University of Cambridge Residential

Friday 5th December 2025

Recently, three of our current Year 11 students were selected to attend the annual Aspire Liverpool residential to Cambridge University, experiencing life as an undergraduate, attending taster lectures and supervisions.

This fabulous experience was part of their participation in the Aspire Liverpool programme which looks to increase the numbers of students applying to Oxbridge from non-selective schools.

Over the past two years we have seen students make successful applications to Oxford and we hope that this aspiration continues with our up-coming year groups.

Experiences such as these give our students the incentive and encouragement to make that application in the future. In the words of our students: Summer, Nathan and Etem: “We really enjoyed the whole experience. We were able to attend lectures and supervisions which are the Cambridge version of small group tutorials. Also, we really enjoyed the social time, meeting people from other schools who we have kept in touch with, we even slept in the dorms that the undergraduates use! Added to this was a tour of Cambridge itself and some Q & A with current students.”