks to do which you dedicate a certain amount of time to complete. In addition to this, companies also host seminars for students to learn more about the field they want to go in. 

All of the above are great super-curricular activities that will benefit you in your application process and help to give you an idea of what field or route you would like to pursue post Alevels.