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.