Category Archives: Announcements

Elevate Me – careers advice in Reading

Elevate Me is the place for 16-24 year olds in Reading to get help, advice and support on employment, work experience, volunteering and mentoring.  It is an all-encompassing site bringing together support and advice from many of the agencies operating … Continue reading

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Are you Safe Online?

Interesting article on staying safe online, specifically about log ins and passwords. You can access the article by clicking here. Thanks  

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Student Questionnaire on Note Taking

As part of the schools teaching and learning week we are analysing how students take notes in lessons and how you organise them.  The questionnaire will allow us to gain an understanding of the different ways students collect notes and … Continue reading

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Week of 10th November

Year 12 have Safe Drive on Monday, so no assembly.  Year 13, you have an assembly on Tuesday in the main hall about the Rwanda Fund raising day.  See last week’s post for a link to the recent controversial documentary. … Continue reading

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w/b 4.11

No assemblies this week, but we will be having one for Year 13 next week on our Rwanda charity.  There was a recent documentary about the events of 20 years ago on BBC2 which has caused lots of controversy.  Have … Continue reading

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Lessons from Auschwitz Project

We have been written to by the Holocaust Educational Trust where they are offering for two sixth form students to participate in our Lessons from Auschwitz Project.  It is a four part course which aims to educate about the events … Continue reading

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UCAS systems maintenance 24 – 27 October 2014

To enable us to make changes for the 2015 application cycle, the following services will be unavailable from 18:00 on Friday 24 October to 08:00 on Monday 27 October: Apply for advisers Adviser Track Application Tracker For applicants – UCAS … Continue reading

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Sexual Health Sixth Form Campaign Competition

Protect and Respect – competition for sixth formers to promote good sexual health West Berkshire Council’s Public Health team are inviting sixth forms in the area to take part in a competition to design and create a sexual health awareness … Continue reading

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Future Learn

This is a timely reminder that there are some excellent free online courses that are offered via Future Learn.  These are online courses organised and run by universities that enable you to expand your knowledge in certain areas or improve … Continue reading

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Barclays Lifeskills

Barclays have produced some excellent resources to help young people become more employable.  They have advice on how to produce a CV, the do’s and don’ts of interviews, personal skills, work experience advice, work experience placements.  All you need to … Continue reading

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