5-Minute Bulletin

Enrichment Opportunities:

• Students have the opportunity to lead on clubs and co-lead clubs of their choice (application forms outside Sixth Form Support). A group of Year 12 students have begun a new club for lower school ‘Crochet and Craft’
• Literacy Intervention will be continuing next term for Year 12 students.
• We are looking for a group of Year 12 and 13 students to support our Sixth Form Social Media launch.
• We are looking for a group of students to support and set up a Gaming Club during lunch times in the library.
• Debate Club is welcoming new members with a bi-weekly topic on display in tutor rooms.

For more information please email or questions about Enrichment beth.willmore@coundoncourt.org.

Updates and Reminders:

• All Enrichment must be logged on Unifrog in as much detail as possible.
• Remember to ensure you have your lanyard on show at all times that you are on school site.
• Punctuality - a reminder that lateness to any lesson will mean that students need to make up that time before leaving the school site.
• EPQ - Deadlines approaching for Year 13 students:
• Mock exam dates 20th and 27th January

Careers opportunities:

https://summerschools.suttontrust.com/how-to-apply/

Pathways2Properties:

Sign up for experience day and possible university bursary programme:

https://live.henley.ac.uk/page/p2p-students

Oxford Online Maths Club:

Free interactive and relaxed weekly livestream on Thursday afternoons, with regular host Dr James Munro often joined by Oxford students:

https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/outreach/oxford-online-maths-club

Spring into STEM 2.0: Making a difference through engineering::

From manufacturing to medicine, Spring into STEM will feature two TED-style talks by experts at UCL East Campus.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/study/spring-stem-20

UCL Architecture Taster Day:

UCL is hosting a taster architecture workshop/lecture in-person during February half term. Deadline to apply is Friday 14th Feb:

https://qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_e5478LaW8bA1Rbw

For more information please see the Sixth Form Support Team.

Celebrating Student Success - Shout-outs From Last Term:

Amber Nain - excellent performance during Culture Evening.

Libby Breadmore, Bob Kibarabara, Summer Cook and Jonathan Yeboah for their excellent performances at the Christmas Concert.

Tutees of the Term:

12WKN - Jake Chappelow
12ADN - Corey Hartwell
12PER - Shayan Hartwell
12CAL - Kiran Osborne
12FRA - Holly Mclellan
12ALD - Harleen Randhawa

13HAV - Muhammad Kebba Keita
13LAW - Jessica Turner
13MSC - Molly May Baggott
14HAK - Anya Dewitt
13JMS - Eve Williamson

Work Experience Shout-outs:

Winner Obuere-Wilson
Charlie Ali
Charlie Hooks

Student Council for their excellent work this term: Launching TikTok, supporting the public speaking workshop, fundraising and much more.

Volunteer Shout-outs:

To over 80 students who supported our Sixth Form Open Evening!

The following students for supporting at the Year 9 Parents Evening: Yasin Nutlu, George Cooper, Charlie Ali, Nihhitas Chaauhun, Shayin Nisar, Blake Billingham, Christian Thiyagaraba, Kiran Osborne.

Sixth Form Student Council for supporting our External Candidates Interview evening on Wednesday 22nd January

Current and Upcoming Trips and Visits:

Coundon Court Sixth Form Library had a visit from an undergraduate student attending Harvard University who came to speak with our students about the process of applying to American universities.

Our Year 12 Early Entry Group of students will be visiting Oxford University later this term.

Psychology students attended a visit to Warwick University on 17th January.

On Friday 24th January Miss Perry organised for a visitor from the Crime Analysis Unit from the Home Office to speak to Criminology students.

On 25th February, Miss Perry organised a guest speaker to come to Coundon to speak with Criminology students. The talk will be on Criminal Profiling and led by Professor Craig Jackson, a lecturer at Birmingham City University. Other humanities subjects will also be invited to attend.

Safeguarding and wellbeing for Sixth Form students:

Get free, anonymous and safe support:

https://www.kooth.com/

Offering online and in-person support for mental health and wellbeing (MHWB)

https://cwmind.org.uk/supporting-children-and-young-people/

A new service offering
drop-ins for support.

Enrichment opportunities:

• Students have the opportunity to lead on clubs and co-lead clubs of their choice (application forms outside Sixth Form Support).
• We will be appointing a new Sixth Form student council next term (more information to be communicated through assembly first week back)
• We will be launching societies for students as part of the tutor time programme.

For more information please email or questions about Enrichment beth.willmore@coundoncourt.org.

Careers opportunities:

• All opportunities are on our Onenote for students to access - this is updated regularly and they have access to this during study skills sessions.

Current and upcoming trips and visits:

Medicine Trip:

On Thursday 13^th March 10 of our Year 12 students visited University Hospital Coventry and Warwick (UHCW) for the day in order to gain practical skills in suturing, dexterity, identifying various parts of the anatomy and building teamwork skills. Over 100 medical students from across the city took part in the practical experience day.

The following students attended the trip: Ambreen, Priyanka, Lily, Corey, Jenna, Jasmine, Dima, Mustafa, Aleena, Sokaina, Priscilla and Shanae with Mr Ferris gained a range of practical skills as well as key information on applying for medicine through UCAS.

Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award – Practice Expedition

The following Year 12 students enjoyed taking part in their practice expedition for Duke of Edinburgh on Wednesday 19^th March: Siddant Naique, Mohammad Ahmadyar, Joshua Akhtar, Pavnick Bains, Ami Bines, Lily Bolton, Libby Breadmore, Megan Brown, Penny Chapman, Jenna Fletcher, Jenna Harris, Charlie Hooks, Jananey Kenthesuvran, Dmilare Lawal, Isobel Lord, Amber McBriety, Amber Nain, Kiran Osborne, Jasmine Patel, Dhruv Rajput, Dima Ramazan, Harleen Randhawa, Molly Rowley, Agamjot Singh, Zachery Tamne-Hinson, Mustafa Torabi, Jeny Vigneswaran, Priyanka Virdee, Emily Wood.

At the end of the talk, a group of students stayed after the assembly  to build contacts and requested LinkedIn details to help them further their connections. Students will have the opportunity to further explore routes into apprenticeships and university study during tutor time this week. 

The practice expedition took place at Berkswell. Students are preparing for their upcoming 3 day expedition at the end of the year. Mr Walker, Miss Worral, Mr Murley and Mr Swinfield were all involved in supporting the students during their expedition.

RAF Careers Talk:

On Wednesday 2^nd April Sgt Adam Clayton came in to speak to the year 12 students about careers in the RAF and the application process. Sgt Clayton gave an informative and interesting assembly on the vast and varied careers that the RAF offers and the wonderful opportunities available to students after they complete their A Levels. There are 61 jobs available in the RAF with some fantastic benefits and travel opportunities. Students enjoyed learning about what the RAF could offer and several students stayed after assembly to ask questions.  

Year 12 - Finance week - Bank of England Talk:

Year 12 had an external speaker in to visit for finance week on Wednesday 26^th March. We were lucky to be visited by a representative from the Bank of England to discuss the finance industry as well as careers in accounting and finance. Many of our students are interested in studying this topic after they finish their sixth form studies.

At the end of the talk, a group of students stayed after the assembly  to build contacts and requested LinkedIn details to help them further their connections. Students will have the opportunity to further explore routes into apprenticeships and university study during tutor time this week. 

Updates and Reminders:

• If you need to leave site for any reason or cannot come to school you must get parents/carers to contact Miss Checklin
• Ensure you are catching up on any missed work with teachers
• EPQ continuing this term - please ensure you attend the sessions after school on Wednesdays
• We have a Sixth Form Instagram page - please follow to keep up to date with everything related to SF

Celebrating Student Success - Shoutouts From Last Term:

Volunteer Shoutouts  - Y10 Parents evening support:

Nisar Ali Anbari, Lexie-May George, Ruby Morris, Sophie Hyde, Ami Bines. Damilare Lawal, Yasin Mutlu, Charlie Ali.

Presentation winners:

Amber Nain
Dylan Cunningham
Damilare Lawal
Blessing Ayinde
Harleen Randhawa
Felicity McPherson
Jenna Harris
Daliksana Jeyakumar
Winner Obuene-Wilson
Mercy Ayinde
Aleena Nasar
Jake Chappelow
Yuyao Huang

Safeguarding and Wellbeing for Sixth Form Students:

Police Safeguarding Information Visit:

All of our Year 12 students received a careers talk from the West Midlands Police Talk on Friday 14^th March by DC Rowley. Students were given information about the wide range of career opportunities available through the Police and how best to prepare for the process of applying for police roles as well as safeguarding talk about how to keep safe online. 

 Get free, anonymous and safe support: https://www.kooth.com/

Offering online and in-person support for mental health and wellbeing (MHWB) https://cwmind.org.uk/supporting-children-and-young-people/ A new service offering drop-ins for support.