Summer News 2016

Champions BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, Edition MAKE A DIFFERENCE! COLLEGE ACHIEVEMENT

Welcome Welcome to the Summer 2016 Newsletter. Firstly, I would like to say thank you to Nailah Abdul Gaffar for designing our fabulous front cover. You can see some of the other design possibilities from the Y9 Media Studies group on the opposite page. It has been a term, and a year, of great achievements as you can see from the contents of this newsletter. We wish our Y13 students all the very best of luck as they continue their learning at University, or in the world of work. We will be welcoming the majority of our Y11 students into our Sixth Form in September, but to those who are leaving us we also wish them much luck and happiness in their studies. We also have some staff leaving us either through retirement or promotion and would like to say a sincere thank you to them all for their hard work and dedication: Mr Kelly, Mr Slater, Ms Bolivar-Medina, Mr Thompson, Ms Bearne, Ms Mcgeown, Ms Chudasama, Ms Iliffe. On behalf of all of our staff I would like to thank all parents and carers for your support this year and all our students for all your enthusiasm and hard work. Have a lovely summer! Ms Gregory

Y10 Prefects The Mix - Counselling for Young People Congratulations to our Y10 prefects who were appointed this term. Their job As well as being able to access is to take on a leadership responsibility to help ensure the smooth running of counselling via Karena, you can the college, to model good behaviour and attitudes to learning, to support now access support from The Mix vulnerable students and to act as ambassadors of the college at all times. (formerly Get Connected). Young Their contribution to the life of the college is an important one and already, people can self-refer by calling/ Prefects are beginning to have impact in terms of bringing a range of student- emailing for counselling and they will related ‘issues’ to the attention of staff and using their initiative to intervene be able to access 6 sessions of free during minor disputes between students. Induction training is underway phone counselling. culminating in a team-building day at the www.themix.org.uk Outdoor The Mix offers confidential, non- Pursuits Centre. judgmental support and information on any issue. They have a section on Letters of application mental health, offer counselling and can give free connections to local or for the next cohort of national services. They are open every day: 11am-11pm prefects from the new Call: 0808 808 4994 (freephone) Year 10 students will be invited during the first Webchat: visit the website www.themix.org.uk half of the Autumn term. Live group chats: visit the website www.themix.org.uk

2 BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Big Stop Day 2016

On the 9th of April as a part of the #BIGchange We have Campaign, students from our college attended now begun to build the fourth Big Stop Day event, held at Athena, our own campaign to MAKE A Leicester. Many schools from across Leicester DIFFERENCE on a subject we came together to contribute towards creating a believe has a high importance. positive social change. Big Stop Day is a whole Nia Nisbett and day dedicated to having a good impact. Enrique Baptiste Students sung, danced offstage and onstage (Kaden, Daisy and Tamika), and Anti-knife Crime listened to various other young people telling their stories of inspiration and Campaign motivation. Some of the speeches were very inspiring and heart touching. Our Big Stop Campaign is going to focus on Hearing about what people had been through and how they are still standing educating young people about the dangers of knife crime where they are today, proud, is a huge accomplishment. I personally was and changing the law on carrying knives. We are working amazed at how much of a change some people my age had been making to with Bizzi Dixon, Amy Morgan (Tyler Thompson’s mum) and matters they were passionate about. the Leicester Anti Knife Crime Project to develop a music There were outstanding performances during the afternoon. Big Stop Day is a video and drama production to highlight the dangers of knife huge platform for rising talent to be noticed, we had performances from Boyz crime and to petition to change the law on the sanction for Klub, Trin-DS2 as well as acts that have been on shows such as the Voice and possession of knives. Britain’s Got Talent. Each performer spoke about their drive to achieve goals We started our campaign with a series of assemblies for all people told them would not happen. year groups, presented by Y12 students, with support from Alan Knowing that the founder of the Big Stop was only around sixteen was mind Thompson (Tyler’s dad). We will be continuing our campaign next term. Please blowing. The trip was a thrilling experience and had an effect on all who went. join our facebook page: The Leicester Anti Knife Crime Project.

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In this issue you will BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! see all of the wonderful things 3 the children of our school have done. COLLEGE ACHIEVEMENT

Pay it Forward And last, but not least, 7DJT organised a 100 mile walk to raise money for a local charity and One Nepal. All students took part and seemed to really Year 7 students have all been involved in projects this year to ‘pay it enjoy it. Nassor Abdallah 7RDP managed 10 laps of the field and Eryk Dec forward’. The aim is to work together to make a difference to our local and 7SC completed 9! global community. This is what they’ve been doing: All were brilliant and really pushed themselves to achieve an accumulative 7JV - Collected tins of food to be delivered to the food bank. 100 miles and not 1 student moaned whilst taking part although 1 did crawl 7SC - Purchased new toys for the L.R.I children’s ward. half a lap! We even manged to litter pick on route! 7KH - Litter picking on school field The students have raised over £500 so far, and there is more to come. 7LRP - Performing a fairy-tale inspired play to year 6 (New Year 7 students) A massive well done and thankyou to all the students, tutors and Ms in June. Frederick for your outstanding efforts and commitment to making this 7SES - Producing their own Pay it forward video to pass on to the New Year happen, and making a difference whilst generating a lot of happiness. 7 students. FANTASTIC! 7RDP - Purchasing new toys to donate to the Red cross 7CEH - Litter picking in the community with the ‘Friends and neighbours of Downing Drive’

4 BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! World Book Day This year’s World Book Day was held on Thursday 3rd March and a wide range of activities were available for our students to get involved in; Year 7 and 8 dressed up as characters from their favourite book, design a book mark, book sharing talks in the library at lunchtime, a World Book Day inter-form quiz and write your own 6 word story as well as launching the Reading Rampage challenge for 2016. Congratulations go to the winner of the 6 word story, Bilal Bux ‘Went to war. Never came back’. Staff also took part in the fancy dress competition with the Science department winning the overall team prize for their Charlie and the Chocolate Factory costumes. Ms Penny-Larter winning the individual prize for her complete characterisation of Miss Trunchball. The English team also thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to become characters from Roald Dahl books for the day! Karen Penfold Reading Development Coordinator/HLTA

Reading Rampage Challenge 2016 Back in March our librarians launched this year’s Reading Rampage Challenge which is organised by the Leicester Libraries, Library Services for and Whatever it Takes. Each year, all secondary schools are given a selection of 20 of the latest fiction and non-fiction titles to read and vote for between March and end of May culminating in an awards ceremony in June. During two busy weeks in March, Year 7 and 8 students attended a launch lesson in the library where they were introduced to the titles and their English teacher and librarian each gave a book talk on one of the titles that they had read. For the next 3 months the students were encouraged to read and review as many of the titles as possible before voting for their favourite one overall. 9 students, who showed the most effort and commitment to the challenge, attended an awards ceremony at Leicester University on Friday 17th June where they had the opportunity to meet several of the authors, ask them questions and take part in a quiz to win books for our college library. The overall winning book was also announced during the event and that was awarded to PIG and the Big Quiz by Barbara Catchpole. One of our students, Khushi Odedra 7SES, won a £20.00 Waterstones book token and a framed certificate for her thoughtful and detailed reviews written during this challenge. Thanks must go to our librarians, Mr Bordoli and Ms Beach, for organising this challenge within college as well as a huge well done to all the students who took part in the challenge, making it such a success this year. We will look forward to the new one in 2017! Karen Penfold Reading Development BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Coordinator/HLTA 5 COLLEGE ACHIEVEMENT

Support Summer Read event at Leicester Racecourse Carnegie Medal Shadowing On Friday 10th June 18 year 9 volunteers headed off to Leicester Racecourse to take Reading Group part in the annual event, Support Summer Read, run by Whatever it Takes(WIT). This year’s theme was Roald Dahl to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of his birth. Our fabulous Carnegie Shadowing Reading Group has been meeting regularly in the library on Wednesdays after school this term. Each student was part of a team led by an author and each team was named after a This is a gifted and talented extra-curricular activity for students who Roald Dahl character such as Fantastic Foxes, Giant Peaches and Enormous Crocodiles. love reading and talking about books. We have been reading and During the first session our Year 9s met up with their Year 6 pupil who will be joining discussing the 8 books that have been shortlisted for the Carnegie TCOLC in September. Throughout the day the Reading Buddies take part in reading- Medal this year- the Carnegie Medal is the most prestigious award based sessions as well as adventurous and team-building for Young Adult Fiction. activities. The Year 6 pupils also select 6 books that they Our group consists of students from years 7 to 12 and we discuss the then receive over the summer break to maintain good books whilst enjoying a different sweet treat every week – sometimes reading habits. In September our Year 9s will link up with chocolate cake, sometimes cupcakes or iced buns or even exotic and their partnered pupils to begin a programme of Reading unusual fruits! Students have been fantastic in reviewing the books Buddies which will make sure that the early stages of their and in contributing some very interesting ideas about them and we time at new secondary schools is positive. have enjoyed some fascinating discussions! Other activities in the day included team building exercises Madeleine Beach, Librarian such as completing a huge jigsaw puzzle that showed an extract from a Roald Dahl story, climbing Spider Author Week - trip to Mountain where pieces of Roald Dahl themed ingredients see Pete Johnson had to be retrieved and returned to base, wall climbing As part of the annually run Leicester Author to collect pieces of a large jigsaw puzzle that eventually Week, 50 year 7 students headed off on made a large Roahl Dahl picture and finally, a creative Monday 7th March to Leicester Tigers task to make special Charlie and the Chocolate Factory conference centre to see Pete Johnson, sweets using items such as cardboard sticks, shiny paper, author of My Parents are Out of coloured ribbons and buttons! Control and The Vampire Bewitched. Overall, it was a great day with lots of friendships made, Throughout the morning, he lots of climbing fears overcome and plenty of laughter entertained us all with extracts from along the way! his books, anecdotal stories from his Karen Penfold life as an author and competitions Reading Development Coordinator/HLTA where several of our students won The City of Leicester College prizes. Later in the session, the students all had to write the introduction to a story which Pete guided them through and they were encouraged to complete once they returned to college with their form tutors. At the end of the session, each student came away with a signed copy of his book, Traitor, to read and keep as a momento of this fun morning. Karen Penfold Reading Development Coordinator/HLTA

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Trip to Foxton Locks for new Here’s what the (and not so new) arrivals to Leicester students said: “The countryside 20 students who are learning English, some of whom have only been in the was very green” UK for a few months, went on a trip to Foxton Locks. Foxton Locks is a great “The May blossom was a bit smelly” place to visit. It’s near Leicester but in beautiful countryside and you can “Our guides, Maureen and Mike, were learn about history, science, mechanics, art and geography – and have fun really good and nice, kind and helpful.” at the same time. “I liked the locks – we got to open the lock gates” We learned about the locks system and helped some boats through the “My favourite bit was going in the boat”. locks. We learned how whole families lived squashed into small spaces on “There was a deep canal and if you fell in, you narrow boats whilst having a very hard life making a living along the canals. wouldn’t get out”.

Year 10 Work Experience On the 23rd of May I had a chance to do my Work Week – May 23rd-27th Experience at the in the department of Neuroscience & Biology for one week. At first I couldn’t believe The week before May Half Term saw over 200 the opportunity I had been given and I was eager to learn as much as I could Year 10 students trade the classroom for the during that week. It was made evident when I turned up 1 hour earlier than workplace, heading out for our annual Year 10 expected! Work Experience week. For most students involved this was their first experience of a workplace During the week I was given access all areas to countless laboratories and given environment, and the Year 10’s were scattered far the opportunity to see the different species of animals that the scientists were and wide throughout the City and County, within working with. My main focus was on the Desert Locust (an insect found in North a wide variety of job roles. A wealth of professions Africa). I also got the chance to see some of the researchers working in the field were represented during the week, with students of genetics with Zebra Fish. These scientists were experimenting with a particular sampling everything from Administration to Zoology. gene in the fish called NOS1 which controls their level of aggression so that in the future they could help humans with things like ADHD. Work Experience allows students to build on vital skills such communication, time-management and problem-solving. TCOLC students have a habit of During the week, I had to use a range of different skills such as communication, impressing their employers during Work Experience Week, and this year was no problem solving, teamwork and many more. I believe the skill that I developed exception. The employers involved were thoroughly impressed with the Year 10s’ most was teamwork as I was able to perform experiments with the researchers commitment and conduct. As the week drew to a close, many students found and make sure everything went smoothly. that they were offered weekend or summer work, or invitations to come back in I would definitely recommend doing Work Experience because not only do you the future to discuss apprenticeships or full-time jobs. get to miss a week of school, but also you get the chance to see how the world “I thoroughly enjoyed my placement at a local leisure centre. The week helped works, how different jobs are linked, and possibly discover an interest that you me to strengthen my communication skills, as well as my ability to build new never thought you had. For me personally, it has set me up for the future, as the relationships” Nia Nisbett, 10AEF scientists have asked me to do an additional one-month placement during the summer. This is helpful to me because not only does it look good on my C.V. but There are too many success stories from Work Experience week to mention also I get to have more of an understanding of the job that I want to do in the in full, however one shining example was Morad Ouhani’s placement at The future. So I would definitely recommend Work Experience! University of Leicester’s Department of Neuroscience. Morad impressed his academic colleagues so much that he has been invited back for a 5-week Morad Ouhani 10PJW summer placement in the Department’s laboratories, to help with their As Year 10’s reflect back on a successful week, Year 9’s can start to consider pioneering scientific research. their own Work Experience plans for this time next year! Mr McLintock, Careers Adviser BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! 7 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Barcelona Trip – April also really nice and there was a 2016 huge variety of different food to choose from” Meera – Y8 We took a group of 40 students from “On our second day in Spain, years 7-10 and 4 staff to Barcelona in we had spent the whole day in April and what a fabulous time we all Barcelona and had gone to many places had! there. One of the places we went to was We stayed in a coastal village just north Camp Nou (FC Barcelona museum and of Barcelona and spent 5 days/4 football stadium). Inside there were all nights exploring the local area; their trophies and pictures of when they’d we spent 2 full days in Barcelona, won them. The highlight of the whole visiting Nou camp stadium, las camp was the actual stadium. It was ramblas, La boqueria market, la really fun and an amazing opportunity” Sagrada familia, Park Guell, the Shivani Godhaniya Y8 Aquarium, Port Vell and hardrock “After visiting the amazing Camp Nou, café. We spent a day in Port Aventura we took a quick coach trip to las theme park too and some time ramblas and the market. Once we exploring the local village, playing arrived, we walked into the market. on the beach and paddling our feet It was filled with colourful and exotic in the sea before flying home. It was a fruits. The weather was really nice fun filled, busy and fantastic trip – the and sunny in Spain so most of us went students were a pleasure to take! straight to buy an ice-cream; there were Here are some accounts from the so many different flavours. We then students: went shopping. As well as their own “Overall, the journey was really Spanish shops, they also have some comfortable and it was fun on the shops like in like the Nike store, aeroplane as we were all sat next to H&M and many more. We visited the someone we knew. I think the best part of Nike shop and tried on all the shoes and the entire journey was on the aeroplane as talked to the staff in Spanish, we had to ask it was nice to look out of the windows and how much things no one was sick! were, it was really cool. In the middle of las As a whole, staying in the hotel was really ramblas, there were a bunch of stands with nice. Each room has three or four people souvenirs. People were selling merchandise which made it really comfortable. In each – in Spain, selfie sticks are very popular! room, you had people you knew really After looking around for a while, we went well. The food in the hotel was into a cool Barcelona shop and bought key chain, magnets and other souvenirs. We all met up outside the market and walked down towards the Aquarium but along the way we saw some street artists. The first one that we saw was a shiny gold man who did not move an inch, which was really impressive. The second

8 BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! one had a huge attire and was actually quite scary but was cool at the same “At Port Aventura, I had sooo much fun. The rides, the food and drink and the time. The final living statue was full bronze and was an Indiana Jones. He was facilities were amazing! My most favourite ride was the Furious Baco – it went still at first, but when some of the students went to take a picture, he’d move and really fast and had a loop in it. I loved this day so much, I would do anything to make funny sound effects” Rahima Alhadhir– Y8 go back” Heeral Odedra Y8 “During our visit in Barcelona, we had the opportunity to visit the Aquarium. “I think the Hard Rock Café was really goof and a nice place to have food. The highlight for me was to have a one to one experience in feeding these The food was really nice and so was the service. I recommend the Hard Rock beautiful, massive goldfish with a bottle. In the aquarium, I had witnessed the Café” Bilal Patel Y9 most remarkable shark swimming over me in a glass tunnel. Furthermore, I saw “We went to the Sagrada Familia and it was beautiful inside. It was still being these adorable seahorses, gigantic sting rays, not to mention the massive cat built after a hundred years. Inside, the ceiling looked like trees. I have never seen fish! All in all, I had a wonderful time in watching these amazing sea creatures, anything like it” Aman Y9 adventuring inside a papier-mâché whale and observing strange and unusual mammals” Angelina Patel Y8

Engineering Education French Scheme Competition On 28th April two teams of Yr12 students On Wednesday March took part in the Education 16h 19 French gifted and Scheme celebration day in Solihull. talented students from This was their chance to showcase their year 7 to 10 took part in final products and to present their a French competition at ideas to a panel of industry experts. Hamilton College pitting The students have been working with their immense skills against 20 of Hamilton’s Mrs Kroon and representatives from gifted and talented French students. The students completed a variety Rolls-Royce since September. Their hard of tasks as well as a French Disney karaoke competition, their rendition work paid off as they received excellent of ‘I can’t wait to be king’ and “Bare necessities” was magnifique! The feedback on their prototypes and their students had a fantastic time and really enjoyed using their knowledge of presentation skills. the subject in a different context to compete against another school! The day also involved a series of talks from business leaders and engineers. These were well received and certainly inspired the students to consider a career in STEM industries. The students represented themselves and their college with great aplomb and fully deserved the plaudits they received. Well done to all. Mr Dakin BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! 9 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Houses of Parliament Visit On Tuesday 12th April Yr12 Government & Politics students visited the Houses of Parliament for a tour arranged by their local MP Keith Vaz. After seeing the sights of the magnificent building the students were also privileged to witness the opening ceremony for that days sitting of the House of Commons. After the tour the students had an informal chat with Mr Vaz and were able to ask him questions. Some were certainly more difficult to answer than many he would face in parliament! Mr Vaz promised to visit the college soon. The students were then admitted to the public gallery of the House of Commons where they were able to watch a debate on foreign office issues. After hearing MP’s discuss topics including the EU referendum, Israel/Palestine, the continued Syrian Civil War and the threat of IS the students retreated to the sanctuary of several local fast food outlets before boarding the train home. A good day was had by all. Mr Dakin

Year 12 Summer Work Placements. Aatikah Adam 12CEB My Nuffield Research Placement is for four weeks with Congratulations and well done to our Y12 students who have secured PepsiCo-a food company where I will be summer work placements through the Nuffield Research Program. These experimenting with the condition of certain foods in their sixth formers submitted an application along with performing amazingly production in order to monitor and reduce levels of acrylamide - well through various different interview processes. All placements will be a substance proven to increase likelihood of developing cancer. conducted over a 4-week period. Students are volunteering their own time To get through the application process I had to write a personal and these placements are unpaid. statement expressing my skills, achievements and interests Here are the students and a brief description about what their placements and I had to ask a member of staff to write a reference to support my will entail. application. Additionally, I have organised an induction meeting with my project provider to identify the role of my placement and how this excellent opportunity Uwais Mohammad 12LFD will enhance my existing skills portfolio. I will be doing a research placement as a data analyst at the Institute of Hearing which will take place at the University of Haajer Suge 12DV Nottingham. I will be exploring data from a survey that took I will be taking part in a 4-week placement with PepsiCo place online to measure whether hearing thresholds show a and it’s a chemistry based placement about ‘measuring variation with the time of day. This placement will enable me to the degradation of oil quality measurement over time develop my team working skills and decision-making. Working at the University under various conditions’ using NMR and FTIR. Working of Nottingham is really exciting and I hope to network with other students on the in the major food manufacturing company, the project placement to further develop myself. will involve changing the storage conditions of oil and measuring any changes. I will be receiving training to use specific scientific Abdur-Rehman Patel 12 NLP software along with learning to present findings to leaders in the project. My placement consists of a research study to improve I am really looking forward to this placement as I have a passion for science cancer treatment of tumours lying close to the bladder using and maths and this placement will allow me to develop new skills and ideas radiotherapy. I will create a laboratory experiment mimicking for the future. the bladder and compare ultrasound measurements of bladder Wishing them the best of luck during the summer break. volume between different observers, thus enabling the use of an ultrasound scanner, which could help radiotherapy treatment of tumours Mr Bhatt (Yr12 Achievement Co-ordinator) be more accurate. I will be working at the University of Leicester and the Royal #SummerWorkPlacements #InvestingInYourFuture #HardWorkPaysOff Infirmary Hospital alongside a variety of doctors. 10 BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Trips On Friday 6th of May all of the year 9 students who study GCSE Physical Education along with Mr Sharpe, Ms Myk and Ms Chapman had the opportunity to visit Loughborough University which is one of the country’s premier Universities for sport. Athletes such as Paula Radcliffe the Olympic marathon runner and Sebastian Coe attended the University. ambassadors and answer the question: Our students were given a tour of the University by Loughborough students and What makes a typical university student? After this, were able to see for themselves the extensive and extremely impressive facilities there was a fun lunch break. and opportunities available for all who study there. Our students were able to Soon, we had to go on an amazing, fun campus trail chat with and ask questions to an elite athlete who is currently preparing for the with our own student ambassador which was the best Olympics; participate and receive coaching for Handball and were tested to bit of the trip from my perspective. We had a few see how quickly they could sprint using state of the art digital . pictures to find and a few questions to answer It was a worthwhile and really useful day for many of our students and some and whoever got the most correct won a prize. were keen to know how they could get to study there. Maybe some of our During this trail, my group managed to touch current year 9s will be showing City of Leicester College school students around and look at a RAF aircraft which was an amazing the University themselves in the near future! experience especially because I am a trainee student pilot doing my BPL at Leicester Airport. Year 9 Gifted and Talented Loughborough University Trip Also I managed to sit in a formula 1 car which On Tuesday 22nd March a few Year 9 students went on a trip to Loughborough was FANTASTIC! Eventually the trail came to an University to understand what campus life was like at university and to see how end and a group from our college won! many courses there were to do at Loughborough. The experience was amazing Finally, we took the minibus to college! The and the students learnt a lot throughout the day. experience was absolutely phenomenal and At first, we went to a lecture hall to hear a brief timetable of how the day would educational – I found out so much about go. Next, we went to another lecture room to understand what HE is and to university and it was extremely helpful as I see how many courses you can do at university. I learnt a lot and there was am planning to study Aviation at university! a resource pack full of interesting papers relating to the rest of the day. In the By Captain Shalin Bhamrah, 9PES lecture room, we were put into groups and we did many activities including a true or false emoji game about facts of the university and a bingo game during break which helped us meet new friends from other schools since we had to RS find people who knew the answers to any questions on the bingo sheet which were in regards to what they liked or interesting things about them e.t.c. This The RS Department has set up an Instagram page and twitter feed was so we could get a feel of what it would be like when we go university when to support students’ learning. The Instagram page has KS3 students’ we will see new people! Lujain Dassu 9 ZE won the bingo game and won work on with brief descriptions and the twitter feed is mainly for the a prize. KS4/ GCSE students but will interest some KS3 students as it has links to issues, organisations and stories that the students examine in After the short break, we were finding out what student life was like at the classroom. university and we spoke to our student ambassadors (which were students from Loughborough University studying a course) and we learnt a lot about different Follow us on Twitter @TCoLCrsdept students and we did an activity which was to draw over our own student Instagram tcolcrsdept BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! 11 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Literacy and Numeracy Maths on Tour Success We have had many exciting extra circular opportunities in maths This year has been a busy this term, including master classes at the National Space Centre, year for the interventions top revision tips at and code breaking at that are run by Ms Tailby Bletchley Park. Students have been a credit to the school at these and Mrs Thompson. Ms events and been instilled with a greater passion for mathematics Tailby is responsible for as they see it working in real life. literacy and Mrs Thompson Bletchley Park the numeracy. Groups are In May students from years 7 and 8 visited the home of MI5 during made up of about 4-8 WW2, Bletchley Park. They explored the interactive museum, students and last for at took part in a code breaking workshop and enjoyed a guided least one term. Some run tour of the beautiful grounds in the sunshine. Here they learned for longer if we feel the how mathematicians succeeded in decoding messages from the student might benefit from it. infamous enigma machine used by German allies and played a A student may be recommended through a teacher, vital role in winning the war. a parent or the student themselves. The literacy Maths Master Classes interventions for years 7, 8 and 9 include reading Harry Khangura-Singh and Inderveer Narang have spent the last + spelling, inference and strategies to help students six Saturdays attending problem solving workshops at Leicester cope with Dyslexia. Year 10 students are helped University and The National Space Centre. The boys represented with their coursework and revision. The numeracy the school brilliantly and returned with some puzzles that got the interventions include basic numeracy concepts and Maths Teachers thinking! confidence with applying numbers. Junior Maths Challenge The students are then able to transfer the skills they Year 7 and 8 students took part in the Junior Maths Challenge this learn in the interventions into all their subject lessons. term. They worked hard and prepared themselves well using the The groups have been really successful with some maths challenge app on their ipads and many received awards students increasing their reading and numeracy ages for their performance in this nation-wide problem solving event. from between 6 to 12 months within a six month Congratulations to Kadar Aidarus for the Best in School award, period. We are looking forward to continuing these and Mohaeda Mohamedhaseem for the Best in Year (7) award. interventions next year, and working with the new The following students received silver awards: Karan Chauhan, year 7s. Hamzah Bukrrih, Karanvir Singh and Muhammad Amjad and 24 other received the bronze award. Mrs Thompson & Ms Tailby “I can, I will!” conference A group of year 11 students attended a C grade exam preparation conference at De Montfort University on Saturday May 21st, they were enthusiastic and enjoyed the day immensely. The conference involved schools from across the City, and included some excellent motivational activities alongside 4 workshops which focused on specific maths exam topics and techniques. The students involved all highly rated the day, Bilal Delair stated, “this is why I am definitely going to get a C!’ 12 BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Year 9 BBC News School Report Check out all the incredible things the Year 9 BBC News School Report team got up to during the project and the work they produced. ‘Seeing what makes Leicester City tick’ The Year 9 girls’ football team and selected students from Media Studies had the rare opportunity to visit Leicester City’s training complex alongside editors and reporters from the BBC. Students were taken on a guided a tour of the training ground where they got to see all the unique facilities LCFC has to offer for their players. They even got a glimpse of all of the first team’s boots, lockers and even managed to see Andy King in the gym. The girls’ football team also participated in a training session from one of the trainee coaches, whilst Media students used state of the art cameras to capture images for a 360 video of the training complex. Piya Bhansali presented the 360 video which was shared on Match of the Day’s Facebook page, receiving a whopping 40,000 views in a matter of days. Vivek Wandhwana produced the final article: ‘Seeing what make Leicester City tick’ which was shared on the BBC Website. A fantastic achievement and thoroughly enjoyable trip. You can check out the video and article here at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB-noa80XiA http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport/35821558

Y10 Geography Field Trip On Wednesday 20th April, Y10 Geography students participated in a one day field trip to Burbage Brook in Derbyshire, as part of their GCSE course. Luckily, the weather was fantastic and this allowed all students to accurately record their measurements and work together in teams. All students took various measurements of the river, with a focus on meanders, rapids and a V-shaped valley. The Y10 students were able to apply what they had learnt in class to an outdoors context. Now back in college, it is clear that the trip had a positive impact on the students as they can use their knowledge of Burbage Brook and their measurements to write-up their controlled assessment. Thank you to all staff that assisted on the trip. The Geography Department

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Music News Concerts in the hub. This term we are continuing with our regular lunchtime concerts in the Blue Hub on Thursdays. We have a great range of performers at these concerts from bands to solo acts in all year groups – you may even see the odd teacher performing! Graded Exam success At the end of the summer term some of our students are being entered for Rockschool Guitar and Drum exams and ABRSM piano exams. We wish them luck with their examinations! Well done to all those students who have taken music exams recently, and offer a wide range of experiences for many thanks to our team of peripatetic music teachers for their hard work in students to develop their musical interests preparing the students for the exams. and abilities. See the poster for a full list of the clubs we offer, and speak to your music teacher for Concert more information – we’d love for you to get involved! Congratulations to the students who performed at our recent evening concert. The concert was a culmination of the Year 10 Controlled Conditions work, Listen In! and Year 12s core unit work for their Access to Music qualification. The Our students consistently impress us with their musical ability, and so we have standard of performance was excellent! set up a Soundcloud account to share some of their great work with you! You A special thanks goes to Jenna Trivedi, Kaden Frank-Herbert and can find the page here https://soundcloud.com/tcolc_music Martina Masango for stepping in to the Year 10 bands that needed extra Updates instrumentalists. For regular updates of events and opportunities in the Music Department, Extra Curricular follow us on Twitter @TCOLC_Music We are now well underway with our Extra Curricular programme, where we

RSC / LPN A The City of Leicester College – Hub Midsummer Night’s School Dream • Sir Jonathan North Community College Throughout March 2016, 900 children • Judgemeadow community College and young people from 42 schools • Whitehall Primary School in 6 areas of the country (Leicester, • Linden Primary School Blackpool, Bingley, Staffordshire, • Humberstone Junior School Uxbridge and Canterbury) performed the • Captains Close Primary School nation’s favourite Shakespeare play; A • Robin Hood Primary School Midsummer Night’s Dream in a national festival called It was fantastic to see so many students, some as them ‘The Dream’. as young as Year 4, performing the text in its original Our College, as the Hub School for the LPN, organised, language on a professional stage. designed and directed our cluster’s performance and Our College was responsible for 3 sections of the piece we had privilege of opening the festival with our show and was performed by a talented and committed ensemble at Curve Theatre on 4th March. made up of Y8 students. The group was a credit to us

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all, taking responsibility for making their own costumes, supporting each other and younger students through the process and performing brilliantly. They even brought a tear to Ms Gregory’s eye! Throughout the process we were supported by our RSC Ambassadors, Piya Bhansali, Lujain Dassu, Vivek Wadhwana and Dylan Rana who were responsible for costumes, publicity and marketing. During the dress rehearsal Lujain and Dylan supported and worked alongside Curve Theatre backstage team and then during the evening performance they took responsibility for the whole show. Congratulations to all of you involved; this is an incredible achievement and we are all so proud of you. The Cast Rahima Al Hadir, Simran Barha, Ravinder Boora, Breanna Chishiri, Aimee Coe, Bradley Coleman, Kaden Frank-Herbert, Morgan Garcha, Shivani Godhaniya, Sakib Jaman, Aaisha Kadir, Sharaya McIntosh, Lia Mistry, Anmol Odedra, Dhruv Patel, Mya Patel, Pragnesh Patel, Corey Regisford, Israa Sajawal, Rahma Shakuwe, Savanah Stafford-Williams, Mohamed Suge, Jenna Trivedi, Mohammad Isa Yousuf. What a show to kick off all the other national festivals! Thanks so much for yesterday! I was so thrilled to work with you all! Your creativity and dedication has been fantastic! Wonderful directing throughout the process it’s been great seeing you all develop your directing voices and I was very happy to be a part of that!! You should all be very proud what a show - very professional throughout and very funny, touching and indeed magical! Aileen Gonsalves, RSC Director Mentor From all at Linden thank you so much for all the work you have done for the LPN over the past 3 years. It has been an unforgettable experience for us. Ingrid Spencer and Manpreet Sohal, Linden Primary School Just wanted to say what a fantastic experience Friday was and thank you and all your team for their dedication and hard work. It was great to see the children giving their all. Kerry Whiting, Robin Hood Primary School

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LPN/RSC LATEST NEWS As the year draws to a close our students, along with students from 5 primary schools, The fortunate students who were are preparing to perform Shakespeare’s A selected: Midsummer Night’s Dream on stage at The • Rahima Al Hadir Swan Theatre in Stratford upon Avon on • Breanna Chishiri Tuesday 5th July. • Aimee Coe This Regional Schools Celebration will see six • Kaden Frank-Herbert groups performing from schools in Bingley, Kent, • Morgan Garcha Staffordshire, Blackpool, Leicester and Uxbridge. • Mya Patel Each group will be made up of young people The students are taking full advantage of this incredible opportunity from every school in each cluster meaning that 42 to work alongside and support younger students and develop their schools (including primary, secondary and special own performance skills. The ensemble are rehearsing after school schools) will be represented meaning a total of 84 and at weekends with RSC young people will be performing. Directors Aileen Gonsalves and Robin Belfield in preparation for The schools in our cluster group their residential trip and perfroamnce on July 4th and 5th. Watch this performing are: space for reviews of t The City of Leicester College – Hub School he show. Whitehall Primary School - Leicester LPN Symposium Linden Primary School – Leicester In 2016 the Learning and Performance Network will be ten years old. Humberstone Junior School – Leicester This significant anniversary will be celebrated in Stratford-upon-Avon on Captains Close Primary School – Melton Tuesday 5th July at a symposium called Whose Culture? shared with Mowbray theatre partners, teachers and students who have been a part of the Robin Hood Primary School – programme over the past decade. Nottingham Our College will be represented at the programme by our RSC It was an incredibly difficult task to Ambassadors Lujain Dassu and Dylan Rana who will be delivering a select just a few students from our presentation celebrating the work we have done as part of the LPN and unbelievably talented Y8 cast that Amnesty International the impact that the project has had on our College, other schools and the performed at Curve Theatre to go on Ms Bradshaw is starting a TCOLC Amnesty International Group. If you are community. interested in finding out how you can support the fight for human rights, please see and be part of the regional festival. Ms Bradshaw about how to get involved.

Amnesty International Amnesty International Ms Bradshaw is starting a TCOLC Amnesty International Ms Bradshaw is starting a TCOLC Amnesty International Group. If you are Group. If you are interested in finding out how you interested in finding out how you can support the fight for human rights, please see can support the fight for human rights, please see Ms Ms Bradshaw about how to get involved. Bradshaw about how to get involved.

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Child Smile becomes One Nepal. Sadly the Child Smile fund raising programme which we know and love has been unable to secure its status as a recognised charity, because the annual turnover does not exceed £5000. However, TCOLC wishes to continue with our work and further develop our links with the orphanage and local projects. We will now being doing so under the project name One Nepal - we are able to raise money as a school to support an international project without this being a charity in itself. For further information on how to get involved please speak to Ms Khan. The Moonwalk Our latest fundraising activity for One Nepal involved 48 enthusiastic, determined, crazy, students and staff who took part in a 5 mile moon walk, across fields, in the rain and in the dark. Against all the odds, and with one group getting a little lost (Ms Bolivar!) they all heroically completed the walk and raised a massive £730! This has enables us to pay the next two instalments of Plus 2 education fees for our five of our Blessed Home orphans in Nepal: Rohit, Kabbu, Sangmoo, Sarsang and Jyoti. Without this money they would not be able to continue their studies at college. Massive thanks to Teej, Ms Khan, Ms Bolivar and the One Nepal team for organising such an amazing event. Here are some ‘before and after’ pictures which really do embody our motto: be happy, be ambitious, make a difference!

Primary Gifted and Talented Days In June we held our annual Gifted and Talented Days for Y4 and Y5 children from our local primary schools. Over 150 children came in over two Saturdays and enjoyed taking part in workshops to develop their skills in: English, French, Drama, Geography, RS, Art, Product Design, Textiles, Science and PE.

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Arts News at TCOLC Gold Over the past academic year ‘By the pricking of my thumb, something creative this way comes!’ Moving Together have been Double, Double, hard work, no trouble, these students are in an Arts Award working with 8 students in year bubble, Bronze, Silver and even Gold, hear about their amazing talents as their 12 and 13 to achieve their Gold news unfolds! Arts Award qualification. The Arts Award takes a lot of hard work and Bronze and Silver gives UCAS points for University Bronze and Silver Arts Award in dance! This is a chance for young people to applications - the group have been extend their practical and theoretical skills in the art form. Participants take part in engaging in a variety of activities a variety of dance styles, learn about artists and organisations, attend and throughout the year, some of the review arts events, and develop their leadership skills by running their very own highlights are below: mini projects! • Legally Blonde performance trip at Curve Theatre The following students have been involved in a variety of events since starting the • Tour around Curve Theatre and question and answer session with a staff award such as Performing for DMU Open days, watching professional shows at member the Curve: Into the Hoods by Zoo Nation, Sleeping Beauty by Matthew Bourne • Beatboxing workshop with Akshay Sharma and guest performers at the Jump2it Dance Festival at the Peepul Centre. • Drama workshop with Adrian Sanderson to develop a modernised Romeo and Speak, Demand, We’ll answer! Juliet Script This is what some of them had to say about it. • Workshops to write an arts issue debate A way to express yourself without any rules – Krishna • Leadership dance and drama projects with year 7s and 8s at TCOLC and at I liked all the dances we did as we got to learn new moves and got to express Little Poppets nursery with 3 and 4 year olds! ourselves through the movement of dance – Olivia Brining the year to an end is their re- imagined version of Romeo and Juliet, this Dance really boosted my confidence. Made great new friends that will stay with was performed at De Montfort University on Friday 24th June at 7.30pm. We me forever. Great experience! – Sam saw this popular story updated through movement, sound, music, images and a You are able to be yourself and portray yourself creatively – Riya selection of social media #my bae romeo. They completed their Arts Award with a special performance at the Curve Theatre The successful students to gain their Gold are Rhianna Boon, on the 29th June showcasing all their work and the dances they’ve learnt. Yasine Patel, Aneeza Ahmad, Imaan Abdul-Karim, Ekta Khunti, Well done! Tamika Gore, Shiv Navekar and Zubeda Shakuwe The students involved are Krishna, All hail the talent at TCOLC, All hail, for you shall go on to greater Olivia, Samantha, Riya, things! Eesha and Anya. Getting involved in Theatre! Knock, knock! Who’s there? In the name of theatre? Over the last year Adam Mohammad Yousaf in year 10 has been involved in a variety of workshops and performances at the Curve and Little Theatre. These have included Treasure Island, Richard III and The Curve Young People’s performances. For his work experience Adam managed to gain a coveted place for a week and was able to learn, more about working at at producing and receiving theatre and getting to see what life was like for staff behind the scenes. Adam said: The two things I enjoyed the most while working at the Curve was ushering, 18 BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! which was when I helped people into shows and sat on the side and monitored whether they were taking pictures as that was not allowed. It was also good because I got to watch most of the shows and it taught me how in theatre, the littlest things matter. I also had to monitor whether would think the same if working there part- time or full it was too hot in the auditorium as the play was performed. The second best (my time and making money, in my opinion, would come favourite) I got to help with the lighting for the biggest show, which was currently as a bonus. It has opened my eyes and shown me how on, `Of Mice and Men. I met many of the cast members, was given a tour of much more than just acting happens in a theatre. A truly backstage and the main stage, and different departments, It blew me away. unforgettable experience. Working in a place like the Curve for free, as work experience was amazing and I Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the importance of the arts!

PE girls continued to improve and their ability to adapt their play to JSLA- Junior Sports Leader Award the rules was impressive. Simran Congratulations to Kara Walker who was selected to attend the JSLA award Heran pulled off the most amazing during the half term break, in order to gain a recognised coaching qualification. backhand shot to earn her and the This was run by LCFC for the day at St Margaret’s pastures, in which girls from team a rounder. The girls claimed the city came together to further their leadership skills, and in Kara’s case, work an emphatic win over New College towards her leadership practical score for her PE GCSE! Well done Kara! to seal the evening off on a high! Year 10 football team - The Here’s to the next one! year 10 girls’ football team were Year 8/9 rounders - As chosen out of all of the schools part of the Leicester City in the Leicester City area to Schools tournament, the year 8/9 girls’ represent LCFC at a PL Kicks rounders team played in a tournament at tournament in Derby during half Hamilton CC against 7 other schools. Their term. Captained by Anisa Nuur, first games were by far the toughest against the team played local teams strong Crown Hills and English Martyrs including rivals Derby County. B squads which resulted in losses. As the They finished in 4th position and did team grew in confidence and experience, themselves and the college really their impeccable fielding and clever, proud! Anisa was nominated player of tactical batting ensured wins for the the tournament- congratulations! rest of the evening, beating Samworth The players were: Anisa Nuur, Kara Academy and English Martyrs B. The Walker, Naomi Ettrick, Nasra Fahie, team secured 4th position based on Nia Nisbett and Aditi Rajesh. rounders scored, without even playing all of Year 7 rounders - Our year 7 rounders team had their first taste of competitive their games. rounders action away at New College in June. The tournament consisted of Saffron Lane Athletics - The annual East TCOLC, New College and Samworth Academy on a gorgeous summer’s Area Athletics competition was held at Saffron evening with over 45 girls competing! Despite losing their first game, the TCOLC Lane Athletics stadium in May, where City

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took a representative team of 40+ students. #MADting Prize collection - Our Events range from the long and enduring newest initiative at TCOLC aims to reward 3000m, to the fast paced events such as students for “making a difference” and the long jump, the throws and of course, the attending extra-curricular clubs or initiatives pinnacle of the evening- the relays! City students in a bid to encourage our students to do more in were outstanding in their representation of the order to “be happy” and “be ambitions”. In planners, school, with many students achieving personal students’ have green pages in which they are expected bests, final places and 6 students making it to record additional learning hours. We currently have through to the County stages! 2 initiatives running side by side, and students are Congratulations to: Naomi Ettrick (200m), entitled to be in both. Kiera Canpolat (shot putt), Amirah Manjra #MADting (Make A Difference: Time (1500m), Hamze Farah (100m), Rahul is Now Golden) is a prize driven Chudasama (discus) and Breanna Chishiri initiative, with the idea that the more (long jump). hours you put in to your learning and County Athletics - From those above, we development, the better the prize. The are pleased to confirm that Breanna is the prizes range from ukuleles to footballs, 6th best long jumper in and shin pads to art sets, lunch passes to Rutland, despite competing against year 9’s football boots and many, many more. We with a PB or 3.99m! are hoping that the external reward will impact the internal desire to do more in Kiera, the reigning champion at County school, as a way to assist with the health, level in the shot putt, held her title again for well-being and future of our students. another year! She will now represent The City of Leicester College AND Leicestershire and We held our first prize collection session Rutland at the English School competition in in June, with many students securing July! All the ‘bronze, silver and gold’ prizes, but more best Kiera spectacularly, Simran Heron in year 7 had and here’s to already collected 40+! She chose to take away with her a very popular and well Tokyo 2020 stocked Art set to set her creative juices flowing! Well done to those who have and wearing attended clubs, collected prizes and are aspiring to the next. that Great The second initiative is the top 30 students with the most additional extra- Britain vest….. curricular hours across college, earn their place on trip to Planet Bounce, Nottingham. The desired indoor trampoline park has caused quite a stir in college, with lots of students expressing their interest to go and many other trips following suit! The second time this trip is bigger and better…… Planet Bounce is our morning activity, with ice skating in the afternoon topping the trip off in real style! Rahima Al-Hadhir in year 8 is our most dedicated student towards extra- curricular activities, with a massive 155 hours from January to June- well done Rahima! Instagram page - for information on the GCSE PE courses, PE department information and pictures from school fixtures, follow @TCOLC_GCSE_PE

20 BE HAPPY, BE AMBITIOUS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Nia’s Basketball Success TCOLC students on BGT! Congratulations to Nia Nisbett for being selected for the initial U15s Congratulations to Girls Basketball Team. The selection took place at the ex-students Kieron Wildcats Arena and featured players and teams from Leicestershire, Simms and Ryan Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire with North from Total over 100 ballers taking part. Over 25 players were selected in each TXS who nailed group which will be cut down to a final 12 in the coming weeks. an awesome performance in Nia represented Leicester County Britain’s Got Talent in the East Midlands semi-final last tournament in Nottingham in night! June and will be travelling to Spain in the summer with the Warrior girls to participate in a tournament there. TCOLC Robot Wars

International Sports Success Every Wednesday after school in the purple hub Friends Chelsea McKay and Anya Dupre, 9CLB, are both representing England in sporting events over the summer. Chelsea is one of only 8 swimmers from Leicester to be selected to represent the City at the International Children’s Games in New Taipei City, Taiwan in July. Anya has been selected as part of the dance team to represent England in the Dance World Cup in Jersey. We wish them both the best of luck. Speak to Mr. Williams for more information

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Halal Food Update New Safeguarding website for parents We are pleased to be able to offer a range of HMC certified meats. As parents, it is crucial that you understand the risks your children face when We have sourced a reputable and certified company for all our butchery needs, using the internet so that you can be active in keeping them safe. Spicetime, based in Birmingham - www.halalhmc.org The government has recently launched a brand new website to support parents. The website has being developed with ParentZone and CEOP, the As ever we strive to meet every ones needs/choices and will still be offering non police command responsible for child exploitation and online protection. halal options, in main meals, snacks and cold options. Halal food is clearly labelled Parent Info is a collection of articles, tips, expert advice and resources and is served in yellow dishes or yellow papers. designed to help parents keep up with what their children are doing on-line. If your child or you have any queries on any of these issues or anything else that is of For example, the site currently includes information about staying safe on concern please do not hesitate to contact Keeley Monk, Catering Manager. minecraft, mental health, and building online resilience. You can find further information here: http://parentinfo.org/

Important Information for Parents and Carers significant disruption to their own, and others’, learning. The bell goes at 8.25am – if students are late to college, or to a lesson, they will be required to do Uniform and equipment a 30 minute detention after school that same day. Please ensure your child comes to college in full uniform every day and with all their equipment, including their organiser. Students who are not in uniform will be Absence required to go home and change or work in the Behaviour Support Unit for the If your child is absent from college you must phone the office to inform us. When day. your child returns to college please write a note to explain the reason for absence – this needs to be handed in to Ms Withers on Student Reception. Hair, make-up and jewellery should be appropriate for college. If students are wearing anything deemed inappropriate e.g. large hoops, dangling earrings, Holidays prominent piercings, large belts etc. they will be asked to remove it. Students are Holidays must not be taken during term time. Any planned absence from college NOT allowed to wear hooded tops to school. If they do, these will be confiscated. will only be considered in exceptional circumstances, at the Headteacher’s discretion. Uniform Direct Please note you can purchase uniform for students at The City of Leicester As required by the Local Authority, if your child has unauthorised leave of College from Uniform Direct’s shop in the centre of Leicester, on Humberstone absence you will either be issued with a Penalty Notice of £120 per parent Gate next to Sainsbury’s. The shop offers good access for parents as it is on a bus per child (discounted to £60 if paid within 21 days), or your case will be route from Evington and is also very close to the Clock Tower and other shops in referred by the Local Authority directly to the Magistrates’ Court. the centre of Leicester. Contact information Uniform can also be purchased on line at www.uniform-direct.com or by Please ensure that the contact information we hold for you is up to date. We telephoning Uniform Direct on 01522 510016. increasingly contact parents/carers through phone, text and email, so please make sure that if you change mobile numbers or email addresses that you let the Mobile Phones office know. Please note, if students need, or choose, to bring a phone into college they do so at their own risk. Phones should be switched off whilst in college. Counselling Service in College Student Planners If you are not yet aware, we do have a counselling service available for Please check and sign your child’s planner regularly. The planner is full of useful students in college. Karena Anderson is an accredited BACP registered information and is where you can monitor your child’s homework. Our policy on counsellor. If you think your child would benefit from receiving counselling, mobile phones will be changing from September 2016 and students will please contact Karena on: [email protected]. no longer be allowed to bring phones to college. Please see our website: www.cityleicester.leicester.sch.uk or our Punctuality Twitter page: @TCOLC_News for all up to date information. Please support your child’s learning by ensuring they attend college regularly and arrive at college, and into lessons, on time. Students who arrive late cause

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Autumn Term 2016 College opens for students: Tuesday 30th August 2016 Awards Evening: Monday 12th September 2016 Y11 Support Evening: Wednesday 5th October 2016 College closes: Friday 14th October 2016 Autumn half term: Monday 17th – Friday 21st October 2016 INSET day: Monday 24th October 2016 College opens for students: Tuesday 25th October 2016 Y7 Subject Evening: Tuesday 1st November 2016 Anti-bullying Week: Monday 14th – Friday 18th November 2016 College closes: Friday 16th December 2016 Christmas holiday: Monday 19th December – Tuesday 3rd January 2017

Spring Term 2017 College opens for students: Wednesday 4th January 2017 College closes: Friday 10th February 2017 Spring half term holiday: Monday 13th – Friday 17th February 2017 College opens: Monday 20th February 2017 College closes: Friday 7th April 2017 Easter holiday: Monday 10th – Friday 21st April 2017

Summer Term 2017 College opens for students: Monday 24th April 2017 College closes: Friday 26th May 2017 Spring half term holiday: Monday 29th May – Friday 2nd June 2017 College opens: Monday 5th June 2017 College closes: Friday 14th July 2017

Congratulations to our staff quiz team who had a monumental win at the NUT Leicester City annual quiz when they beat 9 other teams to win the coveted trophy!

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