FESTIVAL OF IDEAS
“AN INSPIRING FUTURE” 13-17 NOVEMBER 2017 A week of inspirational events for all members of the school community, designed to make you think, question and enjoy learning from leaders in their fields
MONDAY 13 NOVEMBER
HEIDI MEYER 12.05pm - 1.15pm Sixth Form Centre Common Room Year 12 talk Heidi Meyer, Master of Lord Leycester Hospital, will talk to Year 12 about her career and life experiences.
1.15pm - 2.15pm Octagon Hobbs Society Girls are invited to come and talk to Heidi Meyer about her career and being a female role model in a male dominated world.
Heidi Meyer is the first female Master of the Lord Leycester Hospital in the hospital’s 450 year history. She has previously spent 35 years working abroad, including for the US Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon, and the US Embassy in Afghanistan. Before her move to the Lord Leycester Hospital, she was a senior political advisor to the commander of NATO Land Forces in Turkey.
TUESDAY 14 NOVEMBER
KATE
ROMANO 8.45am - 9.35am Hall Year 7 and SK/SH Music Workshop with Kate Romano 9.20am - 10.30am Hall Years 7 and 9 Music workshop with Kate Romano
10.55am - 3.45pm Music Department Music workshop with all GCSE and A Level Musicians with Kate Romano
Noted as ‘’one of the most versatile musicians of her generation’’, Kate is a clarinetist, producer, fundraiser and writer. Previously a senior member of academic staff at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for 12 years, she is currently the artistic director of Goldfield Productions. Kate holds a doctorate in composition, is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 and performs widely as a chamber musician.
This day-long event brings together live music, story-telling and art in order to show how simple, cost-effective ideas can be realised and turned into powerful, evocative and inspirational pieces of touring theatre. The day explores artistic/ aesthetic issues in cross-arts productions, collaborative working, and opens up fresh ideas, perspective and insights into what a creative career in the arts and music might look like.
WEDNESDAY 15
NOVEMBER
TOM HARRISON 2.35pm - 3.10pm Hall Years 7, 8 and 9 Talk from Tom Harrison on Character Education 3.10pm - 3.45pm Hall Years 10 and 11 Talk from Tom Harrison on Character Education
4.00pm - 5.00pm Hall Staff Inset Workshop on Character Education led by Tom Harrison 6.00pm - 7.OOpm Parent’s Forum Parents are welcome to join Tom Harrison for a workshop and talk on Character Education.
Tom Harrison, the Director of Education in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham. The Jubilee Centre is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre focusing on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing. Tom leads on all the applied research projects – working with schools, colleges, employers, voluntary sector organisations and policy makers across Britain, as well as internationally. His specialist interests are character education and virtue ethics, character, virtue and the internet, youth social action and citizenship.
Tom will be talking about character education and how we can teach our girls character and values such as curiosity, confidence, risk taking and resilience.
FRIDAY 17
NOVEMBER
HELEN RICHARDSON
WALSH 8.45am - 9.20am Hall Whole School Assembly with Helen Richardson-Walsh 9.20am - 10.30am KHS Astroturf Year 6 Hockey Session with Helen Richardson-Walsh
10.55am - 12.05pm Octagon A Level PE students and Talented Athlete Programme pupils from all year groups will talk with Helen Richardson-Walsh about her experiences and balancing elite level sport with academia 12.05pm - 1.15pm KHS Astroturf Year 8 Hockey session with Helen Richardson-Walsh
Helen Richardson-Walsh is one of the most experienced members of the GB team, having competed in four Olympics. She is recognised at world level as one of the best in the business – shortlisted for the World Player of the Year award in 2010 and being named in the FIH World All Stars three times, in 2009, 2010 and 2011. She was part of the team that won silver in the 2012 Champions Trophy and bronze at the 2010 World Cup in Argentina. When she played at the 2000 Olympic Games, she was the youngest British woman to represent GB in Hockey at an Olympics.
Helen is currently studying Psychology at the Open University. She overcame two back surgeries to play a pivotal role in England’s EuroHockey gold medal triumph in 2015 and then capped things off with a starring role in Great Britain’s Olympic gold medal triumph at Rio 2016.
FRIDAY 17
NOVEMBER PROFESSOR
ELAINE
FOX 2.15pm - 3.30pm Hall Year 12 Celebration of Achievement Professor Elaine Fox will talk to Year 12 and their parents before presenting certificates to the girls for their GCSE and Duke of Edinburgh’s Scheme achievements.
4.15pm - 5.15pm Main Hall INSPIRE Lecture All pupils and parents are invited to join Professor Elaine Fox for a talk on the science of optimism, followed by a book signing of her latest book, Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain.
Elaine Fox is a psychologist and neurologist who has researched widely on the science of emotions. She has always been fascinated by why some people are very resilient and can deal with whatever life throws at them, while others are fragile and at risk of developing anxiety and depression. She grew up in Dublin and has worked at St James Hospital Dublin, University College Dublin, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and the University of Essex where she was Head of the Department of Psychology & Centre for Brain Science from 2007- 2010, before moving to the University of Oxford in 2013.
Elaine is currently a Research Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Emotions & Affective Neuroscience (OCEAN), where she leads a program of research combining cognitive psychology, neuroimaging, and genetics. Elaine has published widely on the scientific aspects of fear, anxiety, optimism, and optimal mental health and her work, which has appeared in many leading scientific journals, has been summarized for the non-specialist in RAINY BRAIN, SUNNY BRAIN: The New Science of Optimism and Pessimism.
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