Early Applicants Progress Update

This morning I have been working through all of your references and noting where the gaps are and what more needs to be done.  I plan to do the same tomorrow and first thing on Thursday morning. 

By the middle of the day on Thursday I hope to have filled most of the gaps, and to be ready to start sending some of your forms, with more to follow on the Friday and Monday. I will call you when I am ready.  In the meantime, please make sure that you have finalised your personal statement and have paid and sent.  I am not sure that I am going to make my own internalised deadline of Thursday 8th for all of you, but don't worry, we are on track to meet the real UCAS deadline of Thursday 15th October. 

Mentoring Scheme

Hi,

All of those Sixth Formers who have registered as Mentors your volunteering starts today. Please could the listed students please meet in the common room during tutor time today, please make sure you register first.

Remember, it is essential that you are all committed to the scheme, your mentees have been carefully selected for you by heads of colleges and we believe that this scheme will be a real benefit to the pupils you will mentor. We are currently waiting for the Vinspired to register us as a school and you can then log your volunteering hours on there and get a volunteering qualification, an extra string to your bow as they say.

Good Luck and I will see you all there.

Miss Bristow

Ameera Sarwar

Anica Begum

Holly Napier

Husna Elarabi

Kyeisha Nero

Lauren Menzel

Solomon Ottino

Umar Hayar

Will Coles

Hashim Dogar

Hebe York

Romela Imran

Roy Rangarirui

Tilly Burns

Denis Stafa

Jude Blake

Kate Williamson

Kitty Walsh

Lola Grimbly

Morgan Leaver

Naomi Hindley

Nicole Caranzo

Ruby Sherington Smith

Sami Khawaja

Serene Shali

Tom Ryan

Abdi Salam

Asam Iqbal

Emily Wilcox

Isobel Grace

Jodie Meeson

Josh Horn

Marion Oke

Tom Dowes

Daisy Schirmacher

Holly Blyth

Ikra Ahmed

Lauren Grayson

Beth Czajewski

Christina Limbu

Magnus Learke-Hall

Megan Anderson

Priya Amin

Rasaan Nafaa

EPQ Presentation Evening Friday 16th October

All members of the Sixth Form are very welcome to attend the Extended Project Presentation evening from 6 to 8.30pm on Friday 16th October, in Lane Building.  There will be a variety of very interesting projects being presented on topics from supercontinents to Singaporean education, and from the Nature of Time to Obama's China policy. 

If you are planning to take the EPQ next year, you should definitely attend - it is much the best way of seeing what the end product will be. 

URGENT - Class Civ students, please complete and return asap

Dr L Robinson, Director of the East Oxford Community Classics Centre

30 September 2015

Trip to the Aegean World Gallery - Wednesday 7 October

Dear Parents/Carers

On Wednesday 7 October the Classical Civilisation AS group will be visiting the Ashmolean Museum to see the collection of Minoan artefacts in the Aegean World Gallery.

While there, they will have a talk by Dr Philomen Probert on the extensive Linear B tablet collection. This is a really exciting opportunity to see some of the relics we have been exploring over the past two sessions.

We will set out on foot from school promptly at 1.30pm so students will need to come straight to L14 from Period 5 on Wednesday instead of Tutor Time. The tour will finish at 3pm, at which point students can make their own way home from town.

The trip is has no costs as entrance to the Museum is free, and we are travelling by foot.

If you would like your son / daughter to attend and you give them parental permission to do so, please fill out the slip below and bring it to the School Shop by Tuesday 6 October.

If you have any questions about the trip itself or the East Oxford Community Classics Centre at Cheney School, please feel welcome to contact me on the email address below.

Yours faithfully

Dr Lorna Robinson

lorna@irisproject.org.uk

                                                                                                                                                           

Trip to the Aegean World Gallery – Wednesday 7 October

Name of Student:                                                       Tutor Group:                                                  

I confirm that I give my son/daughter permission to attend the above trip.

Signed:                                                                       Date:                                      

Print name:                                                                 Emergency contact no (parent):                               

Emergency contact no (student):                                          

Details of any student medical condition:                                                                                                      

Engineering, Law, Computing or Architecture at university

Please let DGi know if you want to take up this offer. 

Professional Degree Courses Conference, Saturday 17^th October

for pupils planning to study Engineering, Law, Computing or Architecture at university

 

I am writing to invite up to ten of your Year 12 and Year 13 pupils to this year’s Vocational Degree Courses Conference, which will take place on Saturday 17^th October, 9.30am-12.30pm at Magdalen College School.

 

The event is targeted at pupils who are planning to study Engineering, Law, Computing or Architecture at university. The purpose of the event is to provide insight into the variety of careers each of these degree courses may lead to, and also to give help and advice on the application process. The morning will run from 9.30-12.30. There will be a separate programme for each degree subject, and the morning will consist of mini-lectures by professionals in each area who will offer insight into their career path way, together with interactive workshops led by academic experts in their field. For Lower Sixth pupils, the academic sessions are designed to offer further insight into what study of their chosen subject might involve, and how best to prepare themselves for a university application; for Upper Sixth pupils, the focus of academics’ sessions will be on looking at problems and case studies of the sort pupils might meet at interview or as undergraduates.

Mentoring

Thank you to all  those who attended the mentor training yesterday after school. The matching will now take place on Monday tutor time in the common room due to more people signing up and the PP assemblies that are taking place this week.

Thank you
Miss Bristow

Dr Will Wootton (KCL) visiting tomorrow (Thursday 1st October)

This is a reminder that Dr Will Wootton, lecturer in Roman Art at King's College London, will be available at lunch time on Thursday 1st October in L14 to chat to any students who would like to find out more about studying at King's College London.

Many thanks.