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Widening Horizons 2018.Pages Widening Horizons 2018 ‘True education goes on throughout your life in many 2008-2009 SEASON different ways and places’ Beyond the Examination “Never just learn to pass exams. Learn for the sake of acquiring knowledge.” Much of what you do in class over the next few years will inevitably be focused on external examinations. But we all know there is much, much more to your education than just doing as well as you can in exams. True education goes on throughout your life in many different ways and places. Your teachers will often be able to take you way outside the exam syllabus but we want you to be able to find areas of academic interest that mean a lot to you personally and are not always restricted to the subjects you have chosen to study. This booklet is to help you think about areas that may spark off individual interests for you. They may cross subject boundaries and may help you develop areas of specialisms that you will be able to follow throughout your life, either as a professional interest or as an absorbing hobby. Take some time to read through subjects you may think you are not very interested in as well as those you are. Just because you have not chosen to follow a subject to GCSE or A Level does not mean that there will not be aspects of the subject that could absolutely fascinate you. We want you to find endless stimulation and challenge in intellectual areas. That has nothing to do with examination but everything to do with a full life. This booklet is a starting point. Page !2 Art Lower Fifth to Sixth Form • Saturday and Sunday broadsheet newspapers have an Art/Culture section. • Magazines- Such as Art Review, Art Forum, Creative Review, Tate Etc magazine, Printed Pages. Are all full of interesting artist references and articles. • Workshops- often held during the holidays at museums and galleries- try the MAC and the RBSA. The chance to try something new. • Visit exhibitions- BM&AG, The Ikon Gallery, Custard Factory- Digbeth, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Nearby is Wolverhampton, Coventry and especially The new Art Gallery, Walsall. Take any chance you have to visit London for Tate Modern, Tate Britain, The Royal Academy and The Saatchi Gallery. • Television programmes- The Culture Show, Imagine, Channel 4 documentaries, Front Row on Radio 4. • Art blogs-include, It’s Nice That, Creative Review, booooooom.com, ebsqart.com, these provide current information about exciting exhibitions and up and coming new artists. • When on holiday explore your surroundings and inquire about the local arts and crafts of the area. Visit museums, take photographs and do drawings of what you see. • Bookshops- second hand charity shops are great for finding interesting and cheap art books. • Take your camera and sketchbook everywhere! Page !3 Biology Lower Fifth to Sixth Form • Look at a science magazine e.g, Catalyst (lower school), Biological Review (upper school), New Scientist (Lower Fifth upwards). • CREST awards and Nuffield Bursaries in Lower Sixth. • Read the science sections of good quality newspapers. • Watch science on television... Horizon, Attenborough etc. • Visit museums (Natural History Museum (London), nature reserves, RSPB sites, Think Tank and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). • Conservation work with local Wildlife Trusts. • Read the Biology notice boards, they are full of relevant up to date science. Page !4 Chemistry Lower Fifth to Sixth Form Read around the subject as much as possible. Any science based book or magazine is appropriate, but below are some suggestions. Books: Molecules, P W Atkins, published Scientific American Library, ISBN 0716750198, library class no 541.6 The Periodic Kingdom, PW Atkins, published Weidenfeld & Nicholson, ISBN 0297816411, library class no 546.8 Molecules of Murder, John Emsley, published RSC, ISBN 9780854049653, library class no 615.9 Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks, published Picador, ISBN 033039027, library class no 509.2 Magazines: Catalyst, New Scientist, Chemistry Review. Also make use of all the opportunities available to you; some ideas are given below. Miscellaneous: The Royal Society of Chemistry (www.rsc.org) has a large number of resources for students. Look out for science talks and activities open to the public at the University of Birmingham and museums such as Think Tank. ‘Compound Interest’ (www.compoundchem.com) in order to subscribe (free) to receive news of the latest developments in Chemistry. Page !5 Classics Lower Fifth to Sixth Form From the Lower Fifth onwards we suggest that you broaden your experience of the ancient world by reading in translation some of the works of major Roman and/or Greek authors. We would suggest different genres of literature, but we would particularly recommend the following: Virgil: Aeneid Livy: History of Rome Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars Ovid: Metamorphoses Catullus: Poems Homer: Odyssey and Iliad Herodotus: Histories Aristophanes: Plays We also regard it as important that you try to visit major Roman and Greek sites and museums. We would recommend: Hadrian’s Wall; Fishbourne; The British Museum; The Museum of London; and The Ashmolean Museum. There are also major sites abroad throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. There are wonderful displays of artefacts in museums throughout the world, notable collections being in the Metropolitan in New York and the Hermitage in St Petersburg. Classical plays are commonly performed, usually in English, in London, Stratford, Oxford etc. In the Upper Fifth year, in the GCSE course, you will study authors in the original languages, and we hope that this experience will inspire you to want to read more Latin and Greek literature. The Classics Department will gladly give advice on this. For work experience, you could try to work in a museum, at the University, a Roman site (e.g the Lint at Coventry) or take part in an archaeological dig (you can join Young Archaeologists). Before entering the 6th Form, we provide a list of suggested reading. In the 6th Form, we distribute the Classical journal, Omnibus to students, which contains articles on a wide range of topics. Where time permits, we make suggestions as to wider reading, and we expect Oxbridge candidates to commit to a programme of extensive study in the summer before application. There exist a number of summer courses, mainly aimed at Sixth Formers, for those wishing to improve their Latin and Greek. In particular, there is a JACT course for those who wish to learn Greek from scratch. Page !6 Economics Lower Fifth to Sixth Form Text: • Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner • Super Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner • Tescopoly by Andrew Simms • How I made it: 40 Successful Entrepreneurs Reveal All by Rachel Bridge • The Economics Naturalist – Why economics explains almost everything by Robert H Frank • Happiness: Lessons from a new science. - Richard Layard • Chew on this. - Charles Wilson and Eric Schlosser Newspapers/Journals: • The Economic Review • The Times & Sunday Times • The Financial Times • The Business Review • The Economist • The Guardian Programmes and Movies: • The news • Newsnight • The Politics Show • The Apprentice • Dragons’ Den • Freakonomics • Black Gold • A Beautiful Mind • The Social Network Websites: • www.bbc.co.uk • www.tutor2u.net • www.bized.ac.uk • www.statistics.gov.uk Extra Curricular: • Girls are encouraged to attend talks and events that have been organised by the department and Economics Society Girls are encouraged to participate in various competitions that the department will offer. Page !7 English Lower Fifth to Sixth Form 1. Read as much as you can – try to find books that especially appeal to you and start to establish your personal preferences. There are some suggestions below. 2. Go to the theatre if at all possible. 3. Go to the cinema – or better still, watch DVDs/videos of important novels/plays made into films. Some are superb, some are not – you decide! 4. Visit places made famous by writers – Dorset (Thomas Hardy), the Lake District (Wordsworth and Coleridge), Birmingham (The Rotters’ Club Jonathan Coe) and Bath (Jane Austen). 5. Watch television: comedy programmes (the nature of the comedy), films (structure, visual effect) and advertising (the power of the media). THE BIG READ The BBC’s Big Read began the search for the nation’s best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books. Here are the top 15: 1 The Lord of the Rings, J R R Tolkien 2 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3 His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J K Rowling 6 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7 Winnie the Pooh, A A Milne 8 Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, C S Lewis 10 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11 Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12 Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 13 Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14 Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier 15 The Catcher in the Rye, J D Salinger Try to cultivate Scout’s attitude to reading! “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” Page !8 English Top 10 Films To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey) The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro) Kes (A Kestrel for a Knave Hines) Brokeback Mountain (E Annie Proulx) A Clockwork Orange (Burgess) Brighton Rock (Greene) Rebecca (Du Maurier) Orlando (Woolf) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Spark) Top 10 Books The Odyssey, Homer Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Hamlet, William Shakespeare Paradise Lost, John Milton Lyrical Ballads, Samuel Taylor
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