Walthamstow Academy Sixth Form Super-Curricular Booklet 2020

Ambition – Determination - Respect What Are Super-Curricular Activities? “Super-curricular activities are those that take the subjects you study further, beyond that which your teacher has taught you or what you've done for homework” Oxford University

At Walthamstow Academy Sixth Form, we believe that subject knowledge and subject expertise are essential in securing the best possible university places. In addition to grade requirements, the most effective way to support you University application is to show that you have worked consistently and autonomously outside of the classroom and beyond the A level and BTEC curriculum, and that you have genuine interest in your chosen subject

When applying to Universities and for apprenticeships, students who have completed a range of relevant super-curricular activities are more likely to receive multiple offers or asked to attend interviews.

There are many examples of super-curricular activities, including watching and reviewing films, documentaries and TED talks; reading journal articles and books; listening to podcasts; and completing online MOOCS. This link illustrates the vast array of super- curricular activities students could complete to broaden their learning. Walthamstow Academy Summer Super-Curricular Booklet Key

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This activity is a film, documentary or mini-series.

This activity is a TED talk. TED invites expert speakers to discuss their topics of expertise.

This activity is a book or e-book.

This activity is an online resource, such as an academic journal, newspaper article or information website.

This activity is a podcast. 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Wall Street The Big Short Capitalism: A love story Steve Jobs Making your money work for your Future Moneyball The Young Entrepreneurs guide to Starting & Running a Business Top 25 business podcasts BBC Business, Finance and Economics podcasts business business articles – – (1987) (1987) Directedby Stone Oliver Steve Jobs MichaelLewis (2015) (2015) Directedby AdamMcKay – here – here (2009) (2009) Directedby MichaelMoore – - here here - here – and and turn it into a career – Paul Lewis – here – here – - here here – Steve Mariotti Chemistry • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The Infinite The Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian Cox and Robin Ince Oxford University Chemistry Podcasts How big is a mole? How pollution is changing the ocean’s chemistry The incredible chemistry powering your smartphone An introduction to organic chemistry Michio Fantastic Chemistry: A volatile history Batteries Batteries should not burst into flames New scientist chemistry articles Elemental: The Periodic Table at 150 Bad Science The Science of Everyday Life: TeapotsWhy ToastDribble, Burns Light Bulbs Shine Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements Kaku 4 4 (2015) explains explains the “real” science fantastic behind four - BenGoldacre – - Directedby Josh here – here - here Trank – – – – here here here here – - here Hugh – here - Aldersey here - here - Williams. - Marty Computer Science • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • How Photosynth can connect the World’s images Shape shifting technology change will how we work A computer that works like a brain The birth of the computer The Imitation Game The Matrix Hackers B 600 free coding courses Computer science and technology from MIT Getting Getting Started with Unity: A Guide Beginner's to game development Cracking the Coding Interview Code: Language The Hidden of Computer Hardware and Software Oxford University Computer Science podcasts Top 10 podcasts for programmers uild uild your own social media app from scratch (1995) (1995) (1999) (1999) – Iain – Lanaand Wachowski Lily (2014) (2014) Softley - here – – here MortenTyldum - Gayle – – here here Laakmann - here - - here here McDowell – here – here – Charles – Dr Edward Petzold Lavieri Economics • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Capitalism Capitalism eat will democracy, unless we speak up How the blockchain radicallywill transform the economy The paradox of choice What is economic value, and who creates it? The Big Short Capitalism: A love story Margin Call Undergraduate Economics modules The economy Economics online The coronavirus is our chance to completely rethink what the economy is for Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built Doughnut Economics Freakonomics The Big Short BBC BBC Business, Finance and Economics podcasts EconTalk – here (2011) (2011) Directedby J.C. – (2015) Directedby AdamMcKay – – MichaelLewis here StephenJ. Dubner& Steven Levitt – here – – (2009) (2009) Directedby MichaelMoore Kate here Raworth Chandon - – here DuncanClark – here - here – here – here – here English Literature • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Player Player FM English Literature Podcast links Penguin’s guide to the 32 best literary and book podcasts The Building Building a dystopia to make us click on ads How English did evolve? Why people need poetry What does Orwellian actually mean? Margaret Atwood Hypernormalisation Brave New World vs 1984 (intelligence squared discussion) Doing Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students The Art of Fiction How Fiction Works How To English Read Literature Dystopian Dystopian fiction tells a pretty everyday story for many women The Handmaid's Tale: the will relentlessly menacing dystopian fable lose its way? The other side of : literary utopias offer the seeds of better real life Allusionist Podcast Podcast - – David David Lodge - Women in the World Conference James James Wood - Adam Adam Documentary Curtis – – – here here here - Terry Eagleton - here - - here here - Robert Robert - here - here Eaglestone – - here here - here – – here here Geography • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The The Documentary podcast Royal Geographical Society Oxford University Geography Department Podcasts Slumdog Slumdog Millionaire (15) The Impossible (2012) Before the Flood (2016) The Boy who harnessed the wind The online BBC News The Conversation The Power of Place The Happy City Brick Lane Prisoners of Geography Asia’s rise: how and when? Maps that show us who were are Mega Cities Why you should be a climate activist An An Inconvenient Truth and An Inconvenient Sequel (2006, 2016) – - – Monica Ali here here - CharlesMontgomery – - here HarmDe - here – – - J.A. J.A. – Tim Marshall FisherStevens DannyBoyle - - - Bayona here here here Blij - here - here - here – Davis Guggenheim BTEC Health & Social Care • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Nurse Nurse Rio and Kate In sickness and social in care Community Community health heroes The pharmacy of the future. Personalised 3D pills, printed at home. Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about this? How racism makes us sick Born to be different Confessions of a Junior Doctor Elizabeth is missing The Theory of Everything “How working at the Nightingale has changed my student experience” “Cannabis on trial” by National Health Executive cyberbullying meets “When gaming” The importance of the 6 C’s” by Nursing Times When breathe becomes air This is going to hurt The story of Baby P The fault in your stars - here Ferdinad - - - - Ray James BBC Adam Kay 4onDemand - - JohnGreen here - iplayer - - James Marsh - here here Paul Kalanithi - here - 4onDemand – here – – - here here here - here - here History • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Witness Witness Black Rights History: Civil Movement The History Hour Letter from America: Nixon to Carter, 1969 Germany: Memories of a Nation Cecile Cecile Richards: The political progress women have made, and what's next History is a curious thing, and Niall Ferguson Why the whitewashing of black history should be a major concern for us all Celebrating Britain's rich black history: Paul Reid at The Suffragettes: Movie Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain Series Thatcher: A Very British Revolution: Series 1 World World War One: 10 interpretations of who started WW1 Parliamentary Reform Acts by Asa Briggs The “Knockout” Game, Race, and Fears of Urban Crime in American History Why Society Needs Historians: Jonathan Healey (Oxford) Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post White Heat: A History of Britain in the Sixties Swinging Austerity Britain: 1945 "Catastrophe 1914: Europe goes to War“ - here - 51 - here - David - Kynaston here - - here - here 80 - 5 - - - here here - - here here - RobertDouglas here TEDxBrixton - War Britain - Dominic Sandbrook - - here here - - - Fairhurst Clair Wills here - - - here here here Mathematics • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Olico Flying Colours Maths Podomatic Mr Barton Maths The The Mathematics of Love Hidden Figures The Imitation Game A Brilliant Young Mind The Man Who Knew Infinity F Is It True That Some People Just Can't Do Math? How often you should beat your kids at cards? Why Hipsters All Look Alike Things to Make and Do the in Fourth Dimension The Joy of x Proofs from The Book Prelude to Mathematics Hire the Hackers Why you should love statistics unny unny problems Maths Maths - - - here Steven here (2016) (2016) - - - here here here (2014) (2014) Strogatz - - (2015) (2015) here – Aigner andZiegler Theodore - - W.W. Sawyer here – - (2015) (2015) here MortenTyldum – - Morgan Matthews here Melfi – MatthewBrown - - here - here Matt Parker Media Studies • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The The Media Podcast On the Media, Peabody Award winning podcast The Media Show, BBC Radio 4 The The future of story telling How I accidentally changed the way movies get made 3 ways to spot a bad statistic Can you Spot the problem with these headlines? Patriot Act 13th Black Mirror A film from the BFI player (British Film Institute) Sexuality Sexuality and mass media What effect is social media having on society? Mass Media and Its influence on society The media’s influence on society Power Without The PressResponsibility: & broadcasting Britain in All About Love Postcolonial Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Popular Culture Converge (2016) (2016) (2008) (2008) – Melenacolia (2011) (2011) Ava – Bell Hooks Bell - DuVerney HasanMinaj - – here Charlie BrookerCharlie – - - Paul Gilroy here here - - here here - here - here - here – - - here here here - here - Curran& Seaton – Leisbet Van Zoonen Physics • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Twis BBC Science Titanium physicists Giant Giant telescopes and detectors The h T Is there more than one universe The Imitation Game Interstellar Gravity How quantum mechanics lets heat cross a vacuum objects Hiding from heat sensing cameras Black Holes A Short History of Nearly Everything Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character he he “smoking gun” data - istory istory of the universe here (2013) (2013) (2014) (2014) – - here here – Alfonso – – ChristopherNolan (2014) (2014) here - Cauron here – - here MortemTyldum - ? here - - here Marcus - Bill Bryson - here Chown - - AndrewSmith here - RichardFeynman Psychology • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • All All in the Mind Super psychology Psychology and black matter lives Am Am I Not Human What makes people happy and lead a long life This could be why you are depressed or anxious How to Make Stress Your Friend How fear of the coronavirus is changing our psychology Psychological perspectives of the corona virus Cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis Lockdown is the world's biggest psychological experiment Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ The man who mistook his wife for a hat Behind the shock machine Bad Pharma Stacey Dooley On The Psych Ward Three Identical Strangers (Twins/Biological Body Clock: What makes us tick? (Biological Rhythms/Sleep) – Ben Ben Goldacre - here - - here here – GinaPerry – – here - here here – Oliver SacksOliver - 3 twins 3 twins separated) – here - - here here - here - – here DanielGoleman - and we will and we pay will the price – here - here - here Sociology • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • You’re dead to me Outrage and Optimism This American Life Organised Organised crime networks Why are boys failing? We should be all Feminists The Society Freedom Writers The Secret Life of 5 year olds Religious Religious Morality Black Lives Matter Working The Handmaid’s Tale The Establishment and How They Get Away With It 1984 Animal Farm – George Orwell - class children get less of everything education in (Netflix) – George Orwell (Amazon Prime) - - – - (Netflix) here here here here – - here Margaret Atwood (also a series) - here – – here here (Channel4 series) – Owen Owen Jones – here