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SPRING NEWS 2015 In this issue College achievement p.2 – 4 Academic achievement p. 5 – 9 Enrichment achievement p.10 – 18 Community achievement p.19 – 20 Parent and community information p.21 – 24 Be happy, Be ambitious, Make a diff erence! SPRING N e w s 2 015 College achivement SPRING N e w s 2 015 Welcome to the spring term edition of the newsletter. There have been so many fantastic successes this term that it’s hard to pick out the highlights. We had a great time dressing up as our favourite book characters for World Book Day, which is just one of the many events you can read about to promote a love of reading across the college. We have also seen continued success in sport, at both a team and an individual level and academic success with two of our Y13 students, Oliver and Hanesh, Dyslexia Friendly School being offered places at Cambridge University. This year we have been working towards becoming an accredited Dyslexia Friendly Our work with Curve and the RSC has moved onto a new level this term as we have reached School. Congratulations to Abubakr Razzaque, 13LFD, on winning the Dyslexia Friendly out to support local schools in developing their love of Shakespeare and are involved in the school college logo design.We hope to now use this on letters and in correspondence celebrations around the internment of Richard lll; and our challenge of raising money for our around the school. Childsmile charity will reach new heights (literally!) over Easter when the Childsmile Team attempt the ambitious Three Peaks Challenge. Please read page 19 to see how you can support them Here are some comments from students and staff on their experiences of being dyslexic: for this fantastic cause. We are very proud of our students and their continued success in all areas. Thank you to all the “I learn best through visual aids and make use of a range of multi-sensory staff and parents who continue to support our students to be the very best that they can be. We information. I avoid long spoken lists and always write things down to hope you enjoy reading the newsletter and I hope parents and carers will particularly take the remember. I would recommend having subject specifi c key words to hand. time to read the important information section for them on pages 21 – 23. Being organised has helped me overcome some of my dyslexia problems.” Mr Patel I will leave you with a favourite quote from Sindy Soor, our post-16 Learning Mentor: ‘Spending today complaining about yesterday won’t make tomorrow any better’ “I found out I had dyslexic age 6 years old. I fi nd it hard sometimes. I’m active and I like making things. I would describe dyslexia in 3 words as: Anti-bullying Week Awkward Reading Rampage Inspirational 2014 World Book Day Normal.” Y13 student Y7 and Y8 are currently involved in a project “I discovered I was talented at Arts and Crafts and wanted to pursue a called Reading Rampage. The aim of the project On 5th March, students and staff celebrated our career out of this. I carried onto College and retook my GCSE English is to inspire and motivate children aged 11 –13 love of reading on World Book Day by dressing which I really needed, and also achieved some good A-LEVELS in Art, to become active readers, develop and support up as their favourite book characters. We had a Graphics and Photography. When I passed English, I felt I had overcome reading for pleasure and promote awareness of new range of Katniss Everdeens, Red Riding Hoods, this stage of my Education and went to University.” Mr Sahota titles/authors. Wimpy Kids and Harry Potter characters from the “I found out I was dyslexic in year 4. I have a good memory and which students, whilst the staff got into the spirit en masse The students have been introduced to 20 new and exciting young adult fi ction/non-fi ction means I know how to do things over and over again. I often feel tired at representing characters from Óf Mice and Men, night because my brain feels like its playing catch-up from all the information books, to increase reading of books and writing of book reviews, leading to an awards 1984, Dracula, Lord of the Rings and …?. ceremony on June 4th at Leicester Tigers ground. I’ve had to learn in the day.” Y8 student In the morning of World Book Day, we launched “I would recommend telling somebody if you are struggling with reading Students are being encouraged to read as many of the 20 titles as possible between 9th our new project: The Book That Changed My Life and writing and not to worry. You need to be tested for dyslexia to check.” During anti-bullying week, Kyah Frederick and the Anti-bullying Action Team ran a poster March and 22nd May and complete book reviews using the library software- Eclipse. - a series of short videos, fi lmed by our Pupil Literacy Y8 student competition. The standard and quality of the posters was fantastic and after a vote from all Students who make a signifi cant effort with this will be invited to a big City wide event Leaders, of various staff talking about their favourite students, Nilam Modhwadhia (8OM) was judged the winner of the fi rst prize of an IPod at the Leicester Tigers ground on 4th June, where they will get a chance to meet authors book. The fi rst video to be shown was Mr Cook “Growing up with dyslexia never really affected me growing up. There shuffl e. Nilam’s poster has now become the offi cial anti-bullying poster for TCOLC. The and win prizes. talking about the book that changed his life: Going wasn’t as much knowledge around it as there is now. So I wasn’t aware I runners up were Rehmat Juma 7NRD and Maria Umar 8RLP. We would like to congratulate Solo by Roald Dahl. Students then read an extract had it, I just thought I was forgetful, clumsy and couldn’t spell. When I was During Author Week, 50 Y7 students are also getting the opportunity to go to Leicester all the students who participated. from Going Solo. diagnosed at university a lot of what had happened to me started to make Tigers ground to listen to author Andy Briggs. During this day the students will hear about sense.” Mr Austin The college was decorated with blue streamers that week, on which students wrote their his work and then take part in an interactive writing workshop. Many thanks to Ms Permal for her organisation of own strong anti-bullying messages. Kyah and her team also ran assemblies to highlight the the day and to the Pupil Literacy Leaders who are Many thanks to Mrs Penfold for her organisation of these opportunities. issues of bullying and to encourage students to speak out against bullying and the students leading The Book That Changed My Life project, saw a powerful production called Hope based on real-life stories. especially Dylan Rana (8PES) who has been working really hard to edit the videos. A reminder that students can report any concerns about bullying to Kyah and the ABAT or on our dedicated email address: [email protected] 2 3 Be happy, be ambitious, make a diff erence SPRING N e w s 2 015 College achivement Academic achivement SPRING N e w s 2 015 Yes You Can At the beginning of March, 11 Y8 students graduated from the Yes You Can project that took place over a 20 week period. The course taught the students that they can achieve anything they put their minds to. Congratulations to: Alim Bachoo, Milad Yazdanin, Havir Deo, Jaidyn Brown, Yusuf Sajid-Ali, Michel Barret, Jack Lingard, Mudathir Mayambara, Inia Herbert, Callan Nolan, Kaleese Simms. Art Work Y11 and post 16 students have been working hard in preparation for their fi nal exam pieces. Here are some examples of their work in progress. BT Mentor Network 10 students in Y10 and Y11 are taking part in an exciting new Careers project in partnership with BT (British Telecom). The City of Leicester College is hugely proud to have been selected by BT as the fi rst school outside of London to join its prestigious Mentor Network. The network provides students with professional advice and guidance from their own designated BT Mentor. The Mentor Team is made up of 5 experienced BT professionals with a vast range of experiences across different business areas, including high-level engineering, procurement and project management. Before being chosen for the project, the 10 students involved had to pass through a demanding selection process involving a written application followed by a one-to-one interview. From now on the students will receive regular after-school sessions with their designated BT Mentors. During these sessions, students will draw upon the experience and expertise of their Mentors to help them set, work towards and achieve a range of Shadow General Election. personal goals. Sayeed Kadir is the lead Mentor for the project and works as a Business Connection Engineer and Data Specialist for BT. Sayeed says “This is an exciting opportunity for Have YOUR say... us to be working with the students. They have taken their fi rst step towards their self- empowerment journey and have a great opportunity to draw on the varied experiences that the Mentors have to offer.