SIXTH FORM NEWS

Hello everyone! My name is Julia and I am very happy to have the opportunity to write to you all every week updating you about life in the Sixth Form for this term. I applied to be a member of the Head Girl Team because I wanted to be a representative for the school. I am passionate about the wellbeing of every student at St Teresa’s and I aspire to be someone who anyone feels comfortable talking to.

Julia T - Deputy Head Girl

Last Friday, we welcomed back Teresa Baron for the Year 12 PSHE to receive another one of her informative talks on healthy relationships. A lot of things were discussed in the talk, such as unfair double standards for men and women, the features of healthy relationships, and differing gender portrayals in advertising. She spoke to several other year groups, and we all found it very interesting. Aleisha A

On Tuesday afternoon this week in the Sixth Form, we had our first Senior Prefect meeting where our Academic, Pastoral and Values Senior Prefects shared their ideas for the upcoming year. They already have great plans such as developing form time with interactive activities to start the day, introducing an ‘academic buddy’ system to promote kindness and peer to peer academic support within the school and “Universally Challenged”, a teacher vs student quiz to celebrate our Year of Intellect. On Tuesday evening there was an Explore Lecture about Interior Design in celebration of our value of the year.

I would like to say a big congratulations to our Year 13 students because, on Wednesday, they finished their mock exams! They have worked so hard and, as a treat, they attended a wonderful meditative Sound Bath on Friday afternoon. We are so proud of you all!

On Thursday afternoon the whole Student Leadership Team met to share their aim for this term. We learnt about lots of exciting projects that are in the planning stages at the moment. I look forward to sharing more information with you about the projects over the coming weeks. An example for this week is from our wonderful Art Captain Neve who is launching an exciting new Art Enrichment Club, starting on Wednesday 8th March in Room 25 for all students to unleash their creativity. She was inspired by female artists for International Women’s Day which is next week. She has also started up a photography competition, where you can submit a photo that fits the design brief of ‘The Natural World”. She has emailed all students about this and we look forward to seeing the results of the winning entries later on this term.

Wishing everyone an enjoyable weekend and I look forward to updating you about life in the Sixth Form again next week.

Julia T Deputy Head Girl