Spring Term Update 2016 OLLEGE VI - Riddlesdown … VI Spring Term Newsletter...Spring Term Update...
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Spring Term Update 2016
COLLEGE VI
UCAS The UCAS deadline passed on January 15th. 84% of College VI students have applied to
university and have now received at least 4 out of 5 offers. I have carried out a record 30
mock interviews with students for Russell Group universities.
Year 13 students should be applying now for their student loans via Student Finance.
https://www.gov.uk/student-finance
On the 15th March, a group of Year 12 students attended the UCAS Convention at Surrey
University. This event marked the launch of our 2016 UCAS / Careers programme in PHSEE.
From now on, Year 12 students will be researching courses and learning how to use the
websites during their weekly lessons.
The process will culminate in the UCAS /Careers week 4th-8th July with a UCAS Parents
Evening scheduled for Thursday 7th July. A pleasing number of our Year 12 students have
made applications to the Sutton Trust Summer Schools and have shown an interest in
attending forthcoming Oxbridge preparation events. Our most organised Year 12 students
have already started to attend Open Days!
Work Experience This year, Work experience Week begins on the 18th July. If they have not already done so,
Year 12 students need to securing placements.
Work experience is an extremely important part of preparing for the future. Our KS5
Careers Co-ordinator, Ms Lynch, has prepared the schedule of 45 min interviews with
Inspiring Futures www.inspiringfutures.org.uk for Year 13 students who have not applied to
university or who are unsure about their future.
These interviews are due to take place during the week commencing Monday 11th April.
They are designed to provide in-depth careers advice and an opportunity to begin action
planning. Students have been asked to submit a CV in advance and have been given
resources to help them with the process.
Diary Dates: 21 April
EPQ Presentations
25 April
Mansfield College Oxford Event
13 May
Study leave Year 12
27 May
Study Leave Year 13
6 June
Year 12 return to Collegiate
13 June
Year 12 Exams for Reformed
Subjects Begin
18-22nd June
Hadrian’s Wall Trip
4-8 July
UCAS/Careers Week
7th July
Parents Evening
18 - 22 July
Work Experience
22nd July
Year 13 Ball
In the early spring term PHSEE lessons, Year 12 students were involved in a pilot scheme for a Drugs Programme prepared by The Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation. The views of our students have been represented and will shape the future programme. The charity provides information and support for parents as well as students. Having listened to Daniel’s mother and father speak in assembly, students went on to raise money for the charity. Advice for students and parents can be found on the website.
http://www.dsmfoundation.org.uk/about-us/
College VI by the Students
The Executive Committee is coming to the end
of their work on a film entitled
“College VI by the students”. This
video is designed to serve as an
information film for prospective
College VI students.
It has been a really busy term for
sixth form students with loads of
opportunities and events going on.
The Executive Committee has been
proactive in organising events and it
has been great to see all of the
different societies flourishing into
rewarding and successful assets of
the College. Kofi and I have also been
attending fortnightly meetings with
the Head Boys and Head Girls from
each college to compare and discuss
ideas. This has been a great
opportunity to see and appreciate
what's going on in other colleges.
The Executive Committee were very
excited to announce the first ever
winners of the Student Awards on
the last Wednesday of term. There
are so many hard working and
talented people in the sixth form and
as a student body we have decided to
recognise that by nominating
students who we think should get an
award. Hopefully all the hard work
and effort that characterizes College
VI will continue next term to pave
way for more successes in sixth
form.”
Stephanie Wright Head Girl
What I've found especially refreshing
is to see how willing College VI
students are to get involved with the
community and opportunities here.
We've had amazing successes with
fundraising and other events and it's
wonderful to see students going past
the curriculum. It really does
epitomize the special type of sixth
form we have.
Kofi Achina Head Boy
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College VI students have had access to
advice and guidance from
representatives of the Croydon Drop In
team who have been in the Common
Room.
In addition, as part of our Care and
Guidance programme, all Year 12
students travelled to the Fairfield Halls
on Friday 4th March for the Croydon
Council: Safe, Drive, Stay, Alive, Young
Driver Programme.
The College VI Students’ Student
Awards go to:
Harry Stawman
Mia Outtridge
Liam Macdonald
Bo-Li Chung
Well done!
Jack Petchey Award
Winner
Joe Handyside, organised
a trip to Clapham Picture
House on 18th March to
take part in a British Sign
Language event,
‘Power in our Hands’.
We were shown archive
footage of the London
deaf community from the
turn of the century to the
present day and we learnt
about the BSA’s fight for
equality and the ongoing
campaign to ensure British
Sign Language is
recognised as a formal
language.
Joe has a place to study
Speech and Language
Therapy at university. He
won the Jack Petchey
Award for his dedication to
young EAL students and
his work with Jean Swain
in the MacKay College.
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£57.33
MONDAY 30 NOVEMBER
£110.47
TUESDAY 1 DECEMBER
£34.34
WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER
£27.78
THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER
£80.47
FRIDAY 4 DECEMBER
£116.81
POOL TOURNAMENT
£75.60
FRIDAY 18 MARCH
£118.64
GRAND TOTAL
£621.44
College VI Fund Raising Total 2015/2016
Sport Relief
The STEM Society has been working towards the “Silver Eco schools award”,
and this term, our members have focused on the gardening club, the food
sold in the canteen and recycling.
Due to their efforts, healthy smoothies have been introduced into the
canteen.
College VI students are in conversation with the Recycling Officer for
Croydon with a view to running a scheme in College VI and then the wider
Collegiate. All this work will be submitted as part of the STEM Eco Schools
Silver Award.
Our generous College VI students
continue to raise money for charity.
For Sport Relief, the intrepid BTEC PE
students have been raising money
for sports’ wheelchairs by asking
staff and students to guess the
number of sweets in a jar and the
Fundraising Society
sold Krispy Kreme
doughnuts and Millie’s
Cookies along with
organising a raffle for a
giant cookie.
Incidentally, this was
won by our Head Girl,
Stephanie Wright, who
swears the draw was not rigged.
Fundraisers are yet to add up the
total but at the last count it was
looking healthy even if the goods
sold were not!
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The College VI Dementia Society
The STEM Society
The College VI Dementia Society continues to meet regularly and groups of
students visit a local care home on a regular basis to socialise with residents.
Members have delivered assemblies to raise awareness of Dementia amongst
younger students. On Monday 21st March students got together with
ex-head of Aquila College, Mr Peter Edwards, who first introduced us to
Dementia Friends.
We learned how singing helps people to communicate with Dementia
patients and we had a go at singing some songs with actions! We will
definitely be putting this in to practice when we next visit the care home.
Mia Outtridge
The British Egyptian Society
A group of students
accompanied me to The British
Egyptian Society literary evening
on Monday 14th March at the
Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall.
Speakers included Professor
Doris Abou-Seif Behrens, retired
Nasser D Khalili Chair of Islamic
Art and Archaeology at SOAS;
Dr Gerhard Behrens, retired
international banker, academic
and novelist and The Countess
of Carnarvon, the wife of the 8th
Earl.
It was the 5th Earl who, along
with Howard Carter, discovered
the Tutankhamun tomb. She
spoke about Highclere Castle
and its remarkable
Tutankhamun exhibition and
about Highclere as the location
of “Downton Abbey”.
We were also treated to a
recital by Emmanuel Sowicz
Garcia who is a very talented
guitarist and came to the Royal
College of Music from Chile.
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Holocaust Memorial
The Sports Society
The Sports Society organised the annual Snooker and Inter Collegiate football tournaments. Mr Bocking was awarded
man of the Football tournament for his heroic goalkeeping, especially when it came to the penalty shootout.
The final was held on 17th March and the winning team was VI AGW. Mr Wallett, oversees the Sports Society, the
society is open to all College VI students, it s never to late to join!
Breaking News Congratulations to Joshua Baines who has just
been offered an apprenticeship with Google.
Josh had to compete against 1,000 other
applicants for 1 of 14 places. This is a fantastic
achievement!
Lysistrata
On 25th January, Classics, Latin and Drama students travelled to Warwick
University to see a production of Aristophanes’ ‘Lysistrata’ and attend a series
of related lectures.
The excellent production was directed by a former College VI student, Emma
Johnson and starred another ex-Riddlesdown student, Maheen Rizvi. It was a
thoroughly enjoyable day. Year 12 Latinists and Ms Sowden attended a series
of really helpful lectures on the AS Level set texts at Francis Holland School.
As part of the Holocaust Memorial Day event Stephanie Wright VI/CCS, Catherine Brown VI/TMM, Joshua French VI/SJB and
Elliott Clark VI/NEP attended a ceremony in order to commemorate at the City Hall.
The theme of the day was "Don't Stand By" and we were reminded that our silence in the
face of oppression of others is a crime in itself. We heard from Hannah Lewis, a Holocaust
survivor and from Jean Baptiste Kayigamba, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide as well as
a reading from Boris Johnson.
The event was very touching and it inspired us to pass on the message to our peers and to
appreciate our ability to make a change. The photo on the right features Jennette Arnold
OBE AM, Chair of the London Assembly, Rabbi Raphy Garson who sang a beautiful prayer
song and his wife as well as the students.