Department Year 13 Information Year 13 Wider Reading List: 1) Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours - Tarun Khanna An investigation into Asia’s two growing economic powers.
2) Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur - Sir Richard Branson The autobiography of Britain’s most famous entrepreneur. Business 3) Sun Tzu - The Art of War for Managers: 50 Strategic Rules Updated for Today's Business - Gerald A. Michaelson Applying the ancient Studies Chinese rules of battle to modern day business
Below are some useful websites: Freakonomics Podcast www.businesscasestudies.co.uk
Year 13 Wider Reading List:
1. bell hooks - A critical introduction to media and communication theory (2013) by Catherine Squires.
2. Media Control: Naom Chomsky on the power of fake news and media bias in the digital age.
3. Amusing Ourselves to Death (2010 edition): Neil Postman on how the need to entertain influences politics and religion. Media Below are some useful websites: A recruitment and information site for the news industry: https://www.journalism.co.uk/
Media Insider YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGXfqzVEZr0XaZLWG3_HniA
Year 13 Wider Reading List: 1. Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing (The MIT Press) - Martin Erwig. In Once Upon an Algorithm, Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes place beyond electronic computers, and computer science as the study of systematic problem solving. 2. Head First Python: A Brain-Friendly Guide – Paul Barry. With Head First Python, you’ll quickly grasp Python’s fundamentals, working with the built-in data structures and functions. Then you’ll move on to building your very own webapp, exploring database management, exception handling, and data wrangling. 3. Head First Java: A Brain-Friendly Guide – Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates. Learning a complex new language is no easy task especially when it's an object-oriented computer programming language like Java. You might think the problem is your brain. It seems to have a mind Computer of its own, a mind that doesn't always want to take in the dry, technical stuff you're forced to study. Science
Below are some useful websites: Craig and Dave YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/craigndave/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=4 Isaac Computer Science: https://isaaccomputerscience.org/ Computing at School Resources: https://community.computingatschool.org.uk/resources/list?action=index&category=129&controller=resources
Year 13 Wider Reading List: Noam Chomsky - the ‘father of modern linguistics’: http://lingphil.mit.edu/papers/chomsky/chomsky_articles.pdf https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/noam-chomsky-interview/
Below are some useful websites: English Language Useful – and fun linguistics blogs: https://www.york.ac.uk/language/current/resources/blogs-fun/
Where does a linguistics degree take you? https://www.prospects.ac.uk/careers-advice/what-can-i-do-with-my-degree/linguistics
Year 13 Wider Reading List:
The Six Wives of Henry VIII Alison Weir Lancaster and York- Alison Weir Elizabeth I Alison Weir History Below are some useful websites: Love Tudor History? Here is a List of Sites to Check Out! – Tudors Dynasty Martin Luther King Jr. - Biography - NobelPrize.org Wars of the Roses | Summary, History, Family Tree, & Facts | Britannica
Year 13 Wider Reading List: The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes Ways of Seeing by John Berger The 12 Million Stuffed shark: The currency of economics of contemporary Art by Don Thompson.
TV/FILM: Grayson Perry’s Rites of passage on 4OD Art, Craft & Portrait Artist of the Year (SKY)
Design Below are some useful websites: https://www.studentartguide.com www.artnet.com www.artnews.com https://thisiscolossal.com
Year 13 Wider Reading List:
Chavs: the dehumanisation of the working class by Owen Jones Sociology of Fyn by Bryn Fincham On Liberty Shami Chakrabarti Invisible Women – Caroline Criado Perez Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
Sociology Why I am no Longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo Lodge
Below are some useful websites: http://www.podology.org.uk/ for Sociology Podcasts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05
Radio 4 Thinking Aloud. Each episode is on the BBC website and includes a brief summary of what is included.
Year 13 Wider Reading List:
Fiction This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay, 2004. Secret diaries of a Junior Doctor during his medical training from 2004 to 2010 Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healy, 2014. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 1962. Health and No Child of Mine by Susan Lewis, 2013. Below are some useful websites: Social Care
You can search through the websites below and sign up for online courses in different areas of health and social care. Some are free, others charge a small fee
https://www.futurelearn.com/ https://www.reed.co.uk/courses/free/health-social-care/online https://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses Year 13 Wider Reading List:
KS5 Wider Reading List:
General science/Biology: Bad Science – Ben Goldacre A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
Genetics: Junk DNA – Nessa Carey The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
Medicine: This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay The man that mistook his wife for a hat – Oliver Sacks Biology Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
Fiction: The Red Queen – Matt Ridley Frankenstein’s cat – Emily Anthes The House of God – Samuel Shem
Scientific Biology Journal for young people: The Big Picture is an excellent publication from the Wellcome Trust. Along with the magazine, the company produces posters, videos and other resources aimed at students studying for GCSEs and A level. All freely accessible and we have hard copies in the science department. http://bigpictureeducation.com
Below are some useful websites:
TED Talks Biology Ideas about Biology (ted.com) http://bigpictureeducation.com
Freely accessible retrieval practice for Biology to revise or fill knowledge gaps. Seneca - Homework & Revision Platform (senecalearning.com)
Y13 Wider reading: These books will provide you with a a wider scope to understand our course and reading any one of them will put you in a really good position to be able to discuss global processes at a high level: Geography: Ideas in profile - Danny Dorling and Carl Lee Fred Pearce- when the rivers run dry Native: Race and class in the ruins of Empire - Akala Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall James Lovelock [1979]: Gaia, a new look at life on Earth – OUP; [2006]: The Revenge of Gaia – Penguin David King & Gabrielle Walker (2009): The Hot Topic: How to Tackle Global Warming…………. - Bloomsbury Al Gore [2006]: An Inconvenient Truth –Bloomsbury Geography Hans Rosling- Factfulness ga_p16readinglist.pdf (geography.org.uk)
Below are some useful websites:
Podcasts/Youtube channels: the curious geographer - YouTube
National Geographic - YouTube
Royal Geographical Society - 'Ask the geographer' podcasts (rgs.org) Curious Geographer on Youtube - a great resource of videos and interviews with world class Geographers American Factory on Netflix (2019) - fascinating documentary that will illuminate ideas we have studied in across the course such as deindustrialisation, global powers, interlinked economies, and a changing sense of place. A must watch! Antarctica: A year on ice Documentary (2013) - Interesting documentary following the lives of scientists living on bases on Antarctica throughout one year.
Again, it's really important that you are able to relate what you've learnt to current events. These podcast range from 10 mins to an hour so you can fit them in really easily!: The Economist podcast Financial Times News Briefing podcast (10 mins a day!) Talking Politics: History of Ideas podcast About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
Y13 Wider reading:
Periodic Tales, The Curious Lives of the Elements - Hugh Aldersey-Williams Nature’s Building Blocks, An A-Z Guide of the Elements – John Emsley A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson Why Chemical Reactions Happen – James Keeler & Peter Wothers What is Chemistry? - Peter Atkins
Below are some useful websites: Chemistry Stepping up to Chemistry The University of York have created a website for pre-degree students to brush up on their knowledge and skills for all science related degrees https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/undergraduate/newstarters/step-up/
Exploring Everyday Chemistry (Online course) https://www.york.ac.uk/study/moocs/exploring-everyday-chemistry/
Oxford Academic Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3MAPgqN8JWirpO2CxoNwCN_HngBRflqx Y13 Wider reading: The link below takes you to a selection of "rich tasks" from the NRICH collection, chosen because they are ideal for developing subject content knowledge as well as mathematical thinking and problem-solving (process) skills. o Post-16 Curriculum (maths.org)
This free online STEP Support Programme is offered by the University of Cambridge to help university applicants develop their advanced mathematical problem-solving skills and prepare for STEP mathematics exams. o https://maths.org/step/
This link contains question sheets which are sent out to new students by many colleges before they arrive to start their undergraduate degree. https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate-study/practice-problems
Maths Online Graphical Calculators and Resources:
Desmos | Graphing Calculator https://completemaths.com/autograph/tutorials#
Below are some useful websites:
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate-study/careers https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/careers-advice/what-can-you-do-mathematics-degree
YR13 wider reading Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Dr Allan Ropper and Brian David Burrell. Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson. The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt. The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson
Psychology Useful websites https://www.bps.org.uk/ https://psychcentral.com/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb https://www.spring.org.uk/
YR13 wider reading 50 Facts Everyone Should Know about Crime & Punishment: The Truth Behind The Myths. (Treadwell & Lynes, 2019) The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice (Editors: Pamela Ugwudike, Hannah Graham, Fergus McNeill, Peter Raynor, Faye S. Taxman, Chris Trotter, 2019) Podcasts Criminology https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pluto-press-radicals-in-conversation/id1286687196?i=1000441306579 (Grenfell tower) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009cf1 (Serial killers)
Useful websites https://www.internetjournalofcriminology.com/criminology-links https://thebscblog.wordpress.com/