NEWSLETTER w/c 18th May 2020

SIXTH FORM ONLINE

D U R I N G T H E

R E M O T E L E A R N I N G S I T U A T I O N O U R S T U D E N T S A R E

C U R R E N T L Y U S I N G G O O G L E

C L A S S R O O M T O A C C E S S W O R K , I N T E R A C T W I T H T E A C H E R S A N D

G A I N T H E K N O W L E D G E A N D U N D E R S T A N D I N G R E Q U I R E D T O B E

S U C C E S S F U L

LEARNING

GOOGLE CLASSROOM

A-LEVELS

WORK

ACHIEVEMENT

TEACHER NOMINATIONS

SUBJECT PROGRESS

SUCCESS

DEDICATION

ENRICHMENT

UNIVERSITY PREPARATION

CAREER READY

EXTRA CURRICULA

COMPETITIONS

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LEARNING

GOOGLE CLASSROOMS

In Art year 12’s have been researching into different artists for

inspiration. Sarah Taylor’s personal investigation theme is

‘Memories’ she has been studying the techniques of artist Julie

Marie and has produced some excellent examples using the same

technique.

Maths students have been working on

Quantities and Units. Here you can see

that Lucy Plappert has been working

very hard and achieved 100% in her

workings and solutions. Well done!

Sarah

Taylor –

‘Memories’

Year 12 Sociology students

have been undertaking self-

assessment of a 30 mark

question they wrote on how

social class affects educational

achievement.

This week the year 12 Psychology

students have been doing revision

for the different psychological

approaches

This week saw year 12 Business Studies students complete a

research project on entrepreneurial characteristics and their

response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

In Economics Students were invited to attend Economics

seminars which are ongoing through the month of May to help

prepare for University studies.

The Photography students have been experimenting this week,

using art and digital techniques to create mesmerising images that

are not only fascinating, but they seem to have hypnotic powers

by creating a sense of calm and relaxation.

The students in Computer Science have been revisiting the

Fundamentals of Computer Organisation and Architecture:

• Internal Hardware Components

• Structure and Role of the processor and its components

• Interrupts and Factors affecting processor performance

• External Hardware Devices

In History this week students have been finishing off the USA

topic by covering Civil Rights in the early 1950s. Next week

revision!

The class in Geography has been working on building a London

Docklands case study for their Changing Places module. They will

be comparing how Southend and London Docklands have

changed overtime and investigating how the regeneration has

affected the character and demographics of these contrasting

areas.

5

4.

What we

have once

enjoyed we

can never

lose. All that

we love

deeply

becomes a

part of us

ACHIEVEMENT TEACHER NOMIATIONS Mr Hagger - History – Farouk Hamdan – for

working well into the night.

Mrs Smith – Art – Sarah Taylor - she has produced

great work, all the work on the year 12 art page is

hers.

Mrs Rayment – Photography - Lucy Plappert - for

understanding the tasks set and producing some

great experimemtations this week using art and

digital techniques!

Mrs Reeve– Business – Elana Ginger – Elana’s work

was shortlisted for the social distancing marketing

competition so well done to her. Andzelika Kramarz

- she has completed outstanding work on our

research project on Entrepreneurial characteristics

and their response to the Covid 19 pandemic.

Mr Rooza - Farouk Hamdan

Mr Bukwirwa and Mr Raza - Maths - Lucy Plapper

- for consistently working hard and having a positive

attitude to learning. Resulting in achieving 71% on

her Stats Assessment. Abdifitaah Hossein – for

coming 2nd in the Stats Assessment, working hard

in Mechanics: SI Units and in the Correlation Stats.

Mrs Patmore – Sociology & Psychology – Emily

Millis, for trying hard with her sociology essay.

For psychology, Shivona Chellakootty for getting

up to date with everything and producing some

really excellent exam answers.

Mr Barclay and Miss Chapman – Biology - Fahmida

Ahmed

Mr Donovan – Geography - Katie Blogg

and Abdifitaah Hossein

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ENRICHMENT

STUDENT NOMINATIONS:

The yr12 students were asked to nominate a teacher that they

felt has been supportive and helping them:

Bethany Stott - Mr Andrews for being extremely

understanding and going absolutely above and beyond to

teach us.

Georgia Murray - Mr Hagger for providing podcasts every

lesson to provide additional information for our topic

alongside the textbook.

Joe Gardner – Mr Heafield

Isabelle Thorn - Mr Andrews for the fact he is making sure we

get taught as best as we can through all this and for helping

us all keep a positive mindset

Lucy Plappert - Mrs Reeves and Mr Raza for always being on

hand to give us extra support that we need.

Thank you to all the sixth form teachers for their continued

work hard, help, support and engagment!