Working across South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire to encourage more children, young people and adults to consider higher education opportunities.
Endeavour wrapped 2024! 🎉 This August HeppSY worked closely with Endeavour to run two summer programmes for year 11 leavers! Endeavour is a Sheffield based charity who enrich lives through Education and Adventure 💪 🗺️ All of the students pushed themselves out of their comfort zones trying new activities including cooking, abseiling , orienteering, canoeing, hiking and climbing 🍳 🛶🧗♂️ Thank you to Endeavour and the learners who took part in this collaborative project!
2 days ago
We're hiring! 📣 We are seeking a Data and Evaluation Officer to join our Data and Evaluation team, which plays a crucial role in our reporting and monitoring responsibilities for our widening participation activities and programmes. Could you provide specialist advice and support for HeppSY, playing an integral part in enabling our organisation to meet our requirements to the Office for Students 👩🎓 ? The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate: • Knowledge and…
3 days ago
Best of luck to everyone collecting their GCSE results today! ✨ We hope you all achieve the results that you were hoping for. Check out some of our recent graduate's top tips for your next steps into further education. 👩🎓 Tip number 1: Stay calm and positive. Results day can be nerve-wracking but try to stay calm and composed. Remember that your GCSE results do not define your future. Focus on what you have achieved…
2 weeks ago
Its results day! 🎉 Good luck to everybody receiving their results today! 🤞 🍀 Remember to check out the UCAS website for advice and guidance on your next steps, including clearing and foundation years.😀 Follow the link in our bio to access the UCAS website ✔️
3 weeks ago
HeppSY is partnering with @endeavoursheff to host students on a week-long outdoor activity summer camp. 🏕️ We decided to give one of the activities a go ourselves... abseiling! 🧗♀️ We are so excited to host all the students on the Endeavour summer camps next week. It's going to be so much fun! 🛶
4 weeks ago
It has been a great year for HEPP and HEPPSY! 🎉 Since the beginning of the academic year 2023/2024, HEPP has provided approximately 18,666 learner engagements. This has included workshops, assemblies, and 57 campus tours across our two funding partners - @theuniversityofsheffield and @sheffhallamuni 🏫 HeppSY has also had a busy year. With approximately 2,536 engagements this year, our engagement assistants have been busy! 👩🏫 A huge thank you to all of the schools and…
5 weeks ago
🤔 Ever wondered what it's like to graduate from Higher Education?💭 Watch to get a feel for what a graduation day is like, including the hat toss🎓 #highereducation #graduation #universityofsheffield #hepp #heppsy #politicsdegree #degree #wideningparticipation #wideningaccess #university #college #apprenticeship #degreeapprenticeship
6 weeks ago
🤔 Ever wondered what it's like to graduate from Higher Education?💭 🎉 Our Engagement Assistant Eve had her graduation ceremony last week for completing her Politics Bachelor of Arts Degree last year👩🎓 Swipe to get a feel for what a graduation day is like🎓 Eve had a lovely day surrounded by her family and friends celebrating her success, coming back to the @theuniversityofsheffield and attending the graduation ceremony ☀️ #highereducation #graduation #universityofsheffield #hepp #heppsy #politicsdegree…
6 weeks ago
We've been running the numbers at HeppSY and... Since 2017, HeppSY have provided 323,359 learner engagements. That's three times the capacity of Wembley Stadium! 🏟️ Since 2016, HeppSY have delivered 9,479 activities . That's one for every otter in Scotland! 🦦 The academic year might be nearly over but we can't to engage with even more learners and deliver more engaging activities next year! 🎓 #UniConnect #HigherEducation #SheffieldHallam #UniversityofSheffield
6 weeks ago
It's been a successful year for the pilot of PIE! 🥧 Our Power, Investigate and Explore programme is a sustained programme, designed for Young Carers, Care experienced and Disabled Students. In December, we kicked off the programme with our 'Power' session, at @theuniversityofsheffield, empowering students with soft and transferrable skills. Our theme was sustainability. The students made fashion items out of recycled materials, while developing their soft and transferrable skills. In March, we introduced our…
7 weeks ago
🎓 Hepp and HeppSY Weekly Round Up!🎓 🗺️ It's been another very busy week of delivery for our Engagement Assistants as the school term comes to a close.🏫 📍 We welcomed Notre Dame, @oakwoodhighrotherham and @parkwoodacademyeact to @sheffhallamuni for a campus visit day. Our Engagement Assistants Lucy, Martha, Ruby, Eve and Evie ran campus tours and workshops across the week🔍 Lady Manners school had 2 virtual assemblies delivered by Lucy and Martha on Monday and…
8 weeks ago
That's a wrap on all of HeppSY's Attainment Raising Projects for the 2023/24 academic year! 🎓📚 💡 GOALS Breakfast Club 💡 In collaboration with South Yorkshire Children's University, GOALS guided KS3 learners towards applying for a £500 grant to help fund a new activity or enrichment resource for their school. Taking part in 12x 30 minute workshops, fuelled by free breakfasts, learners developed key skills alongside the Skills Builder Universal Framework. Thank you to all…
8 weeks ago
Roundup Time!!🎉 It's been an exciting week here at Hepp and HeppSY! 🥳 This week we successfully hosted our Future Flyers Celebration event, a huge congratulations to all the young learners who participated in the future flyers program 🚀 It was also a great time chatting with careers leaders across the region yesterday and learning about the great work that SYMCA are doing 🎓. Congratulations to Wickerlsey Trust for winning an iPad award for completing…
9 weeks ago
Are you committed to developing students' independent learning through fun and engaging activities? Would you like to take part in the delivery of a fantastic breakfast club project with KS3 students? We're looking for a part-time (0.5) Engagement Coordinator to join the HeppSY team to help coordinate and provide operational delivery for GOALS, our collaborative project with South Yorkshire Children’s University 🎓. GOALS is an attainment raising breakfast club project designed to develop students’ independent…
9 weeks ago
🎓 Rounding up on another busy week at Hepp and HeppSY!🎓 On Tuesday, Martha and Dolapo delivered workshops about belonging in Higher Education to students in Year 8 at astreaacademysheffield ✍️ Thursday saw Dolapo visit hindehouseacademy to talk about making decisions about Higher Education, and Ruby and Martha deliver at @chaucerschoolsheffield , talking to students in Year 7 about achieving! 📖 Our EA's Ruby and Dolapo were joined by Tom, one of our Evaluation and…
10 weeks ago
Yesterday we had our Future Flyers celebration event! 🤖🚀 oasiswatermead and Arbourthorne Community Primary School joined us at @sheffieldhallamuni to celebrate completing the programme! They had a talk from Barney, a Hallam graduate, about working in video game development. 👾🎮 They also got a tour of the university, getting to see the Pennine Lecture Theatre and an airplane engine! 🎓✈️
11 weeks ago
In case you missed it, here’s Evie’s Takeover Week! 🎓 From the National Video Game Museum to a campus tour, Evie had a busy week as an Engagement Assistant at HeppSY. 🏫👾🎮
11 weeks ago
📣 We're Hiring 📣 Do you want to make a difference to young people's futures? Have you seen the value of higher education and now want to promote this to young people? 🎓 This graduate internship offers an invaluable opportunity to work across the Higher Education Progression Partnership. Hepp works across South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire to encourage more children, young people, and adults to consider higher education opportunities. 👩🎓 👨🎓 In this role…
11 weeks ago
It's been another busy week for Hepp and HeppSY! 🎓 Martha and Joe headed to High Hazels Academy and Arbourthorne Community Primary School to deliver the final session of our Future Flyers programme. 🚀 🤖 The students aimed high, had lots of fun, and we can't wait to have them at our celebration event next week! Our EAs headed to Astrea Academy Sheffield, @whittingtongreenschool, Springwell Community College and @chaucerschoolsheffield to deliver sessions to a variety…
12 weeks ago
It's Carers Week 2024! 😊 We have lots of resources in our linktree in our bio and on our website www.hepp.ac.uk to offer support and guidance for students that have caring responsibilities. 👩🎓 One of these is our 'Guide for Young People with Caring Responsibilities Considering Higher Education' 📚 Click the link in our bio to access the full guide and more resources. 👀 #carersweek2024
12 weeks ago
Teachers 💜 our campus tours! Check out some super positive feedback from recent campus visits that we've hosted at Sheffield Hallam University and University of Sheffield from Trinity Academy, The Bolsover School, and Sir Thomas Wharton Academy. The Bolsover School 💬 "The tour was great. The staff and ambassadors were so helpful and really engaging." Sir Thomas Wharton Academy 💬 "Very insightful. Knowledge of Martha [the EA leading the tour] was great! Loads of information…
12 weeks ago
It's been another busy week at Hepp & HeppSY! 🎮 HeppSY hosted their He Can and She Can experience days in Sheffield. He Can learners had a tour of Sheffield Hallam University and She Can learners explored the University of Sheffield. Both groups also visited the National Video Game Museum for a creative workshop on developing an accessible controller to play video games in the museum. These experience days were a great success with learners…
13 weeks ago
It's the final of our twilight webinars delivered in partnership by Hepp, HeppSY, Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield. 💻 🌙 Confirmation and clearing can be a tricky process, especially when supporting students through it. If you're a teacher or professional, come along to our webinar and find out all you need to know about confirmation and clearing, including what they are, deadlines and timeframes, and how to support students in this process.…
13 weeks ago
📣 There's Still Time to Apply! 📣 Our Higher Education Engagement Assistant positions are open until this Sunday and you can still apply. Our current Engagement Assistants are here to give you tips for how to ace the interview, just like they did a year ago! 🎓 If you haven't applied for our Higher Education Engagement Assistant (Graduate Intern) position yet, you can still apply at the link here: shu.ac.uk/jobs and at the link in…
14 weeks ago
This month, we took learners from UTC Olympic Legacy Park down to Magdalene College at the University of Oxford as part of our ElevatED programme!🎓 Learners gained valuable insights into what studying a HE qualification at Oxbridge would look like, attended a workshop on their specific admissions processes, and explored the universities interview and studying styles 📚 . Magdalen College also hosted a beautiful campus and city tour and provided a 2 course meal in…
14 weeks ago
HeppFEST Reloaded is LIVE! Rediscover four days of FREE sessions to inspire, motivate and increase the confidence of students on their journey to Higher Education. Visit website
