G&L FuturesWorkplace Skills

Students take part in our G&L Futures Programme which goes beyond the academics and helps students develop key skills valued by future employers such as problem-solving, teamwork, creativity, resilience and an entrepreneurial mindset. The programme provides 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. 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. In 2025 we launched the new Middle School Innovation and Leadership Course which is offered as an alternative to a GCSE.

The G&L Futures programme runs alongside the the support provided by our Higher Education and Careers department. They regularly invite 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. In particular, 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 Programme

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.
• Enterprise Skills Games: Have included examining the demise of Blackberry, and a simulation to manage a mobile phone store.
• Workshop with GiANT, a leadership consultancy
• 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

Year 11

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.

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: students work on a variety of projects including using satellite imaging and scanning data to model the progression of wildfires in Turkey and Israel; examining the difference in frequency of specific sounds in different British dialects; exploring the intonational differences in emotional speech; using CAD software to model the addition of hydrogen fuel tanks to aeroplanes and minimise drag; learning to code in Python in order to access CERN data and replicate the discovery of the Higgs Boson or to model planetary orbits; and original research examining the ability to chemically recycle plastic through hydrolysis.

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: LSE Generate

Our Bridge outreach programme includes a joint venture between the G&L Futures programme and the LSE.
Over 60 Bridge students participate 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, tasks 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 develop an understanding of the business and the market; develop their ideas and create 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