Wellsway Sixth Form Newsletter 2016-17 Issue 1 Welcome! This is just a quick way of keeping you up to date with events in the Sixth Form over the coming year – it doesn’t cover everything but it gives you a flavour of what has been going on! I hope you have had a great start to the new academic year! Mr Bray Director of Sixth Form
Open Evening Wednesday 12th October 2016 6 - 8pm
May/June 2016 Leavers Leavers Assembly
Leavers Breakfast
Leavers Dinner – first dance rehearsal…. ….then party!
July 2016 Leadership Training Day Year 12 went to Somerset for our annual Leadership Training Day. It was, as ever, immense! The sun was unfortunately not shining (but it was dry at least!) as the students (and staff) got stuck into a series of events that tested planning, teamwork, patience, skill, creativity, problem solving and more!
July 2016 Y12 Enrichment Week A packed week where we created and ran…… A Careers Fair with employers / apprenticeship providers in a wide variety of areas Meetings with ex-students for a chat about the future (Uni, employment, apprenticeships) Team building events Leadership Training in Somerset
Support with writing UCAS applications, personal statements, CVs and letters of application whilst researching courses Support for applying to competitive courses Support for apprenticeships
Sports Day Soccer-baseball, soft ball, then track and field events – eventually won in a close-run race by…..
12/13 JCN! DBC – Football Winners
(winning the state cup)
JCN – Soccer Baseball and Field Events Winners
Sixth Form Challenge Cup 2015-16 Winners After 6 rounds blood, sweat, tears and tantrums (!) t his years winners were:
12/13 NLN! You made Miss Long very, very happy!Â
Term 1 2016-17 Year 12 Icebreaker Events A great 1st day event to kick off the term and help everyone get to know each other!
Biology/Geography Field Trip July saw the annual Biology/Geography field trip, with record numbers crammed onto a 50-seater coach! The weather was superb as we studied the fore dunes at Berrow local nature reserve, covered in stabilising marram grass, competing with the invasive sea buckthorn. A short walk took us to the rabbit-grazed dune pasture, with a much higher diversity of lime-loving plants, including bird's foot trefoil, eyebright, restharrow, lady's bedstraw and pyramidal orchids. After lunch in the beachside cafĂŠ, we tackled the rocky shore in Weston-Super-Mare, near the old Birnbeck pier. Here, we studied zonation and students were able to measure and record the changes from lichens to channelled wrack, to spiral, bladder, egg & serrated wrack, as we moved from upper to lower shore. We found a number of animals, including periwinkles, barnacles, limpets, and a pair of shore crabs locked in a love embrace (a first for Mr Sage!). After a well-earned coffee / cake / ice cream in the local cafĂŠ, it was back on the coach; another highly successful trip safely completed!
Music
Fundraising for our show, We Will Rock You, continues to take place thanks in part to sixth formers who helped bag pack in M&S at Cribbs Causeway in September. We’re delighted to have so many sixth formers in the cast, band, and also helping on the marketing team.
Composition workshop We’re delighted that our A2 Music students have been offered the opportunity to take part in a composition workshop, organised by New Music in the South West, with musicians playing their composition, followed by feedback from composition. It will be exciting to hear compositions played on real instruments! Singing for all… It’s fantastic to have two choirs run by sixth formers. Alice Godwin and Georgina Jenkins have set up a highly popular Year 7 Girls Choir whilst Rob Collard has set up a Year 7 Boys Choir. There are also plans for sixth formers to organise a Brass Ensemble and String Ensemble. Fantastic for UCAS applications! No ticket? No entry! Serious business at Wellsway’s Got Talent!
l o o h c S y l a a w u s s l i l V e d W n a g n i m r o f r t e n P e m t r a p e D s t r A . . . … s t n e s e r p This year’s school production
Rehearsals are well under way for this year’ School Production of ‘We Will Rock You’. Over 100 students in cast and band, led by our gifted Year 12 and 13 students are rehearsing hard to create this amazing spectacle. After a short break we want to come back with a bang and have great plans for an incredible show- the quality and commitment of this year’s cast promises much. Performances run on 1st - 4th February where you will witness Mendip Hall transformed into two contrasting worlds.
Keep an eye out through the website for ticket
PE Term 6 event in PE – Mixed Sixth Form Rounders' Tournament The mixed rounders' tournament was a lovely way for the sixth form to enjoy a competitive but friendly sporting event at the end of the year. For the Y13’s about to leave it is the last possible chance to represent the school in sport and this wonderful group of students enjoyed it wholeheartedly. There was a lovely spirit, games were indeed played competitively but there was also a lot of laughter and fun to be had. It was a pleasure to accompany the group and although we lost a game to the eventual winners Chew, Wellsway finished in second place with their heads held high and smiles on their faces.
Well done and thank you to Emily, Kelsey, Elise , Callum, Oakley, Fin, Sami, George, Abi D, Abi H, Beth, Leah, and Ciaran.
Wellsway's 1st XI cricket Wellsway's 1st XI cricket team played several games last summer. The highlights included a tour to West Sussex including games against Christ's Hospital School near Horsham and Worth School. In July we played games against the Forty Club (whose President is HRH Prince Philip) and the MCC, the most prestigious and oldest cricket club in the world. Both the Forty Club and the MCC play matches against all the best schools in the country and Wellsway is one of the very few state schools that plays them. As such, Wellsway was particularly honoured to have been named as the West of England Forty Club Trophy winners for the best performance in the west against their club during 2016.
Where do our sixth form go? This summer…………… 32% went on to Russell Group including Oxford Uni
80% went on to University
Business, Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Law, Theatre, Acting, English, Media, Creative Writing, Education, Nursing, Vet Science, Medicine, Youth Studies, Paramedic, Geography, History, Geology, Psychology, Sociology, IT, Computing, Networking, STEM, Human Biology, Criminology, Accounting, Astronomy, Journalism, Civil Engineering, Occupational Therapy….and much more!
20% went on to Higher Apprenticeships / employment
Higher Apprenticeships
For a full list, see our website!
MoD Lloyds Babcock Atkins Nursing… and more!
Wellsway Sixth Form Open Evening Wednesday 12 th October 2016 6 - 8pm Speech by Mr Bray, the Director of Sixth Form, at 7.30pm If you have any questions please contact us through the website!
Wellsway Sixth Applications for 2017-18 Apply to our Sixth Form Online through the sixth form section of our website after our Open Evening
Please apply by 14th November 2016 so we can take into account your subject choices when creating our Options grids
Upcoming Sixth Form Events October Challenge Cup Rd 1– Mega Quiz Sixth Form Icebreaker party
November 6th form Children in Need concert Year 12 Parents Evening
December Challenge Cup Rd 2 – Pantomimes Year 13 leavers Awards & Reunion Evening Celebration Assembly
Find us at www.wellswayschool.com or @wellswaysixth