Orleans Park Sixth Form Update 5 February 2016 www.orleanspark.richmond.sch.uk

CALENDAR From the head OF SIXTH FORM Every Thursday lunchtime Thank you to all the Year 12 parents and carers Careers advice drop in session in the LRC who attended the Parent/Carer consultations Every Wednesday lunchtime last night. It was great to see so many of you Open Door, a confidential chat with school talking to your child’s teachers about their nurse in the Zone progress and attainment, and showing your Thursday 11 February 4pm - 7pm support. I am looking forward to welcoming Year 13 Parents Evening the Year 13 parents and carers to next week’s Wednesday 2 March 6pm Year 13 Parent/Carer Consultation Evening on Year 13 Parent talk on University costs in the Thursday11 February. Attenborough Hall There have been three Sixth Form trips this Wednesday 9 March during Enrichment week. Our Media Studies students had a All students attend the Careers Fair at fantastic experience learning about post Harlequins production at Twickenham Film Studios on millionaires in the making Wednesday. You can read all about it on the second page of this Update. For the second year running Molly Cole has The Year 12 Biology students are going to excelled herself in the IFS Student Investor Imperial College today to attend a University Challenge. This year students were given the lecture on medicine. Next week these students opportunity to run two portfolios of stocks and are going on a field trip to Juniper Hall in Box shares each worth £100,000. In the “Strategic Hill for three days to build on their ecological Investor” portfolio, Molly, along with her team and sampling knowledge and understanding. members Mohamed Hadj-Lakehal, Samuel Our Year 12 Geography students are visiting the Gavin-Manuel and Andy Tarshala, came an London Docklands and Olympic Park today to amazing 15th out of over 7000 entrants investigate urban rebranding. nationally. They qualify for the next round and are still in with a chance of winning a trip Two of our Sixth Formers, Billy Brown and to New York. Special mention should also go Abigail Perry flew to Poland on Thursday to to Julius Bax and his team: Luke Airey, Rose visit Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum Lyall and Aarti Gupta who won the school’s as part of the Auschwitz Holocaust Education Combined League, and came 851st overall. Well Trust’s ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ course. They done to Molly and all involved. will write about their experience in next week’s Sixth Form Update. http://www.studentinvestor.org/ Our Summer Term exam timetable is now the cost of university available for Years 12 and 13 to look at in the Parents of Year 13s are invited to attend LRC. I would strongly urge your child to plan a talk on Wednesday 2 March at 6pm in well for revision. These important exams are the Attenborough Hall to unravel all the just a matter of weeks away and a well planned costs related to University, including the revision schedule will help them feel in control administration and means testing of loans. and well prepared. There will be a useful Q&A session at the end.

Learning Resource Centre Sixth Form Absence Line Orleans Park is a Open from 8am - 5pm member of the RFU 07591 662320 Education Partnership every school day Sixth Formers discover the power of post production Calling all rugby players On Tuesday 2 February, 35 A Level Media There is a rugby match against Christ’s on Studies students visited Twickenham Studios to Wednesday 10 February during enrichment. gain an insight into potential career pathways If you are interested in playing please see within the film industry. Mr May. All Year 12 AS PE students being videoed for their assessment MUST play! Students were taken into Post Production Theatre 2, which has hosted the final sound mix for major mainstream movies such as Paramount’s ‘World War Z’ and The Weinstein’s ‘Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom’. Theatre 2 has a AMS Neve DFC Gemini console which is capable of mixing up to 900 sound sources per project. BAFTA award winner Craig Irving, Supervising Re-Recording Mixer, demonstrated the post- production process of mixing foley, dialogue, music and atmos in a scene from a recent project. Craig has collaborated with directors as diverse as Richard Eyre, John Landis and Terry Gilliam, and was extremely patient explaining the possibilities offered by the studio’s Dolby Atmos and 3D sound. This immersive sound system uses over 40 speakers throughout the theatre to create an engrossing audio experience. Students were also given the opportunity to quiz Will Miller, Sound Assistant, on his route to success. Having only completed his studies at Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts 18 months ago he gave valuable advice to Orleans Park students on how to gain work experience and contacts. orleans sixth form vs christ’s The game opened with an intense start with a cracking strike in the first half from Farhad Safdar. We went on to lead the first half and had to defend as a unit as Christ’s were trying with a vengeance to strike back. Five minutes into the second half Christ’s took advantage of our weak defence and levelled. Ten minutes after the equaliser they went into the lead with another goal, which broke the confidence of Orleans Park. However, Harry Pennington curled the ball top left which left the crowd speechless and startled . We felt as if we were in for a chance once again. Despite battling hard, we were defeated with a last minute goal, ending the game with Christ’s victorious. by Farhad Safdar 12R

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