WHAT IS THE SUPER CURRICULUM?

Super curricular activities are those that take your regular curriculum further. They take the subject you study in the classroom beyond that which your teacher has taught you or what you’ve done for homework. On this app, there are a range of activities, suggested by teachers for you to stretch yourself and explore your subjects.

IMPORTANCE OF SUPER CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• To do well at A Level, it is important to have a) enthusiasm and curiosity for your subject and b) the capacity for independent study. • Super-curricular activities can help you: • Choose a subject to study. • Provide evidence on a personal statement or for an interview. • Develop important skills.

THE SUPER CURRICULAR HOUR

By just adding in an hour a week of super curricular activities, you could be enhancing your grades and opening more opportunities for your future simply by broadening your understanding of a particular subject area. The following gives you an example of how you might wish to break down that hour of Super Curricular.

Mr M Young

Head of Social Sciences ENGAGING, RELFECTING AND SHARING IN THE SUPER CURRICULUM By engaging, reflecting and sharing in the super curriculum, your will gain so much, not just more knowledge, but also a different way of viewing the world and sharing it!

Go ahead and read/watch/listen etc the entire source. But don’t just read for the sake of it. Be intentional about it. Do your best to understand where the author is coming from and what points he/she is trying to get across. There should be at least bit of new information in the content you are going to examine in this app. This might be new research, a fresh perspective, or an original approach. It may be something you don’t fully understand, especially if the topic is foreign to you. To analyse this source properly, you need to dig deeper. Research the authority of the author, the claims they’re making, and any words or content you don’t understand. The idea is to be able to fully comprehend the content contained in the source. If you don’t you won’t be able to analyse it.

After engaging with the source you should be able to summarise the main points of the piece in your own words. If you can’t, go back and re-examine the source. You now need to critically think about what you have just examined, you might ask yourself the following questions; What do you think of the source you just engaged with and summarised? Was it well-written? Was the information presented in a clear and compelling way? More importantly, do you agree with the conclusions the author drew? Why or why not?

After you’ve acquired new information, filtered it through your individual lens–the way you see the world and the people in it–and formed your own opinion on the topic, you can then implement your new knowledge. Write about it, bring it into lessons, essays where appropriate, talk to your mates and teachers about it and find more contrasting and comparable sources to see if your opinions, and critical reflections might change. “The menu of the Rushcliffe School Super Curriculum is excellent. Students should make the most of it. It lists in one place many resources that would prepare a student to any university’s degree”

Gianni De Fraja, Professor of Economics, University of

"I think this is a great development and provides valuable opportunities for students to immerse themselves in the discussion and application of their subjects”.

Dr Michael McCann Nottingham Trent University

WATCH LISTEN • Infinite Monkey Cage Podcast • Wonders of Life with , first episode here • In Defense of Plants Podcast • Horizon documentaries with Michael Mosley • This Week in Microbiology Podcast • Amoeba Sister YouTube channel • This Week in Podcast • Biology Ted Talks • Origin Stories Podcast • Inside Natures Giants • Breaking Bio Podcast • Journey to the Microcosmos – YouTube channel • Big Biology Podcast featuring beautiful microscopy of wacky • Speaking Up for The Blue Ocean Podcast microorganisms • Marine Biologist Live Stream - this marine biologist RESEARCH streams her lab work during the day • Research Epidemiology and how Coronavirus • Our Secret Universe: The hidden life of the cell impacts on different groups in society • Incredible medicine: Dr Weston's Case Book • Research CRISPR, a genetic engineering technique research • Use New Scientist or Biological Science Review READ to research an area of Biology not covered by • The Selfish Gene by the specification. • Biological Science Review Magazine • The Double Helix by James Watson CREATE • A Life Decoded by Craig Venter • Fold it – protein folding game that allows you to • Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre solve protein folding problems • Virolution by Frank Ryan • Genome by Matt Ridley • The Body - A guide for occupants by Bill Bryson COMPETITIONS • The Biologist Magazine- Royal Society of Biology • British Biology Olympiad • Wildlife magazine • Royal Society of Biology Prize • Science and Nature magazine • Peterhouse College “Kelvin” Science Essay – • New Scientist Cambridge University • Royal Scoiety of Biology Blog • Newnham College Essay Prize – Cambridge Uni - • The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Yr 12 Females Only. Skloot. About HeLa cells and the ethics behind it. • 'The Ancestors Tale' by Richard Dawkins. • The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, by Sam Kean WEBSITES • National Library of Medicine • Histology world • Virtual Galapagos Trip

APPS • Anatomy Learning 3D Anatomy Atlas – free app • Practical Biology – Nuffield Foundation and RSB • Protein databank

VISITS • Bird Watching at Attenborough or Skylarks • Visit a Botanical garden • Visit Twycross Zoo • Natural History museum • Visit a sea life centre WATCH READ • Amazon's Empire • Exploring Corporate Strategy, Johnson, Scholes • Bank that almost broke Britain and Whittington • The Bank that Bust The World • Principles and Practices of Marketing, David • The Stock Market Explained Jobber • The Corporation • Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of • How Africa Could One Day Rival China Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy • Topical Short Videos from The Economist Industry Publication • The Business Book (Big Ideas) Edited from • Topical Short Videos from The Financial Times various contributors, 2014 • Warren Buffett Documentary • Like A Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at • How Starbucks Became an $80bn Business Business School Branson, Sir Richard, 2013 • The Rise of Nike • Leading. Ferguson, Alex and Moritz, Michael, • Inside McDonalds 2016 • Business Boomers: Rise of The Coffee Shops • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People • Elon Musk Documentary Paperback Stephen R. Covey, 2004 • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the room (2005) • The Essence of Success: 12 Mini Biographies • What it takes to be a great leader, TED talk Includes Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Nelson • Steve Jobs, Stanford Speech Mandela, Steven Spielberg, , Chris Evans, Frank Sinatra, Tony Blair, Imran LISTEN Khan, Malcolm X, James Dyson, Margaret • (Radio 4) and Global Business (BBC Thatcher, 2014 World Service) • What You See Is What You Get: My • The Bottom Line Podcasts with Evan Davis Autobiography Alan Sugar, 2011 • Business Daily • Strong Woman: The Truth About Getting To The • The Disrupters - Interviews with ground breaking Top Karren Brady, 2013 entrepreneurs • Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography Walter • World Of Business Isaacson, 2015 • Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built. Duncan RESEARCH Clark • If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...: Most • Research how shares, share prices and market Valuable Advice from Remarkable People. capitalization work Richard Reed • Research 11 of the most influential • The Upstarts: How Uber and Airbnb are changing entreprenuers of all time and what made them the world. Brad Stone so successful. • The World's Real Time Billionaires - see daily how much money the worlds biggest billionaires have made or lost ! • Research careers in business, including average salaries! CREATE APPS • Create a profile of one of the 11 of the most • The Economist influential entreprenuers of all time and what • Yahoo Finance made them so successful. • Bank of England • Create a virtual portfolio of shares from the • Bloomberg Trading App Stock Exchnage and trade a fictional • Financial Times £10,000!

VISITS COMPETITIONS • Bank of England, London • Set up a share trading league and compete vs • Museum of the Docklands, London your friends using a fictional £10,000 • Canary Wharf, London • Vodafone's Think Big Competition • Cadbury's World, Birmingham • LSE Essay Competition • Land Rover Manufacturing Tour, West Midlands • RES Essay Competition • Museum of Brands, London • Tour the Audi factory in Germany live - book your slot here WEBSITES • Sloman Economics News • Tutor2U Business • - Business • Financial Times - ask teacher for free subsciption available through FT • BBC Business • Taking The Biz A Level Business Help WATCH LISTEN • Rough Science – The Open University • The Naked Scientist Podcasts • NurdRage - Practical Chemistry • Science in Action BBC Podcasts • The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures • BBC In Our Time Podcasts • The Imitation Game Movie– Alan Turing • A Beautiful Mind Movie– John Nash • Hidden Figures – African American Females vs RESEARCH NASA • Oxford Sparks – Find a topic of interest and do • Hawking – Stephen Hawking further research into it! • Periodic Videos - Nottingham University • Independent Learning Project for Chemistry • American Chemical Society

CREATE READ • Follow “Compound Interest” on . Make • The Science of Everyday Life by Marty Jopson. your own “Infographic” on a compound that • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill interests you. Bryson. • The Poisoners Handbook by Deborah Blum • Bad Science by Ben Goldacre COMPETITIONS • Quantum: A guide for the perplexed by Jim Al- • Peterhouse College “Kelvin” Science Essay – Khalili. Cambridge University • The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean • UK Chemistry Olympiad – Oranised by The Royal • The Billion Dollar Molecule by Barry Werth Society of Chemistry • Moles: A Survival Guide for Science by Keith • Newnham College Essay Prize – Cambridge Uni - Brown Yr 12 Females Only. • Periodic Tales: The curious lives of the elements • Stockholme Water Institute Essay Writing by Hugh Aldersey-Williams. Competition • H2O: A biography of Water by Philip Ball • Uncle by Oliver Sacks • Obsessive Genius: The inner world of Marie Currie by Barbara Goldsmith • Why Chemical reactions happen by Keeler and Wothers WEBSITES APPS • CEN Online – Chemical and Engineering News • iChemistry Pro Channel • App • The Chemical Engineer – News, FAQs and • Learn Organic Chemistry App Features. • Mechanisms: Organic Chemistry App • MachemGuy • Equate Formula Solver App • Allery Chemistry • Chemistry World – by Royal Society of Chemistry • Tyler Dewitt's YouTube Channel VISITS • Snap Revise Chemistry • Museum of Science and Industry – • ChemGuide • The Royal Institution – London • The Science Museum – London • The Old Operating Theatre - London TWITTER • @bengoldacre • @edyong209 • @NatureChemistry • @ChemistryNews • @NottsChemistry WATCH LISTEN • Mysteries of the mind can be solved: A brain in a • Computer Science | University of Oxford supercomputer | Henry Markram Podcasts - Audio and Video Lectures • Big Data: Watch the TedTalk on The year open • Spark is an ongoing conversation about our data went worldwide | Tim BernersLee rapidly changing world. Along with you, host Nora Young explores how technology, innovation and design affects our lives. WATCH • MagPi is the official Raspberry Pi RESEARCH magazine. Written for the community, it is packed • No Touch Interfaces: Forbes ranks no touch with Pi-themed projects, computing and interfaces within the top five trends that will electronics tutorials, how-to guides, and the drive the future of technology. What can you find latest community news and events. out about no touch interfaces? How may they • New Scientist benefit future technological developments? • The Register (nicknamed El Reg) is a British • P versus NP problem: This is a major unsolved technology news and opinion website. Keep up to problem in Computer Science. If the solution to a date by subscribing and reading news articles problem is easy to check for correctness, is the regularly. problem easy to solve? What do you know about • Algorithmic Puzzles by Anany Levitin and Maria P vs NP? Do you think this problem will ever be Levitin. The emphasis lies in training the reader to solved? think algorithmically and develop new puzzle- solving skills. • How Google works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan COMPETITIONS Rosenberg. • National Cipher Challenge: In the lead up to • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of WWII the British intelligence services were Human Decisions A fascinating exploration of how flooded with reports of Nazi spies and computer algorithms can be applied to our sympathisers. With war fast approaching and everyday lives. limited resources the task of vetting all these reports was passed to a fledgling security organisation known as BOSS. As a new recruit CREATE you are given the job of decoding the secret • Quantum Computing: Shor’s Algorithm focusses messages that will expose the enemy agents. It is on quickly factorising numbers into primes. Write a race against time and your country needs you! a short essay summarising how the birth of • Bebras Computational thinking challenge. quantum computing allowed for efficient integer factorisation. WEBSITES APPS • Project Euler - Test your problem solving and • Mimo: Learn to code computational thinking skills through a series of • SoloLearn: Learn to code challenging mathematical/computer programming problems. • Programming Hub: Learn to code • CyberFirst – Get hands on with Cyber Security course run by GCHQ. They offer a variety of residential and non-residential courses. VISITS • Bletchley Park, once the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebreakers is now a vibrant heritage attraction. WATCH LISTEN • Use the ‘Digital Theatre Plus’ website to watch and • Follow a podcast on BBC sounds. Drama on 3 or analyse 2 performances of a different style. For 15 minute here and here. example Frantic Assembly and a Shakespeare. What are the stylistic differences? How could these RESEARCH link to your own work or the set texts? • Use this website to research an accent. Can you • Watch a previous piece of A Level work on master a new accent? Can you think of a YouTube or from school and make notes on the performance that you could incorporate it into. performance. Analyse the strengths and • Go and speak to Mr Pitts at Rushcliffe or another weaknesses and suggest ideas for improvement. actor/acrtress and interview him/them about • Independently watch a production of your choice. their role as an actor. Make notes and be ready Analyse and identify key strengths and weaknesses to present your findings in class. and be ready to explain how these could link to • Carry out online research to further broaden your production concepts for the set texts. your understanding of devised original theatre. • Use YouTube to search for different interpretations • Read ‘The Director’s Craft’ by Katie Mitchell of ‘Machinal’. Watch them and make notes. How • Research theatre companies ‘KneeHigh’ and do they influence your understanding how the ‘Complicite’ and use their ideas to inspire and plays can be brought to life. formulate your own. Can you include or adopt in • Use YouTube to search for different interpretations your own work? of ‘Chimerica’. Watch them and make notes. How • Try and come up with a warm-up based on voice do they influence your understanding how the and body training. Use texts by Clive Barker plays can be brought to life. ‘Theatre Games’, Jaques Lecoq ‘The Moving Body’, or Cicely Berry ‘the Voice and the Actor’. READ These are all plays from your Drama and Theatre • Read a chapter of ‘Stanislavski: An Actor Steps to Success booklet. Prepares’. This explores the fundamentals of • Identify main themes and messages in your set naturalistic acting. Prepare a Stanislavski inspired texts and research how those themes are still rehearsal task to present to your group. The aim relevant today through news reports and current is to develop naturalistic acting skills. affairs. • Choose a play from the set text reading list and • Research a theatrical style and present your analyse character and meaning. What potential findings as an A3 poster. It should have clear does it have for performance? How might it be headings and include relevant pictures, imagery, reinterpreted? Are there effective scenes for text and keywords. your to perform? • Read ‘The Director’s Craft’ by Katie Mitchell CREATE & WRITE WEBSITES • Experiment with different staging. Use a • Sign up to National Theatre and access their performance that you are currently working on archive material, workshop videos , careers and perform it in different lay outs – 1) End on 2) interviews and PDF resource packs from a huge I-The-Round 3) Apron 4)Traverse 5) Promenade. range of plays. Identify and analyse the strengths and weaknesses of each stage space. PERFORM • Choose, rehearse and perform a monologue • Take part in the annual whole school production. from a play. Research the play and the character This could be an acting role or offering technical you are playing and use rehearsal techniques. support or backstage. Attend rehearsals and How can you create impact on an audience. show nights. • Write a monologue based on a character you • Take part in extra-curricular opportunity in have created from your scripted or devised Drama: 1) Get involved in the Subject performance. Be prepared to share the Ambassador programme performance in front of an audience. 2) Get involved in a drama club and run a session. • Use digital theatre plus and watch ‘Love Song’. Review it and draw on it for inspiration for your VISITS own work. • Theatre Royal, Nottingham • Write a biography of the person, company or • Nottingham Playhouse individuals in the company. Examples could be • Visit the home of Lord Byron at Newstead Abbey Brecht, Artaud, Steven Berkoff, Forced • Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London Entertainment. • Visit Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford Upon Avon WATCH READ • The Big Short (2015) • CoreEcon - helping you bridge the gap between A • Inside Job (2010) level and undergraduate Economics • Freakonomics (2010) • Economics is not a dismal science • Inequality for all (2013) • Free Financial Times Subsciption - see your • Masters of Money: Keynes teacher • Masters of Money: Hayek • The Dangerous Economist Blog • Masters of Money: Marx • The Crunch, A.Brummer • Too much maths too little history, LSE Lecture • Marginal Revolution Blog • Bank that almost broke Britain • The Growth Map, J. O’Neil • The Bank that Bust The World • Keynes, Return of the Master, R. Skidelsky • The Stock Market Explained • Greg Mankiw's Economics Blog • Panic: The Untold Story of The Financial Crisis • Fifty things that made the modern economy, T. • 1929 Stock Market Crash and The Great Harford Depression • Tescopoly, A. Simms • The Corporation • Bankrupt Britain, D.Dorling & B.Thomas • How Africa Could One Day Rival China • The Economics of Football, S. Dobson • Topical Short Videos from The Economist • The Great Divide, J. Stiglitz Publication • Economic Growth & Inequality, J. • Topical Short Videos from The Financial Times Stiglitz t.ly/ZSnA • An Economist Walks into a bar • Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern • Help with A level Economics from EconPlusDal Economics, N.Wapshott • Stand Up Economist • Freakonomics Blog • Applications of Maths useful to studying • The Undercover Economist Blog Economics at University • Think like a freak, S. Levvit & Dubner • Sloman Economics News Site LISTEN • Freakonomics Radio RESEARCH • More or Less, T. Harford • Read some of the best economics articles ever • Economics in Ten Podcasts here • IMF Podcasts • Bonds Tutor2u Research Task • Pitchfork Economics Podcasts • Use beautiful data on the Opportunity Atlas • Economics Detective Radio Podcasts CREATE COMPETITIONS • Create a macro profile of 2 DCs, 2 MEDCs and 2 • LSE Essay Competition LEDCs. • RES Essay Competition • Create a map or infographic using the IMF app • Economics Futures Essay Writing Competition showing differing global economic indicators – • IEA Essay Writing Competition e.g. inflation, GDP, BofP, Interest rates.

APPS WEBSITES • The Economist • Sloman Economics News • Oxford Economics Dictionary • Economics Online • International Monetary Fund • Tutor2U Economics • Yahoo Finance • The Economics Observatory • Bank of England • VoxEU Applied Economics

VISITS • Bank of England, London • Museum of the Docklands, London • Canary Wharf, London WATCH READ • Watch a range of plays for free from the Digital • Check out the articles available on E-mag (Ask Theatre. Ask your teacher for login details. your teacher for login details). • Watch these famous speeches and consider how • Read this interesting article about the history of they are using language to persuade. language • How did Dracula become the world's most famous • Poetry Ireland has a wealth of articles on Irish vampire? poetic tradition and an interesting podcast you • Watch these animations on Frankenstein and can subscribe to. Prometheus here and here. • The Heaney Estate’s official webpage has • Boost your knowledge of how Paris was material on a range of his poems and life and has transformed into the city we see today. a monthly article worth reading. • There are numerous recordings of Heaney reading • Visit the British Library resource and read about his own poems available on YouTube – hearing the supernatural in Victorian literature and them in the poet’s voice and accent can give a new society, written by Roger Luckhurst. You can also dimension to our understanding. follow links here to articles on the Gothic • Watch ‘The Life and Times of William tradition too. Shakespeare’ • Shakespeare in Love (1998) RESEARCH • Use the concordance tool to analyse the lexical LISTEN choices, word class and density of language choices • Poetry Ireland has a wealth of articles on Irish in a particular scene from Othello. poetic tradition and an interesting podcast you can subscribe to. CREATE • Listen to this podcast and make notes about • Create a scrapbook of interesting articles and Paris. examples of language use in different contexts. • Listen to the Michael Rosen podcast ‘Word of • Deliver a talk to your peers about an area of Mouth’ and makes notes about linguistics (BBC language/linguistic investigation. Radio 4 iplayer) • Practice thinking about perspective by writing a • Poetry Ireland has a wealth of articles on Irish section of a novel you are reading from a poetic tradition and an interesting podcast you different character’s perspective. Trial changing can subscribe to. idiolect and structural patterns to a different • Listen to this podcast on The Kite Runner with character too. Khaled Hosseini and discuss with your peers. COMPETITIONS WEBSITES • Trinity College, Cambridge University, Gould • Follow a brilliant A Level English Language Blog Prize in English Literature on Twitter – for excellent articles and updates on • The Best In English Competition the course. • Use the concordance tool to analyse the lexical WRITING choices, word class and density of language choices in a particular scene from Othello. • Write an article on either a topic you have • Take a virtual tour of the Globe theatre where studied this year as part of your course or one Shakespeare’s plays were first performed. you are interested in outside of the course. • Start up a ‘Poem of the Week’ and share with your peers (it could be a blog or something via social media) and check out this link. VISITS • Visit the home of Lord Byron at Newstead Abbey • Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London • Visit Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford Upon Avon • The British Library WATCH LISTEN • Watch a () programme/documentary that • Listen to the Margaret Atwood podcasts explores criminal behaviour and psychology • Listen to this podcast on The Kite Runner with • Watch a range of plays for free from the Digital Khaled Hosseini and discuss with your peers (BBC Theatre Radio 4) • Watch ‘The Life and Times of William • Listen and make notes to this podcast on Blake Shakespeare’ • Shakespeare in Love (1998) RESEARCH READ • Attend a subject masterclass on English • Subscribe to The Times Literary supplement Literature from a university of your choice • Expand your understanding of Death of a Salesman by reading some critical articles looking more closely at theory along with some reviews. CREATE • Research dystopian fiction and read a dystopic • Deliver a talk to your peers on your NEA project. novel. • Create a poster on each of your socio-political theories from your Critical Anthology. • Choose a children’s book and apply a socio- COMPETITIONS political theory from your Critical Anthology to it. • Trinity College, Cambridge University, Gould Present to peers. Prize in English Literature • Research a current protest and deliver a speech • The Best In English Competition about it to your peers.

WEBSITES VISITS • Subscribe to The Times Literary supplement • Visit the home of Lord Byron at Newstead Abbey • Explore the Keats-Shelley House online collection • Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London for understanding more about the context • Visit Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford Upon behind Keats’ poetry. Avon WATCH LISTEN • Visit the Tate Britain ‘Walk Through British Art’ to Listen to the Grayson Perry : give you an insight into the history of British art. • Democracy has bad taste • Beating the Bounds READ • Nice rebellion, welcome in! • Read The Illustrated Story Of Art by DK • I found myself in the art world • Simon Schama The Power of Art

CREATE RESEARCH • Make your own sketchbook using lots of • Make a pinterest account and follow different kinds of paper. There are lots of the Rushcliffe Art Department. tutorials online that show different ways of doing • Create your own Pinterest pages relating to your this, but this one works well. projects. • Challenge yourself to draw as much as possible from observation. Buy a small sketchbook and try COMPETITIONS to make a drawing • University for the Creative Arts Competition /sketch/painting/collage every day for two weeks. This could be a quick 5 minute study WEBSITES to one hour. Show your art teacher your art • Student art guide to help you with areas of study work once you have finished! and see examples of work, sketchbooks, written • Join a life drawing class and use the drawings to work. include in your portfolio. APPS VISITS • Pinterest • Visit the Google Cultural Institute Art Project • Adobe Photoshop website. This is an ongoing project where you • Adobe Photoshop Sketch will be able to see every piece of art work in the world. • Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery • Tate modern gallery • National Portrait gallery WATCH READ • Watch some videos on YouTube on ways to • Food52 Blog present dishes professionally. Make a dish of • Deliciously Ella Blog your choice and present it using some of the • Pinch of Yum Blog ideas you have seen. • British Nutrition Foundation have a range of LISTEN webinars looking at functional ingredients • BBC Good Food podcasts and their health benefits, eg, ‘plant based • BBC • Heston’s journey to the centre of food diets, it’s not just fruit and veg.’ • Nutrition Matters podcast • Video explaining the difference between • We do Science podcast macronutrients and micronutrients.

RESEARCH CREATE • Show your knowledge of making and shaping an • Show your knowledge of making and shaping an enriched dough/flaky pastry/gelatine enriched dough/flaky pastry/gelatine dessert,/meringue,/hot water crust dessert,/meringue,/hot water crust pastry/choux/genoise sponge and explain the pastry/choux/genoise sponge and explain the function of ingredients and rules to follow when function of ingredients and rules to follow when producing it. producing it. • Make some spun sugar or some caramel and use • This website offers and explains a range of it to decorate a dessert of your choice. careers opportunities and relevant courses post 18 • Research the role of the Environmental Health Officer and present the information. Visit a fast COMPETITIONS food outlet and write a report. • Create and Cook competition

WEBSITES • This website offers a variety of stand alone VISITS accredited courses for training on line, eg ‘A • Cropwell Bishop to see the cheese making sweet solution’ is free for students and explores • Green's Windmill for Cereal production low calorie sweeteners in our diets. • Hambleton’s bakery • This website offers and explains a range of • Studio Chocolate in Nottingham careers opportunities and relevant courses post • Good Food Show 18 • Cadbury's World • Level 3 Food Science and Nutrition exam questions walk through power point. WATCH READ • Elle s’appelait Sarah • Over 5000 books available to download for free! • Amélie • Articles relating to current affairs and news • Un long dimanche de fiançailles • Go online and read Le Point or Le Monde And • Any Marcel Pagnol film note down 20 new items of vocab every time you • Etre et avoir read an article • Videos relating to current affairs and news • Watch a French TV series or film on Netflix LISTEN • Watch the daily news online • Radio France International • A huge variety of podcasts here for you to RESEARCH listen to! • Plan for a trip to a new area of France. Where • A great resource for new daily content from would you go? What would you visit? How would RFI (Radio France International) for all who you begin to plan your visit? are learning French • Find out about a Francophone country and make a short PP presentation to share with others in • Searchable MP3 clips by topic, and level the class • French music with lyrics here and here. • Research the possibility of working in France here, here and here. COMPETITIONS • University of Oxford French Competition CREATE • University of London Trip to Paris competition • Watch another film by the filmmaker or with the (annual) same actor as the one you study and write a • French Pop Video Competition review. Watch first with English subtitles and • Check regularly for up to date challenges and then with French. competitions • Research a historical figure from the French speaking world (artist, composer, political leader, • WEBSITES or sports person) and create a short text/fact • Languages Online sheet with some questions for a KS3 student to • Franco Phonie complete. • Institut Francais • Cook/Bake/Try a traditional dish from France or • Memrise a French speaking country and bring it in (actual • Quizlet food or photos.) • Babadum APPS VISITS • Memrise • La Page was set up in the heart of South • Duolingo Kensington in 1978, which means it’s the oldest • Radio garden bookshop in London to sell books exclusively in • Lyrics training French. • Free French Forces HQ This is where General De Gaulle set up the headquarters for the Forces Libres Françaises (FFL). From here he co- ordinated the fight to restore the freedom of France. • The statue of Charles De Gaulle Where: Carlton Gardens, London SW7 5PF. This monument to the legendary French statesman and military leader stands near the former headquarters of the Free French Forces. • House of the Institut Français Where: 8 Queen’s Gate Terrace, London, SW7 5P. South Kensington is traditionally the heart of French life in London. It’s where you find cornerstones of life like the Lycée – the historic French school – and the Institut Français (the French Institute). The Institute itself was set up in 1910 to promote French culture, and it proved so successful that they needed extra accommodation. WATCH READ • Unreported World - Hundreds of episodes on lives • Prisoners of Geography (Marshall, T) – a great of people in some of the fastest-changing areas of introduction to geopolitics, helping you the world, e.g. World’s dirtiest air, Hurricane Hell, understand how physical geography impacts on Forests of Fear, China’s Lonely Hearts political reality and the decisions of world • Netflix:Into the Inferno (12): stunning views of leaders. eruptions & lava flows, capturing the raw power of • Factfulness: Ten reasons we’re wrong about the volcanoes.72 Dangerous Places to Live (PG): Up world – and why things are better than you think close and personal with avalanches, fiery volcanoes (Rosling, H 2019). A more realistic view of the & other natural disasters. Learn why people chose world, presenting issues in fact-based context. to live in their destructive paths. • Adventures in the Anthropocene (Vince, G) • Crash Course (endorsed by Downing College, (2016) – the effects humans are having on the University of Cambridge)– 10 min YouTube series surface and structure of the planet with a with introductory level to university style content. balanced view on recognising threats whilst Fun, fast paced, informative way to explore new looking for practical solutions. topics. • Introduction to the Water Cycle. HELPFUL FOR • BBC iPlayer Science & Nature. WATER & CYCLE TOPIC • David Attenborough documentaries, e.g. • Introduction to the Carbon Cycle. HELPFUL FOR ‘Extinction: The Facts’ & ‘Climate Change: The WATER & CARBON CYCLE TOPIC Facts’. • Geol Soc Coasts - Info about different coastlines • Time for Geography. Inspiring, open-access around the UK. HELPFUL FOR COASTS TOPIC geography educational videos. • Holderness Coast ICZM information – you will do • Hans Rosling – The facts about population. a case study on this. HELPFUL FOR COASTS HELPFUL FOR POPULATION TOPIC TOPIC • Population growth • National Geographic – Sundarbans. You will do a • Chris Packham’s 7.7 billion people and case study on this. HELPFUL FOR COASTS TOPIC counting. HELPFUL FOR POPULATION TOPIC • Changing Spaces, Making Places – a good story • Seven Worlds, One Planet (David Attenborough) – map introduction. HELPFUL FOR CHANGING Antarctica – a large case study you will look at. PLACES TOPIC HELPFUL FOR GLOBAL SYSTEMS TOPIC • Our Migration Story – presenting the untold • Why climate change is a threat to Human Rights stories of the generations of migrants who came (TED Talk). HELPFUL FOR GLOBAL SYSTEMS TOPIC to and shaped the British Isles. HELPFUL FOR • World’s worst place to be a woman? (Stacey POPULATION TOPIC Dooley Investigates) HELPFUL FOR GLOBAL SYSTEMS TOPIC • What if a single human right could change the World? (TED Talk) HELPFUL FOR GLOBAL SYSTEMS TOPIC • Power of the Planet – Volcanoes -HELPFUL FOR HAZARDS TOPIC LISTEN RESEARCH • Royal Geography Society podcasts (endorsed by • Univ. of Cambridge Overpopulation – a fantastic Downing College, University of resource delving into overpopulation, theories and Cambridge). Tackles issues in human & physical activities to have a go at. HELPFUL FOR geography, e.g. gentrification, Chinese cities, POPULATION TOPIC urban landscapes, extreme weather. • – great podcasts on a wide COMPETITIONS variety of geographical issues e.g. climate • Peterhouse Essay Prize. University of change, carbon, urban greening, deforestation, Cambridge. Opportunity to write about a subject alternative power, plastics etc. you are interested in and develop independent • Royal Geographical Society – “Ask the research skills, open to year 12. Geographer podcasts”: podcasts to keep A Level • Geographical Association Physical Geography students up-to-date with the latest geographical Photo Competition. Announced in spring, research deadline end of summer. Theme changes each • Over-population or under-population? The year but always focused on physical geog. Guardian. HELPFUL FOR POPULATION TOPIC • National Schools Geology Challenge. Open to any students interested in Geology that are currently VISITS studying geology, geography or science A-Levels. • London Brick Lane or Liverpool as great examples • Financial Times & RGS School Essay of changing places. Competition. This is a yearly competition with a • Holderness Coast for coastal management changing theme, keep an eye out for it opening strategies this year. • Natural History Museum, London • Royal Geographical Society David W. Smith • National Stone Centre, Derbyshire Dales – Memorial Prize. A great opportunity to expand limestone quarries with super fossils preserved! your knowledge related to your Changing Places human geography topic. • Geographical & RGS Young Geographer of the COURSES Year competition. New themes set each year, • MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses) - learn keep an eye out for the launch. about areas of interest and bolster your CV! • Ron Cooke Award for A Level Independent Three main providers, just make sure to find the Investigation. A prize for outstanding NEAs that free ones! show innovation and/or demonstrates your https://www.futurelearn.com/ personal interest in geography. https://www.edx.org/course https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ WEBSITES • Our World in Data: provides research and data to • The Conversation: help understand and make progress against the up-to-date articles from academics and worlds largest problems. E.g. health, poverty, specialists in the field, accessible to all, technology, violence & war, corruption summarising key points in short but insightful • Worldmapper: a collection of world maps called articles cartograms, where territories are resized according • BBC NEWS: to the subject of interest. Explore the world as you excellent source of up to date articles – explore have never seen it! the key headings such as Science, as well as the • Geological Society - Interactive website to refresh UK, World and other stories. your knowledge of plate tectonics. Use the tabs to • Geographical: lots of great online articles on a develop your understanding. For ‘Pioneers of plate range of geographical issues. tectonics’, you particularly need to know about • The Guardian: many useful articles – keep an eye Alfred Wegener. HELPFUL FOR HAZARDS TOPIC on the Environment, Science, Society & Global Development stories in particular! • The RGS 21st Century: Challenges considers the big social, environmental and economic challenges of our time. • New Scientist: Worlds most popular weekly science and technology magazine. International news from a scientific standpoint, asks the biggest-picture questions about life, the universe and human life • National Geographic: Science, geography, history and world culture stories to illuminate & protect the wonder of our world. • The Economist – international weekly newspaper published digitally focusing on current affairs, international business, politics & technology. HELPFUL FOR GLOBAL SYSTEMS TOPIC • Discover Downing: Fantastic range of suggestions from Downing College, Univ. of Cambridge, to enhance your Geog knowledge. Podcasts, MOOCs, comps, science bites, lectures, blogs WATCH LISTEN • The Children Act (2017) • Podcasts on thinking differently about social care • Observe GP is an alternative to work experience • In sickness and in social care podcasts from the for aspiring medics and health care practioners, BBC providing an insight into the role of the GP and the • Open University Podcasts on Social Care wider health care team. RESEARCH READ • Research careers in the NHS here. • The Guardian, Social Care Blog • Research careers in social care. • National Insititute for Health and Care Excellence • Observe GP is an alternative to work experience • Jasper M – Beginning Reflective Practice (Nelson for aspiring medics and health care practioners, Thornes, 2003) providing an insight into the role of the GP and • McGee P – Principles of Caring (Nelson Thornes, the wider health care team. 2005) • Miller J – Care Practice for S/NVQ 3 (Hodder WEBSITES Arnold, 2005) • NHS Website • Spector A – Making a Difference (Hawker, 2006) • Age UK Website • This is going to hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior • National Insititute for Health and Care Excellence Doctor, Adam Kay • Reserach mental health and wellbeing using the Mind website here. VISITS • Department of Health and Social Care • Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood • Florence Nightingale Museum • London Medical Museums • Examine Public Health at the Science Museum WATCH READ • Nicholas and Alexandra • The White Queen by Phillip Gregory • Dr. Zhivago • The Red Queen by Phillip Gregory • Burnt by the Sun • Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah • The Way Back • Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith • The Death of Stalin • Revolutionary Russia by Orlando Figes • Bitter Harvest • The Wars of the Roses and the Yorkist Kings John • Britain's Bloody Crown, The Mad King & The War Warren of The Roses • The History Magazine • Feature History, The War of The Roses • Journal of Contemporary History • The Russian Revolution - Netflix • History Today

LISTEN RESEARCH • Russian History on Audible • Watch this lecture on the fate of the October • Lancaster & York on Audible Revolution under Stalin and take notes on it's • Derek Birks' History Podcasts importance. • BBC Witness History Podcasts • BBC History Podcasts COMPETITIONS • Trinity College Cambridge Robson History Prize WEBSITES • University of Oxford Julia Wood History Prize • Virtually tour around 9 historical monuments • Sheffield University History Essay Competition such as The Great Wall of China and Anne Frank's House APPS VISITS • The History of Everything • Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and Country • Historical Calendar Park • History Timeline • Watch Henry VI or Richard III by the Royal Shakespeare Company • The Tower of London • Ludlow Castle • Visit a gallery showing Russian art and culture WATCH READ • TED: Maths Talks to Blow Your Mind • Humans – Matt Haig • Oxford Mathematical Institute • The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets – • London Mathematics Society Simon Singh Hannah Fry (Associate Professor in the Mathematics • Humble Pi – at UCL): • The Art of Statistics – David Speigelhalter • The Mathematics of Love • How To Make The World Add Up – Tim Harford • Modelling the CoronaVirus • The Tiger That Isn’t – Michael Blastland • How to get Lucky • Fermat’s Last Theorem - Simon Singh • The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry • Factfulness – Hans Rosling • Humble Pi – a comedy of maths errors, - Matt • A Beautiful Mind Parker • Hidden Figures • Hello World, How to be Human in the age of the • Good Will Hunting machine, - Dr Hannah Fry • The Imitation Game • Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of • Stand And Deliver Mathematics - Talithia Williams • The Man Who Knew Infinity • Pi LISTEN • A Brilliant Young Mind • Oxford Podcasts: The Secret of Mathematics • Watch Tom Crawford explain the SIR disease • NCETM Maths Podcast model for COVID19 (Coronavirus) as well as videos • BBC: In Our Time on a wide range of mathematics on his Tom Rocks • The Infinite Monkey Cage Maths website • BBC Magic Numbers Mysterious World of Maths • BBC documentary exploring the world of maths • 60 minute documentary film where nine UK-based RESEARCH mathematicians offer insights into their If you apply for some prestigious Universities you will mathematical thinking have to complete Maths Admission Tests - STEP - MAT - TMUA • Learn how to use Geogebra (a maths piece of software) • You’ve likely seen this equation: eiπ + 1 = 0 in several classrooms.Where does it come from? • Maths Careers (Articles/info) • GapMInder – demonstrating global misconceptions • DollarStreet – comparing wealth across the globe CREATE COMPETITIONS Without using graphing software, try and sketch: • Desmos Art Competition Y = x ln(x) • RiTangle Y = xx • UKMT Challenge Y2 = x sin(x) WEBSITES Try to integrate these challenging functions: • Advanced Maths Support Program f(x) = sin(x)cos(x) • ResourceAHolic f(x) = exsin(x) • Nrich Secondary f(x) = xx • Nrich STEM • Cambridge Elevate STEM related origami and understand the maths • MEI Integral behind it • MrHardyMaths • Numberphile APPS • MindYourDecisions • Sumaze! • BlackPenRedPen • Sumaze! 2 • StandUpMaths • MathsGenie • ExamSolutions VISITS • JethwaMaths • Festival Of The Spoken Nerd • TL Maths • MathsJam Meetings • MyMaths • Bletchley Park, home of the codebreakers • Mechanical Art and Design Museum WATCH READ • Watch this video on the history of MTV- make • Read MediaMag online- look out for your CSPs notes and use for discussions on music videos and key theorists. Ask your teacher for login • Watch this programme about Top of the Pops details 1981 featuring the Specials- Ghost Town • Read Stuart Hall’s Race, Gender, Class • Watch the classic film Citizen Kane to understand • Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic the background and context of newspapers and • David Gauntlett’s Media, Gender and Identity: Hearst Industries An introduction • Watch the TV drama It’s a Sin on 4od to consider • Read Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People gender, sexuality and moral panic About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (free on Audible) • Watch/listen to TED talks on media issues • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for and debates Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown • Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez LISTEN • Listen to The BBC Media Show on the latest RESEARCH issues affecting UK media • Use the Media Insider YouTube channel to • Learn about media literacy in this series of research key media theories and frameworks podcasts • Visit Media MacGuffin’s blog pages for additional • Listen to the “Thinking Outside the Boxset” notes on all CSPs podcasts on the BBC for issues and debates around TV drama CREATE • Media Studies A Level Podcasts • Write an article for the school newspaper- ask your Media Studies teacher for more information COMPETITIONS • Create your own short film for the Nottingham • Get involved with the BBC Young Reporter International Film Festival or go along to a Competition screening • Create your own short film for the Nottingham International Film Festival or go along to a VISITS screening • Visit the BFI in London- either virtually or in • Apply for a place on the BFI Film Academy person. Lots of visiting speakers, special Course at the Broadway. Meet other film makers screenings and archives and learn about film making, attending a • Go to Broadway Cinema Nottingham- lots of premiere and awards ceremony independent and foreign films to enjoy at discounted rates WEBSITES • Visit the National Science & Media Museum • Visit The Guardian’s newspaper education Bradford to find out more about various media resources to research the platform in platforms including animation, TV and gaming more depth. WATCH READ • Watch 3 recordings of one of your performance • Music – A Very Short Introduction, N. Cook pieces. What influences can you take from them? • Film Music – A Very Short Introduction, K. Kalinak • Learn a new area of music theory which could be • Listen to This, A. Ross applied to exams or composition • The Rest is Noise, A. Ross • BBC Howard Goodall’s Story of Music • Music Psychology • Music pages on iPlayer • Learn a new area of music theory which could be • – Various Shows (Netflix) applied to exams or composition • • The Evolution of Music TED Talks LISTEN • Listen to 3 recordings of one of your RESEARCH performance pieces. What influences can you • Research how your instrument works, how it was take from them? created and how it developed. • Listen to other pieces from the same • Pick a piece of music you have heard and study composer/artist that you are currently learning. the score. • Switched on Pop Podcast • Learn how to maintain and do simple repairs on • That Classical Podcast your instrument e.g. set up a guitar properly • BBC Music Podcasts • Music Works Podcast CREATE • BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 6 • Learn a new piece on your instrument for fun. Research a piece you like and learn to play it. COMPETITIONS • Learn the basics on a new instrument. Ask the • British International Youth Music Competition music department to borrow one.

WEBSITES APPS • Classical Music Blog • Bandcamp • NME Blog • Soundcloud • Learn how to Listen - 14 Pieces • Apple Music • Classic FM • Spotify

VISITS • Lakeside Arts • Royal Concert Hall • British Music Experience, Liverpool • Royal Academy Of Music, London WATCH READ • The Good Place – Netflix • Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie • Young, Pretty Religious and Welsh - BBC • The Boy with the Topknot - Sacha Dhawan • Sacred Rivers with Simon Reeve - BBC • The Puzzle of God - Peter Vardy • Civilisations - BBC • The Puzzle of Evil - Peter Vardy • Strictly Soulmates -BBC • Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro • Why Does the Universe Exist? Jim Holt • Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarder • Crash Course Philosophy- YouTube • The Philosophy Files - Stephen Law • Wireless Philosophy Series • Bible Matters - Peter and Charlotte Vardy • Million Dollar Baby (2004)-Euthanasia • The Selfish Game - Richard Dawkins • Dead Man Walking (1995) - Capital Punishment • God Matters - Peter and Charlotte Vardy • My Sister’s Keeper (2009)- Sibling Saviours • Elysium (2013) – Biotechnology LISTEN • Never Let Me Go (2010) – Cloning • Philosophy Podcast • The Island (2005) – Cloning • - Assisted Dying • A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009) –Euthanasia • Radio 4 - Ethical issues • Vera Drake (2004) - Backstreet Abortions • A Romp Through Ethics- Oxford University • Gattaca (1997) - Embryo Technology • Ethics Bites Podcast • Watch consciousness & the brain by John Searle • Listen to the following podcast on morality and at TedXCern science • TV BBC The Big Questions - A series of moral, RESEARCH ethical and religious debates • Research Philosophy online! • BBC In Our Time • Plato: Online research on peped.com WEBSITES • Dignitas (Assisted Suicide) COMPETITIONS • PETA (non-human issues of life and death, animal • Sheffield University Philosophy Essay rights, people’s treatment of animals) Competition • Expertly created curriculum content for • Trinity College, Cambridge University, Essay Philosophy & Ethics topics Writing Competition • Amnesty International (Human Rights- Global • Lloyd Davies Oxford University Philosophy Prize Movement to End Human Rights Abuses) VISITS • Plan a visit to Canterbury Cathedral, Kent • Plan a visit to Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre Acre Edge Rd, Laxton, Newark NG22 0PA WATCH READ • Anatomy of an Olympian • Is money ruining ‘our’ beautiful game? • Icarus Summarise this article and share your thoughts • Supersize me • The Sports Gene by David Epstein 2013 • The Last Dance • Bounce by Matthew Syed 2011 • The High Performance Podcast • The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle 2009 • Sonsational Documentary on Prime • Read the Journal of Applied Physiology, Sport • The Way and Society • Quiet Leadership RESEARCH LISTEN • Research the selection of energy drinks on the • The real science of sport podcast market, comparing ingredients and benefits • Radio 5 Live • Research the Karvonen Theory and calculate • Talk Sport ‘Target Heart Rate Intensity Zone’. Target Heart • BBC Sports Podcasts Rate Intensity Zone = ((max HR − resting HR) × • The High Performance Podcast %Intensity) + resting HR

CREATE WEBSITES • Write an essay to critically review one • Examine a heart dissection here technological advancement which has influenced • TopEnd Sports - Sports Science Resources sports performance. • Investigate Sports Science Degrees at University of • Conduct a practical experiment which assesses Glasgow, Loughborough University & University of participant reaction time and produce an Nottingham academic poster. Consider: title, introduction, • Investigate Sports Nutrition Degrees at University method, results, discussion, conclusion and of Brighton, Leeds Trinity University & University of references. Exeter • Create your own protein bar using one of these • Investigate Physiotherapy Degrees at University of recipes. Nottingham, University of Kent and University of • Write an essay on the role of technology in sport Essex having watched this.

APPS VISITS • Download a fitness / health tracker. Use this to • Arrange a visit to Nottingham Trent University; monitor your performance and track Loughborough University or Nottingham improvements. University to look at their sports facilities / laboratory work. WATCH READ • Minute Physics • ‘Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of • Veritasium a Curious Character’ by Ralph Leighton • Interstellar Movie • ‘The Physics of Super Heroes’ by James Kakalios • The Martian Movie • ‘Forces of Nature’ by Prof Brian Cox and Andrew • The Theory of Everything Movie Cohen • TED Talks on Physics and Science • ‘A Brief History of Time’ by Stephen Hawking • Royal Institution Channel • ‘The Order of Time’ by Carlo Rovelli • ‘Why Does E=mc2?’ by Brian Cox and Jeff LISTEN Forshaw • Infinite Monkey Cage Podcast • ‘The Elegant Universe’ by • Physics Weekly Stories • Buy a copy of ‘New Scientist’ and read about • Physics World Stories current research topics • Supermassive podcast • In our time podcasts RESEARCH • Choose a topic that interests you. For example CREATE ‘General Relativity’ and watch YouTube videos • Record (e.g. on your phone) and explain a about it. demonstration of a key physics principle. This could be anything from how refraction occurs to COMPETITIONS why objects fall to Earth. • Compete in the British Physics Olympiad • The Oxford Scientist Essay Writing Competition WEBSITES • Apply to a summer school. Type ‘Physics summer • https://phys.org/ schools’ into google and there are lots to apply • Royal astronomical Society to. • I want to study Engineering • Sign up to Isaac Physics problem solving and VISITS events • Attend a Public Lecture about physics at Nottingham University • CERN • Jodrell bank • Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition WATCH • READ • BBC iPlayer - Trump takes on the world • The Guardian Politics • The Deal • Financial Times (ask your teacher for a free • Brexit: The uncivil war subscription) • Vice • The Telegraph • Suffragette • Private Eye • House of Cards • New Statesman • Knock the House Down (documentary) • Animal Farm 1984- • 13th (documentary) • Fire and Fury- Michael Wolff • Long Walk to Finchley • Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand • What happened by Hillary Clinton LISTEN • A Promised Land by Barack Obama • Talking Politics Podcast • Politics Review (speak to the librarian or your • Brian Lehrer Podcast teacher for access) • American Politics: A short introduction • The grand Tour a journey through British Politics RESEARCH • Find 10 interesting facts about the UK Supreme CREATE Court- Where is it? Who’s in it? Any famous • Watch an academic lecture from Gresham cases? College here and take notes on its relevance. COMPETITIONS WEBSITES • R.A. Butlet Prize in Politics From Trinity College • Tutor2u Politics Cambridge • Study Politics

APPS VISITS • New York Times • Houses of Parliament, London • Galleries of Justice, Nottingham • Washington Post WATCH READ • Design icons Case studies, challenge cards, • Subscribe to daily and engineering solutions weekly Newsletters. Designboom is the “world’s • D&T TV – videos on industry first and most popular digital architecture and • How to make BBC4 – You Tube – three episodes design magazine”. in total – one designer/maker sets out to make • Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New her own version of 3 everyday products – great Ideas in Just Five Days. By Jake Knapp 2016. Jake experiments, testing and product development Knapp created the Google Ventures sprint • Objectified (2009) documentary process—an approach of moving from idea to • Eames: The Architect and the Painter (2012) prototype to decision within five days. (Prime Video) • newdesign magazine: reports on the latest • The Big Life Fix (2016, 2018) series BBC2 design thinking, techniques and trends (episodes available to watch on YouTube) RESEARCH LISTEN • Open design example – specification • Designed for Life - series of podcasts. Creative topic. Inspiring starting points for Global projects industry designers discuss their work, technology extended project for their Duke of and what they have learned from failure as well Award or A level as success. • Discover what design is and what design can do • 99% Invisible - the podcast that marries architecture and design with everyday life. CREATE • Design Matters with Debbie Millman • Use the ideas machine to respond to a • Presentable -how we design and build the randomised design brief – in 60 seconds products that are shaping our digital future • Product Analysis- Use the principles of good design written by Dieter Rams to compare and • WEBSITES contrast a Post Modernist lamp with a Modernist • Virtual open days for design related further study lamp. • Digital Showcase of 2020 graduates product • Inclusive features and environments - Write a design work report from a day out that you have, where you identify and analyse the inclusive features or lack APPS of inclusivity when using transport, accessing • Download a free trial version of Fusion 360 and shops, using products. choose a tutorial to have a go at here VISITS COMPETITIONS • The Design Museum, London • Technology, Design and Innovation (TDI) • The V & A, London Challenge • Manchester Craft and Design Centre • Packaging design competition • William Morris Gallery, London • In June visit the product design degree shows at Nottingham Trent and Loughborough Universities WATCH READ • TED talks • Bad Science – Ben Goldacre • The Stanford prison experiment • Affluenza – by Oliver James • One Flew over the Cuckoos nest – Jack Nicholson • Psychology Review - ask your teacher or librarian • Nancy Kanwisher talks about a neural portrait of for access the human mind. This talk deals with brain • Bounce by Matthew Syed. The Myth of Talent localisation. and the Power of Practice. • Documentary. Genius of the modern world. Dr. • Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. How to achieve Sigmund Freud. It’s always worth understanding happiness. Freud in his historical context. • Mindset by Dr. Carol Dwek. Changing the way • RISE documentary. Do you know the meaning of you think to fulfil your potential. the term ‘recidivism’? • Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. • The Psychology of Tyranny: Did Milgram Get It • Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Wrong? TED talk by Alex Haslam. Gladwell. • The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good • Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman. People Turn Evil. TED talk by Philip Zimbardo. • Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. The power of • Good Will Hunting thinking without thinking. • Mememto • Phantoms of the brain; probing the mysteries of the human mind by V.S Ramachandran. LISTEN Unravelling the weirder cases in neurology can provide insights into how we perceive ourselves. • All in the mind – BBC Radio 4 • Steven Pinker: How the mind works. Why do • Mind Changers. BBC Radio 4. B.F Skinner and memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Superstition in the Pigeon. Why do fools fall in love? Why do we pursue • Mind Changers. BBC Radio 4. Julian Rotter and higher callings like art, religion and philosophy? Locus of Control. • Carl Jung; the Archetypes and the Collective • Mind Changers. BBC Radio 4. Case Study: HM- Unconscious. Our minds are connected to a The Man Who Couldn’t Remember. deeper layer of consciousness that speaks in • Mind Changers: Carl Rogers and the Person terms of imagery and myth. Centred Approach.

COMPETITIONS WEBSITES • Psychology Playlist From Oxford University • National Psychology Competition, Royal • Simply Psychology Holloway University • British Psychological Society • Tutor2U Psychology APPS VISITS • Illuminate Publishing • The Freud museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, • Research Digest BPS London NW3 5SX • The Science Museum WATCH READ • Breadline Britain • Sociology Review (Speak to your teacher or • TED talks librarian for access) • TED talk: Kandice Sumner – How America’s • Animal Farm - George Orwell public school keep kids in poverty. • Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood • Karl Marx on Alienation • Fawcett Society report – Parents, Work and Care: • Louis Theroux Documentaries Striking the Balance • The Wisdom of Sociology - Sam Richards • Domestic abuse • Oxford University Lecture on Big Data in • Toxic childhood: How the world is damaging our Sociology children and what we can do about it by Sue • Look at the impact of digital communication on Palmer society • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee • Child of Our Time (BBC) RESEARCH LISTEN • Use this publication: The Gender Gap in Religion • Podcast: Sociology of the personal life Around the World. What gender differences does • Radio 4 podcasts about being a single parent it identify? • The Social Breakdown Podcast • Radio 4 podcast ‘Do schools make a difference?’ COMPETITIONS • Radio 4 podcast ‘A subversive history of school • British Sociological Competition For A Level reform’ Students

WEBSITES VISITS • BBC Sociology Webpage has a wealth of • Visit the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal resources Green, London • British Sociological Association • v21 Art Space provides virtual tours through • Cost of Living subjects such as feminism WATCH READ • Two Catalonias, 2018 • The Spanish Civil War – Paul Preston, 2006 • Gente que viene y bah (In Family I trust), 2019 • No Pasarán! Writings from the Spanish Civil War • Ocho apellidos catalanes (Spanish Affair 2), 2015 – Pete Ayrton, 2016 • Las Chicas del Cable (Cable Girls), 2019 • The assassination of Federico García Lorca – Ian • Jamón, a story of essence, 2019 Gibson, 1979 • Spanish Civil War greatest battles, 2017 • The New Spaniards – John Hooper, 2006 • Pan’s Labyrinth, 2007 • Ghosts of – Giles Tremlett, 2012 • La Buena Vida, 2015 • Open Veins of Latin America – Eduardo Galeano, • A solas con el mar, 2019 1999 • La historia de España en 15 Minutos • Gramática en Contexto, 2011 • The passion of Andalucía • Short stories in Spanish for Beginners – Olly • Thrones of Semana Santa Richards, 2018 • Watch RTVE’s Telediario en 4’ (updated every • Penguin Spanish Short Stories, Parallel texts day) – make notes on the stories and look up any (Penguin), 1999 new vocabulary you encounter. • Watch this Granada TV documentary from 1983 LISTEN about the Spanish Civil War. Subsequent • Listen to the intermediate/upper intermediate episodes are also on YouTube. “Coffee Break Spanish” podcasts from RadioLingua. RESEARCH • Use RadioGarden and choose a Spanish-speaking • Using the internet, books and other media, country. Use the globe to listen to one or more research recent changes in the structure of the radio stations from that country. Note down any family in the Spanish-Speaking world. What are phrases/colloquialisms you hear. Adverts are the trends? How equal is Hispanic society in particularly good. general? • Find a topic you are interested in and listen to • Research a Spanish-Speaking city of your choice. the range of free TED en Español Podcasts. These Make a short brochure in Spanish (1-page leaflet) are quite challenging, but will provide lots of advertising that city. Include information about high-level vocabulary, culturally-rich language the history, principle attractions and and core structures. cultural/social make-up of the city. COMPETITIONS CREATE • Sheffield University Spanish Translation • Each month, find a news story in English. Simplify Competition the ideas and then write a newspaper article in • Oxford University Flash Fiction Competition Spanish about the same story. Remember to keep your ideas clear and focus on the word order. WEBSITES • Having watched one of the Spanish films/TV • Use Conjuguemos or the app ConjuGato to shows listed above, write a 200-250 word review practice verb conjugations. If working on a newer (in Spanish) of that film/show and share with tense, note down any patterns you spot in the your classmates. conjugations/irregular verbs. • Having listened to one of the Spanish • Use these sites to read the following Spanish- podcasts/radio stations listed above, write a 200- language newspapers: 250 word review (in Spanish) and share with El Mundo your classmates. El País • Read an article in a Spanish newspaper. Write a Público letter to the newspaper in response, giving your thoughts and opinions on/response to the article. APPS Keep your ideas clear. • Use the app “20 minutos – Últimos noticias” to • Visit this website which shows Heritage Sites in read the latest news stories in Spanish. Note Spain. Choose two and make a down any new vocabulary you encounter, topic- poster/presentation providing comparing them. specific or otherwise. Give your views on why they are considered • Use Conjuguemos or the app ConjuGato to ‘heritage’. practice verb conjugations. If working on a newer • Produce a video tour of your home town/local tense, note down any patterns you spot in the area in Spanish. How much information can you conjugations/irregular verbs. give? Share your video with friends/family and see how much information they can take from VISITS the video. • Take a trip to one of Nottingham’s many Spanish restaurants with your family/friends. Try to find out a little about the dishes you eat. You could try Bar Ibérico, Vida by Lorentes (both Hockley), Escabeche (West Bridgford) or Esquina (Long Eaton). WATCH READ • Audrey – More than an icon • Metric pattern cutting – Winifred Aldrich • Christian Dior – Designer of dreams • The complete book of sewing – Dorling • The September issue Kindersley • Coco before chanel • The complete guide to sewing – Readers Digest • Jeremy Scott – The peoples designer • Draping the complete course – Karolyn Kiisel • Dior and I • The little guides to style – The little book of Dior, • The Sewing Bee – BBC iPlayer Channel, Prada, Gucci. • Fabric manipulation – Ruth Singer LISTEN • Fabric for fashion, the complete guide – Clive Hallet and Amanda Johnston • Wardrobe crisis podcast • Fashion sketchbook – Lance Derrick • Sheer Luxe podcast • Fashion sketch book figure template – • The Vogue podcast Hawkstone press • Dressed – The history of fashion podcast • The business of fashion podcast CREATE RESEARCH • Fashion illustration – Research and make your own templates of different ways to produce • Sustainable fashion and textiles fashion design ideas • Ethical fashion and textiles • Create mood boards and design pages on a • Fibres and fabrics designer of your choice • Textiles techniques and process • Pattern cutting WEBSITES COMPETITIONS • Pattern Cutting - Monthly – Courses • The Sewing Workshop • Young Creative Awards • Sewing, Dressmaking & Craft Classes • Young Fashion Designer UK

APPS VISITS • Clothes show • Harper's Bazaar UK • Knit and stitch show • British Vogue • Graduate fashion week • Elle • University graduate exhibitions e.g. Nottingham Trent • Fashion and Textiles Museum, London • V&A Museum, London • Nottingham Lace Market Tour