For schools
What an alumni body can do for a maths school
Your leavers are the most persuasive people a Year 12 pupil will ever meet, and the best evidence of what the school does. The association exists to make them easy to reach, on the school's terms.
Speakers and mentors
Alumni who have said they are willing: for a careers evening, a subject talk, a mock interview, or a term of mentoring for a pupil weighing up the same choices they once made.
Where your leavers went
Aggregate destinations, by year group: universities, subjects, sectors and cities, from consented data. Useful for prospectuses, for governors, and for the outreach return.
Admissions support
Alumni from the school's own catchment who can talk to applicants and their families about what a maths school is actually like, and why they chose it.
Reunions on your premises
The association organises; the school hosts if it wishes. A reunion is also the easiest afternoon of alumni engagement a school will ever run.
A route to former pupils
When the school wants to reach its alumni, the association can carry the message to members who have opted in, without the school holding a mailing list of its own.
Nothing that needs a data-sharing agreement
Members join the association themselves. The association never asks a school for pupil data, and never needs to.
What we ask of a school
- A line about the association in the leavers' pack and on the school's alumni page, so people know it exists the summer they leave.
- A named contact for events and speakers, so a request lands with somebody.
- An honest answer to "is this person one of ours?" when a volunteer is checking a membership request and the applicant has asked us to ask.
What we will not do
Contact current pupils, hold data about anyone under eighteen, or approach alumni who have not asked to be approached. The association is independent of the schools and of U-Maths, and it is careful to say so.