In2Science Opportunity

Drama Opportunity for Year 12

THE CAMBRIDGE FOOTLIGHTS Year 12 workshop- Places granted on a first-come, first-served basis.

This July Oxford Festival of the Arts are delighted to be hosting a FREE workshop with The Cambridge Footlights for local Year 12 pupils. The workshop will be run by members of the cast and crew of the famous Footlights Tour. Pupils will gain the tools they need to write their own comedy sketches, and develop their understanding of character and comedic narrative. For those interested, Footlights will also be able to answer any questions pupils may have about comedy and theatre beyond school, and theatre and comedy provisions as motivations for applying to Oxbridge.

Date: 4^th of July

Time: 4:00-5:30

Please contact Mr Gimson if you are interested.

Al Jazeera's Head to Head recordings

We have been invited again to bring students for the audience of the recording of Al Jazeera's Head to Head debate programme, recorded at the Oxford Union. The event is free but you need to sign up through me and you will need signed parental permission if you are under 18.

You need to let me know at least 10 days in advance if you intent to go (and you must show up - or they'll have empty seats in the recording and stop inviting us!!)

You will need to let me know by Friday if you want to come on 10th June. You will meet us there on St Michael's street (off Cornmarket) at 6.30pm. Email me for more info on the topics.

Thanks, Miss Gleen

Sunday 10^th June, 7.30pm

Main guest: Germaine Greer – public intellectual and feminist icon

Topics: The #MeToo movement and current feminist debates

Tuesday 12^th June, 7.30pm

Main guest: Dambisa Moyo – economist and bestselling author

Topics: The state of Western liberal democracy, and how to fix it

Sunday 8^th July, 7.30pm

Main guest: Dore Gold - President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, former Director-General of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and former advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Topics: The Israel-Palestine conflict, and the Iran deal

Friday 13^th July, 7.30pm

Main guest: J.D. Gordon - Director of National Security for the Trump campaign, and former Pentagon spokesman

Topics: The Trump presidency, including US foreign and domestic policy, and the Russia scandal

YEAR 12 Assembly in Canteen today (TUESDAY)

Year 12 Assembly is at 2.30 in the Canteen today. We will be giving out important information about your Predictor Exams - please attend and sit in your tutor groups. Thanks.

Here are the links:

http://www.artsfestivaloxford.org/whats-on/film-1

https://www.facebook.com/events/171659437000048/

STUDENT LEADERSHIP TEAM - IMPORTANT UPDATE

We will announce the shortlist of students tomorrow (Friday 18 May). Successful shortlisted students will be invited to a group task on MONDAY 21 May 3.30-4.30pm in the Sixth Form Foyer. 

We extend the deadline for applications for Tutor Group 12TU5 (Ms Cox & Ms Figuieredo) ONLY until 11 am on Friday 18 May. 12Tu5 - please pick up the application booklets from your tutor today.

Castaways - production

Information for Year 12

Please continue to work on your Personal Statements. There have been some dramatic improvements between Draft One and Draft Two and we need to continue this process.  It is very hard to write about yourself. The main thing is to use facts not claims. The reason for getting a good draft done now is that if you want have more facts, you have time to do so.

Students who want to continue and complete an EPQ are invited to L14 every Thursday after school from Thursday 21^st June for the remaining five Thursdays. You will need to attend – and to talk with Dr Rayment and I regularly if you want to take your EPQ to completion in the autumn. The main thing is to be ready to write – and to have set aside a week to do so – over the summer. 

There will be a number of opportunities for students applying for competitive courses from 18^th June onwards. If you are hoping to apply for Medicine, Law, Engineering or any university course like to ask AAB or better, please come to L14 punctually at 1pm on Friday 18^th May for a briefing.  In the meantime, please note the opportunities below:

Law: Chloe Romanis, a former Cheney student currently starting a Masters in Law at Manchester, will be visiting on Monday 18^th June, and will be available to talk to aspirant lawyers from 12noon to 2.50, after which she will chair a debate with Year Twelve debaters.  Please e-mail me if you would like to meet with Chloe

Medicine:  there is an opportunity to attend a UKCAT course at Headington School – I have e-mailed all the aspirant medics who have signed up for previous opportunities though I don’t have a complete list – please send me an e-mail with the header ‘UKCAT Headington’ so that I can add you – I don’t want to miss anyone out, but some of you are much more proactive about getting in touch with me that others. It is essential that you read the blog and act on it.

Georgia Howlett, who wrote a very strong Medicine Personal Statement, and is currently doing a Foundation Medicine Year at Nottingham, will be visiting Cheney on Friday 22^nd June during Period Two and break and I would like all aspirant medics to attend. Please e-mail me (with the header ‘Georgia Howlett 22^nd June’)to confirm that you can do this. 

Environmental Science:   there is a very exciting free opportunity at the Environmental Change Institute – see the poster outside L4.  You can apply directly but please copy me in – very happy to advise on your letters of application. 

Oxbridge Interviews:  Cathy O’Neill, who is a very experienced interview trainer, will be running a session for potential Oxbridge candidates after school on Thursday 21^st June. (This will clash with EPQ but I will those with a clash separately – please prioritise Mrs O’Neill’s session.  Please confirm your attendance via e-mail with the header ‘Interview Preparation’

Community Service opportunity:  if you are happy to dress up as a Suffrage activitist (or opponent, top hats provided) for an hour on the Year Six transition day on 5^th or 6^th July, please contact Dr Robinson. 

Meeting for Early Applicants

If you are interested in any competitive course at universities which will demand AAB or better, it is essential that you come to L14 for a meeting on Friday 18^th May. There are a number of important opportunities which I want you all to know about.  Do bring your lunch.

Mindfulness sessions for Year 12 & 13

We are able to offer three Mindfulness sessions in the run up to exams starting this Thursday 10 May, 3.00-4.00pm. If you are interested, please come and see me to sign up - or talk to your tutor at Tutor Time.

Year 13 transition letter from School Nurse, Sue Bolton

Although your links with Secondary Education may be finishing, the help and support you have received from NHS Services will continue and it is now more important than ever that you know how to access these yourself. Please read through the attached letter which we will also hand out in the Y13Assembly on Thursday 10 May.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SlP1Lb6LSilxOtKCgboG9Ss6Ty-MbSwv/view?usp=sharing

Nuffield Research Placement - opportunity for Year 12 students

EXPERIENCE RESEARCH IN ACTION NUFFIELD RESEARCH PLACEMENTS

Spend your summer holiday developing your research and quantitative skills on a short project that  will enhance your university application and career prospects

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Are you over 16 and in full-time education in the UK?

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Do you have at least five GCSEs or Scottish Nationals at grade B/Grade 6 or above, including maths, a science subject, and English or another humanities subject?

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Do you want to apply your scientific and data knowledge and skills to

a real-world research project?

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Are you studying one or more A-levels or Scottish Highers (or equivalent) in science, technology, engineering or maths?

If this sounds like you then a Nuffield Research Placement could be the perfect way to spend your summer.

LOOK AT OUR WEBSITE

Visit www.nuffieldfoundation.org/nrp to find out more about Nuffield Research Placements and to decide whether to apply.

Y12 Assembly - today 2.30pm in Assembly Hall

Please sit in your Tutor Groups. Thanks.

Teacher absence - all Sixth Form lessons now covered

From this point on, all Sixth Form lessons will be covered when staff are absent. We hope that this will make sure you have a suitable working environment so that your learning is not negatively affected by staff absences. Please go promptly to your normal room to be registered. Depending on what is appropriate, staff may take you to another room (eg, if you need to use computers). You are expected to remain with your group and cover teacher for the whole lesson, and complete the set work for the subject.

Debate on future of UK outside the EU - Brookes 22/5 - 1-3pm

The Brexit Generation: A debate on the UK’s future outside of the EU to be held on Tuesday 22 May, 1pm-3pm at Union Hall, Gipsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University

  

This free event - as part of Think Human Festival at Oxford Brookes University - is aimed at secondary school and sixth form students interested in history, geography, politics, public speaking, business and current affairs but also more generally in their own future in a UK outside the EU.

The format will be loosely based on BBC's Question Time so that the students themselves set the agenda and ask the questions - about Brexit and the UK's future - that they want answers to.  Students will have the opportunity to submit their questions up until a week before the debate and from these a selection will be chosen. 

The debate will be chaired by Dr Stephen Hurt, Senior Lecturer in International Relations. Dr Hurt will be joined by a panel of academics and policymakers who will give their answers to these questions and debate with the audience. Confirmed panel members so far are Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford), Dr Mikko Kuisma (University of Tübingen, Germany), Sam Lowe (Centre for European Reform) and Layla Moran (MP for Oxford West and Abingdon).

If you have any further questions about the event please feel free to email Dr Stephen Hurt, shurt@brookes.ac.uk 

• Please register your interest by completing this Google Form
• Fill in an lesson absence request form if you are going to miss P5/TT - available outside the Sixth Form Office

Neuroscience/philosophy seminar series at St. Hilda's College, Oxford

St. Hilda's College is running another event in its Neuroscience/philosophy seminar series on Thurs 10th May 5-7.15pm entitled 'Time and the Brain'. Please register (for free) on the link below if you would like to go along.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brain-and-mind-event-time-and-the-brain-tickets-45381358866?aff=es2

Venue: Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Cowley Place, OX4 1DY.