Keeping you up to date with events in the Sixth Form in Term 2 – it doesn’t cover everything but it gives you a flavour of what has been going on!
Introducing The Wellsway Multi Academy Trust Mr Bray Director of Sixth Form
Over ÂŁ400 raised! Thank you!
The Community Action Team (our esteemed organisers!) Thank you!
Cancer Research TREE OF HOPE RAISED £108! RAISED £95!
Leo, Elliot and Seb (Arkwright scholarship) Representing Great Britain at international conference in Mexico (looked like, errm, hard work?)
Nick Earned Arkwright Scholarship this year
Sam
Beth
12th in World Air Games - Ballooning - in Dubai
13th in Elite National Cycling Championships Trains with professional Pearl Izumi Sports cycling team
Harry British Rowing Trials
Congratulations! Ellie, Cory, Adele, Ellie, Georgina, Layla, Lucy, Megan Organised a charity football match 3 cake sales School mufti-day Sponsored abseil (Avon Gorge) Raised £1400 for Jessie May Trust – amazing!
Congratulations to the Events Team for organising the 6th Form Icebreaker Party at Second Bridge over the October half term break! Thanks to Adam and Ryan for DJing!
Year 12 and 13 compete in inter-year tutor teams for this prestigious competition, in events throughout the year.
Panto Challenge Round 2 - Results
Challenge Cup Positions after 2 rounds
Position
Tutor Team
Points
Position
Tutor Team
Points
1st
WSW
14
1st
GHT
26
2nd
GHT
12
2nd
WSW
22
3rd
JCL
10
3rd
NLN
20
4th
NLN
8
4th
JTN
16
5th
JTN
6
5th
JCL
12
6th
DBC
4
6th
JCN
8
7th
JCN
2
7th
DBC
8
Round 3 in Term 3 Fancy dress netball & basketball
(in support of anti-bullying week) The task – competing against the school houses, we had to keep one exercise bike going all day. Each volunteer cycled for 15 minutes, adding up all the km’s cycled to see who could go furthest! Thank you to all who took part both on the bike or in the crowd cheering!
Name
Tutor
Km cycled
TOM CIARAN LEO JAMES JONTY LEWIS SAM Miss Dyer FIN GEORGE Mr Bray LEWIS OAKLEY CIARAN JESS CALLUM TOM BETH Miss Beceriga ABBY HOLLY ELLIE AZARIA RIANA BECKY ABI
WSW DBC JTN GHT JTN JTN DBC
8.2 8.2 7.9 7.4 7.4 7.4 7.3 7.3 7.2 7.2 7.11 7.1 7.1 7.1 7.0 6.8 6.8 6.6 6.5 6.4 6.1 5.9 5.4 5.2 5.0 4.6
JCN NLN JTN JTN DBC JCL NLN GHT JCL DBC WSW NLN WSW WSW DBC DBC
National Schools Championship Placed 4th – top state school in the county
Congratulations to Emily, Jade, Leah, Abi, Abby, Sophie, Jazz, and Ella
First Aid Accreditation Students from year 12 and year 13 took part in a full day basic first aid course, by St John's Ambulance. Their certificates will last for 3 years and will help them get employment in the care industry, give them confidence to help people in need in any situation, such as on a night out or when with family and is also very useful for those looking to train as a nurse, doctor, occupational therapist, etc. It also looks good on a CV!
Theatre trip - 1984
30th September 2015
Coming Up… Wordsworth Workshop run by a representative of the Wordsworth Trust Students will study a range of Wordsworth’s poems as well as being given an insight into Romanticism Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum is the only place in the world where his personal belongings and handwritten documents can be seen in the place that inspired his greatest work.
‘it becomes astoundingly clear that this production owes as much to the creative team behind the scenes as it does to the stellar performances from every single member of the cast: complex, ingenious and super-stylish, almost cinematic in its elegance, but skilfully remaining faithful to the core foundations of the incomparable power of contemporary theatre at its stunning best.’ (Bath Life Magazine)
AS Literature students will visit the Birmingham Carrslane Centre on Monday 7th March For an all day30th September 2015 workshop on Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
A Level Literature Theatre trip to watch Jane Eyre at the Bristol Old Vic Wednesday 27th January
Year 13 English Language students visit Chandag Primary School to observe Literacy lessons and read with the children st 1 February 2016
First staged at Bristol Old Vic in 2014, Sally Cookson's acclaimed re-imagining of BrontĂŤ's masterpiece comes back to us in a single exhilarating performance following its transfer to the National Theatre's stage.
All our Year 13 students are looking forward to a day’s visit to the high-tech labs of @ Bristol, to carry out a workshop called “A question of taste”. This involves fully hands-on gene technology, using state of the art techniques (electrophoresis & PCR to name just 2!) to isolate, amplify and identify one of their own tasting genes. The day ends with a stimulating discussion the ethics of gene manipulation. A great day – and superb preparation for these topics on the summer exam – what more could you want?
On November 4th Y12 and 13 students from Design and Technology took a trip to London and visited the Design museum and the Science Museum. The aim of the trip was to gather inspiration for coursework and an awareness and appreciation of the wider world of design and engineering. The Design Museum was showing it’s annual ‘Designs of the Year’ exhibition highlighting the years’ most important new designs which was particularly good for students to see as it features many new designers straight out of university – something to aspire to! We then moved on to the Science Museum where students explored exhibitions about materials, careers in engineering and the Russian space programme before returning to school.
Berlin Trip
GERMAN PUPIL COURSES Two-week language and culture courses for Alevel students. Our students are applying now for the German Pupil Courses to spend two weeks in Germany this summer! Talented and enthusiastic learners of German will experience two fun weeks of language lessons, thematic workshops, excursions and much more. The courses are part-funded by the German government which covers all course-related costs in Germany.
The Berlin Trip will be taking place on the 4th-6th March and will include a trip to the Reichstag, a tour of the beautiful city and of course lots of opportunities to taste the famous Currywurst! Berlin – wir kommen!!! The trip was so much fun and a really good opportunity to see the German culture and practice the language – Louise Screen Year 13 student.
The course really helped me gain confidence when speaking the language and after 2 weeks I was able to hold a fluent conversation in German - Tom Jenkins Year 13 student.
Germany is a great diverse country for A- level students to do work experience. On a work experience trip you will be able to explore and discover a vibrant and cultural city where you can meet other young people whilst practising your language skills and gain in confidence and independence.
Book your trip today and join the experience.
We have had a really good consistent turn out of Sixth Form students to our Monday nights new Bristol Flyers Basketball session. This runs from 6 - 7pm here at Wellsway with two players coaching from the Bristol Flyers – one being Daniel Edozie (an American signing).
We are now a hub for the basketball so this session is open to students from outside of Wellsway from 14-25 years of age; and from the five hub sites ours has been the most successful!
Community Spirit Awards (awarded by the Officer and Ambassador Team)
The Community Spirit Award is given by the Head Boy and Head Girl on behalf of the team. It is to recognise and say “thank you” to those in the Sixth Form who give up their time to help others, are someone to lean on in times of trouble, who have shown a generosity of spirit and prove themselves to be open, fairminded and generous of spirit to the Sixth Form as a whole.
This year the award winners were……. Beth Nick Adam Hayden Tiegan Alex J Ellie
Alex K Abi Poppy Alex C James Azaria Ben
Christmas Department Awards Most Improved Student
Most Hard Working Student
English Language
Ellie, Rosie
Roseanna, Ellie
English Literature
Beth, Beth
Chloe, Ellie
Media Studies
Megan, Georgia
Georgina, Harriet
French
Alastair
Holly, Eva
German
Abi, Jacques
James, Tom
Health & Social Care
Tiegan, Ellie
Tara, Hannah
Engineering
Tom, Elliot
Alex, Alex
Product Design
Ben, Hayden
Abi, Seb
Sports Leadership Award
MGeorgia
Ben
Level 2 Fitness
Harry
Tom
Most Improved Student
Most Hard Working Student
Maths
Abi, Leo, Elliot, Jack
Aleena, Megan, Aneirin, Anna
Core Maths
Alex
Olivia
Further Maths
Charlie
James, Jack, Jai
Music
Emily
Carrie
Theatre Studies
Georgia, Lucy
Izzy, Becky
Art
Chloe, Chloe
Emma
Geography
Harriet, Chloe
Laura, Jacques
History
Michael, Alex
Jess, Ellie
Philosophy & Belief
Georgia
Ellie
Psychology
Tiegan, Fin, Azaria
Roseanna, Sofia, Sam
Sociology
Lauren, Charlotte
Katie, Laura
Most Improved Student
Most Hard Working Student
Business
Callum, Abbie
Katie, Lucy-Mae
Economics
Robert, Priya
Megan, Hayden
Applied Business
Harry, Amelia
Camilla, Aneirin
ICT
Dan, Ellie
Abi, Maddie
Computer Science
Chloe
James
Chemistry
Tom, Max
Holly, Alex
Biology
Anastasia, Emily
Camilla, Laura
Physics
Olivia, Jack
James, Aneirin
PE
Kyle, Abbie
Callum, Sam
BTEC Sport
Imah, Harry
Ellie, Abi
18th - 20th Jan – Open mornings 26th and 27th Jan – Sixth Form student interviews 10th Feb – Year 13 Parents Finance evening (for Uni) 11th Feb – Challenge Cup Round 3 – Fancy dress netball Half Term 15th March – Student Officer Election and hustings 12th April – HE fair for Year 12
19th – 21st April – Challenge Cup Round 4 – the Enterprise Challenge
Term 3 Sixth Form Development and Seminar focus - Mindfulness
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The Officer/Ambassador Team 2015