Sixth Form Weekly Notes - Monday 22nd March 2021 - Sheldon School

Sixth Form Weekly Notes – Monday 22nd March 2021
                                                   Week 2

Key messages for students:
Good luck Yr13 and remember these assessments are only part of the evidence that will be used.
Most of you are in the sports hall for your exams but please check your emails for details and arrive
at 0820 and 1250 so you are not in a rush.
    • Eat some breakfast before your exams!
    • Remember to get outside and have some down time between assessments.
    • PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR NAMES ON YOUR PAPERS – JUST YOUR CODE. This will help us
       to ensure fairness when marking and moderating work.

Please check and read your emails carefully, especially about lateral flow testing at home - you
should be testing at home before you come in on Monday and again on Thursday (or the evening
before before you go to bed).

Please do not congregate in groups in Old Hardenhuish Lane (or anywhere else). Covid regulations
state that you should only be with one other person and you could get fined. Some of our neighbours
are reporting this to the police.

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Key dates:
    •   w/b 22nd - Yr13 assessment week
    •   Tues 23rd - Yr12 LIVE - assembly Tues afternoon tutor time – ASK apprenticeships
    •   Tues 23rd and Weds 24th – UCAS Discovery Days with lots of sessions about uni,
        apprenticeships etc – see link below
    •   Tues 30th lesson 5 or 6 to be confirmed - Yr12 – University of Bath – introduction to
        university – what to consider and how to get started

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Tutor time activities:

If/when you use the racism and identity video below or the ppt/assembly shared
last week you may also want to consider/pre-empt this discussion:
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/black-lives-matter-essay-why-is-saying-all-lives-
matter-wrong
https://www.bustle.com/articles/171457-how-to-argue-against-saying-all-lives-matter-because-
this-has-got-to-stop

Or this summary of Luke 15 from the bible that did the rounds on social media last year:
There are 100 sheep, but one goes missing.
Jesus leaves the 99 and goes after the one.
The 99: “But… what about us? Don’t we matter?”
Of course, the 99 still matter, but they’re not the ones in danger.
The one is.

 Year        Monday – Post-     Tuesday – Post-     Wednesday –         Thursday –          Friday -
             18                 18                  Post-18             Wellbeing           Social, political
                                                                                            and moral
                                                                                            issues
 12          Check out the      ASK                 UCAS Discovery      Empathy video –     See links below
             line-up for the    apprenticeship      Day continues -     Racism and          – News not in
             UCAS Discovery     LIVE assembly –     events/sessions     Identity.           the news
             Days -             Teams invite        all day!            Featuring –
             https://www.uc     shared                                  reference to
             as.com/events/                                             domestic
             ucasdiscovery-     UCAS Discovery      Optional Weds       violence, racism,
             south-west-        Day –               pm PE               micro-
             south-wales-       events/sessions                         aggression etc.
             389066             all day inc. Dr                         Good links to
             Sign-up for the    Alex George                             the
             event and          from Love Island                        ppt/assembly
             sessions over      and sessions                            shared last
             the next two       about how to                            week.
             days               choose a uni etc                        https://vimeo.c
                                                                        om/497006714

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Revision and Wellbeing Tip of the Week:
                            Plan in your down time / wellbeing time FIRST e.g.
      Plan in a run, a film, some meditation etc each day and THEN plan your revision around it.

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Community, mentoring, volunteering etc:

Don’t forget to watch and donate!

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              Why not twin your grandparent or parent’s vaccine? Get One - Give One
                                    We need to vaccinate the world!!!

                  Please consider donating the cost of a Covid 19 vaccine to Covax
                           https://covaxamc.ctdonate.org/index:payment.html

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Work experience, employment and apprenticeship
opportunities / information:
    •    Jo Brown – our Careers Adviser is available to you all. You can email her directly at
         jbrown@sheldonschool.co.uk to make an appointment or you can drop-in to the Careers
         Hub near the hall on Thursday or Friday lunch times.

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   Virtual Media Lesson with Sony Music
   Bring your students along to interact with employers and learn how they can

apply their curriculum subjects to exciting real life jobs!
   Thursday 25 March, 14:00 - 15:00
   You can join as a class using one device or have all students join
   individually. Just be sure that each student you choose to attend with you
   registers their place using the link below!

                                                 Secure A FREE Place

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University and other opportunities:
UCAS Discovery Days this week - https://www.ucas.com/events/ucasdiscovery-south-west-south-wales-
389066
‘Taking control of your future’ with Dr Alex George

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Newsletter for students: The Unifrog Post.
It's going to feature webinars, details of any events we're running for students, featured Know-How Library
guides, suggestions for wider reading and loads of other practical careers and HE related information. It'll
come out once a fortnight, and it's exclusively for Year 12 and 13s.

Your students in the Sixth Form can sign themselves up right now and the first edition should be coming out
next week.

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News not in the News:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/policing-bill-protest-labour-
                             vote-b1816967.html
Labour to vote against a proposed new set of powers that will curb the right to
 protest branding it an “abusers’ charter” which “fails to criminalise street
harassment, fails to make misogyny a hate crime, fails to raise minimum
sentences for rape or stalking, and fails to give whole life orders to those
 found guilty of abduction and sexual assault and murder of a stranger.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/david-lammys-speech-on-the-policing-bill-will-
                        go-down-in-history/ar-BB1eGcGV

Amazing person of the week:

                      https://www.billymongerracing.co.uk/billywhizz

Still only 21 years old, he has just raised loads of money for Comic Relief by taking on
  a staggering 140-mile walk, kayak and cycle challenge. And all this after having both
                         legs amputated following a crash in 2017

                                Birthdays recently or coming up

                                        Happy Birthday and enjoy your
                                        day!

Pet of the week:

       Thanks to Year 12 psychology for their egg babies this week!