Peter Davison

Well done and good luck to the five students who are taking part in interviews at Oxbridge, as well as the four students (two of which are also for Oxbridge) who are interviewing for a place at medical school. Hopefully all the interview preparation and advice we provide as part of our OxNet hub programme …

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Our Year 13 Psychology students attended their annual trip to Leeds for an AQA exam booster workshop. The conference, held in VUE Leeds, stretched and challenged students on their content knowledge of Psychology and refined their revision skills in preparation for their summer finals.

A selection of Year 12 students spent a week at Nissan working on a Formula 1 project. They designed miniature F1 racing cars learning how to use brand new programming software and apply engineering theories to their designs before testing them as scaled down models to see which worked best.

Thank you to Professor Keith Wrightson who has joined us all the way from Yale University in America to speak with Sixth Form History and English Literature students. The Professor spoke about the English Civil War, discussing its consequences that we still live with to this day and answered questions from the class about his insight into …

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Over the last few weeks students from Year 10 had the chance to test out a variety of Sixth Form taster lessons. Pupils tried out topics such as Art and Photography, Business, Computing, Health and Social Care, Psychology, Biology, Literature and Sociology in order to pique their interest when they come to consider further study.

David Hodgson, founder of ‘The Buzz’ personality quiz, visited Year 12. He gave them an insight into how to make the most out of Sixth Form, specifically by understanding their own personality types. Students completed a personality quiz based on the Myers-Briggs personality theory and found out which animal they were – be it sea …

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