Christmas Concert

Back row from left to right:
Kei Kato, Jennifer Lau, Rachelle Ting, Harry Huang, Mikhail Kupriyanov.

Front row from left to right:
Xiya Liu, Noeru Someya, Bianca Chen, Victoria Diogo, Radika Patel and Lei Xia.

Students Emily Fung, Shobo Shobo and Pei Hung Tan not pictured were also part of the Merit group.

In September 2010 we introduced a two year GCSE scholarship for gifted students. Simran Patel and Emma-Jane Faulkner were part of this cohort and at the end of their first year at GCSE; both students sat module exams in English Language, History and Science. Simran achieved two "a*" grades and one "a" grade, Emma-Jane achieved 1 "a*" grade and two "a" grades, a real success for each student at the end of their first year with us.

Adrian Thacker (GCSE Course Director) is extremely happy with this year’s GCSE results, particularly those from the two-year programme:

It is testimony to Emma-Jane and Simran’s hard work last year. In fact, all of the two year GCSE students worked very hard and deserved what they achieved and I am very confident they will go on to achieve equally excellent final grades next Summer."

Pictured here: students: Simran Patel and Emma-Jane Faulkner with Mr Adrian Thacker (GCSE Course Director)

This year students ran various events for the charity "Children in Need". The charity helps to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and young people. The fundraising events this year included: everyone wearing spots or they were fined, selling cupcakes and sweets (which the students and staff made) placing coins on Pudsey bear and the Bush Tucker trials.

The Bush Tucker trials were taken as an idea from a TV programme "I’m a celebrity get me out of Here" set in Australia, it involves celebrities who take part in gruesome trials in the jungle. A collection of our GCSE students came up with 4 trials for our teachers: Mr Tatar, Mr Thacker and Mrs Robbins. Drinking flavoured milkshakes and guessing what they were made up of (ingredients such as spinach and sweet corn were included) picking eggs and cracking them on their heads (some were hard boiled some were raw) eating 4 donuts (whoever was the quickest won) and finally picking stars out of baked beans using only their mouths. It was a very messy but fun event and a big thank you to the teachers for being such good sports and taking part.

In total £750 was raised from Bosworth students for this charity, a very worthwhile donation!

Annually at the end of May the Northamptonshire branch of CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) stage a 3 day festival at Delapre Abbey in Northampton. The event attracts thousands of visitors from all over the county to come and sample over 300 beers, perries and ciders and to enjoy a variety of music. It is a really family friendly day out.

Students from Bosworth Independent College have for the past two years volunteered their services to help make this a successful event. CAMRA rely on 100% volunteers to run this event. They are given an insight into how the beer is produced, presented and served as well as the many skills they develop being part of a large and very efficient team.

In appreciation of the students’ contribution to the success of the festival, CAMRA have donated £250 to the Bosworth Student Council.

We asked the students to tell us more about their day:

It was a fantastic atmosphere and a thoroughly enjoyable experience, I would recommend for any student to take part."

"It was a really busy day we didn’t stop from the start to the end of our shift and we got a real sense of satisfaction from taking part. It was also interesting to learn about real ale and meet local people.’

We are extremely proud of our Bosworth maths team who recently won the County Regional Final Day of the UKMT National maths competition. Students: Baba Bob-Soile, John Cheng (top row), Chong Liu, Ciel Zhao (bottom row) made up the winning team, pictured here with Head of Maths, Mrs Gill Hills.

Every year the UK Mathematics Trust (UKMT) holds various maths competitions, this one the Senior Team Maths Challenge is aimed at Year 11 -13 students. The UKMT is a registered charity whose aim is to advance the education of children in mathematics. Last academic year over 600,000 students from 4,000 schools took part in the UK’s biggest national maths competition.

Twenty-three schools and colleges from the County got through to the Regional Final Day of this competition which took place at the University of Northampton.

The students competed in three rounds:

Group round: to answer 10 questions in 40 minutes. The teams must decide on their own strategy, work in pairs, as a group or individually.

Crossnumber: a mathematical crossword puzzle with one pair from the team solving the across clues and the other pair solving the down clues.

Mini-relay: members of the team have to answer mathematical questions, but the information passed from other members of the team is needed to solve them completely.

Every year there is extremely strong local competition and we are very pleased to have won this regional heat, our worthy opponents Oundle School and Kings School Peterborough came joint second. We are now through to the National Final which is to be held in London on the 1st February 2012. Good luck team we are all supporting you!

Ms Sue Griffin, giving a talk at the School in Villaviencio, Colombia

We are attending the Summer Programs & Boarding School Expo in Lagos at two venues on 14th and 15th October. We hope to meet you there!

See our travel itinerary and meet our admissions team in your city.

For further information including fees and how to apply, our new Summer School 2012 brochure is available.

We are attending the Summer Programs & Boarding School Expo in Bogota on 27th September. We hope to meet you there.

See our travel itinerary and meet our admissions team in your city.

Summer 2011
A-level Results

89 students sat a full range of A-levels

Percentage grade distribution
A*/A 50.5% (A* 19.2%/A 31.3%)
B 27.3%
C 15.8%
D 5.1%
E 1.3%

77.8% of grades were A*/A or B
93.6% of grades were A*/A, B or C

45% of students gained one A* grade
75% of students gained one A*/A grade
48.3% of students gained two A*/A grades
32.6% of students gained three A*/A grades
15.7% of students gained four A*/A grades
2.2% of students gained five A*/A grades

UCAS Points
A=120, B=100, C=80, D=60, E=40
Average score per exam taken = 107.9
Average UCAS points per student = 408

Top A-level student for 2011
Jessica Law achieved 3 A* and 2 A grades in one year

"With more and more students understanding the importance to their careers and life of attending an outstanding university, we realise that there is hugely increased competition for the most sought after places. It’s for this reason that we are so pleased that the co-operation and work ethic of our students and staff has produced such great results. In particular we are delighted with the fact that from the 89 students who sat their second year exams, 67 achieved at least one A grade and an astonishing 40 of them gained at least one A*."

Student Summer Ball 2011

To celebrate the end of the academic year 2010-2011, this year the College held a Leavers Concert & Awards Ceremony.

The programme of events included : piano playing, speeches, songs, students performing from "rock school" (pictured above), dance videos, memories a slideshow for the UFP students and an awards ceremony. It was a really fun event and a great way to say goodbye to those students leaving us at the end of this term.

The awards were for the following categories:
Top student awards by programme:

A2 (Radek Freyer runners up: Minh Trang Nguyen & Thai Son Dang)
UFP (Saquana LIN runners up: Ogechi Eze & Tracy Zhang)
GCSE/GEFL1 (Zhanar Yerdossova runners up: Chloe Brake & Becky Lindley)
PA/GEFL 2 /3 (Xiya Liu runners up: Susan Man & Hiro Hashimoto)
Friendliest student went to Ali Dorri (pictured above with Mrs Carter, Principal)
Best dressed student went to Chisato Aoki
Most International student went to Tosin Adamolekun
Most Artistic student went to Ted Li

Well done to all the above students and we wish them well with their future studies.

Inter-Schools Show Jumping Competition

"We Are Family"

Bosworth has a wonderful atmosphere and everyone is very friendly and the city of Northampton is a beautiful place.

The people I have met here I will never forget, they will be my friends forever. My English has massively improved thanks to Bosworth.

Over the last few months the Admissions department have been actively travelling to engage with parents and students, providing advice & guidance in relation to educational opportunities in Bosworth. On a recent trip to Nigeria Sue Griffin (Director Of Admissions), photoed above, visited El Amin International School in Minna and met the Principal; Mr Gabriel Ogah. As a result of this visit Sue is planning to return in October 2011 to give a presentation to the Parent-Teachers association and actually spend a full day in the school.

As an institution Bosworth is keen to expand our international partnerships as well as providing a diverse community across the College. This term Sue made similar trips to Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Yong Fang (Business Development Manager—South East Asia) has visited: China (9 different cities in total), Kazakhstan and Thailand. Mary Fitzgerald (Marketing & Education Manager) has visited: Romania, Lithuania, Latvia and Germany. Michael Frankland (from our Japan Office) is taking part in educational exhibitions in both Tokyo and Osaka.

To see more on our overseas travel arrangements and meet us overseas, be sure to keep an eye on our travel itinerary.

"Pure maths will be at the heart of any building and it is important for students to recognise the importance of this within any design. To make an unusual structure such as ‘the gherkin’ a geodesic dome the architect has to consider diameters and mathematical formulas involved. It is also a really fun exercise that the students take on with great enthusiasm."

Japanese students raising money (left to right): Takayuki Matsuda, Chisato Aoki and Hiroaki Hashimoto

The stables are at Boughton Mill, Chapel Brampton which is situated in the local countryside approximately 3 miles away. Students can join the riding school with no previous experience and the lessons are £15 an hour. After only a few lessons, students are able to ride unaided.

We encourage all our students to get involved in local activities and events, with the countryside on our doorstep there are lots of things on offer. It was the first time that both Samuel and Yang attended and they both loved the experience and want to return. This term, Gilmore has been a regular at the Stables and has made fantastic progress. His initiative and focused approach make him the model student.

Erika - GCSE Student Award

Erika Kemi with her parents

Frankie - College Prize

Frankie Man Tak Pang with Baroness Perry

Friday 3rd December 2010, the house parents at Victoria House organised for the students to have their own Christmas Party. It was a really fun event, the girls decorated their common room area, had a full finger buffet and Santa brought them all presents to open. It is great to see everyone getting into the Christmas spirit!

Last November, our Bosworth team: Joshua Ukpaka, Wayne Chan, Anastasia Venetska and Chong Liu took part in the Team Maths Challenge at Northampton University. There were 20 teams in total from schools all over Northamptonshire. Bosworth achieved third place in the competition and all those who took part agreed it was a really fun afternoon and worth attending in the future.

The students took part in three rounds:

Round 1 was answering ten questions in 40 minutes, working as a team.

Round 2 was working in pairs to fill in a crossword using numerical answers. One pair had to work on the across clues, the other pair on the down clues, but without communicating with each other.

Round 3 was a relay competition; one pair answered a question, passed the answer to the other pair to use for their working out and then returned their answer for the next question and so on.

Congratulations to the students involved on achieving third place, pictured above with Mrs Gill Hills (Head of Maths).

When students produce work that exceeds teachers expectations or they do something which helps other students or in the local community they may be awarded a merit form. When an individual student accumulates 12 forms in a term parents are informed and at the end of the term those with the most merit forms meet with the College Principal Mrs Carter to be congratulated for their efforts. For the end of last year the following students made the top list (in order from top left):

Audrey Chin, Ogechi Eze, Ciel Zhao, Michelle Lai, Chris Sun, Dasha Lzubymova, Xiya Liu, Jillian Lam and Emma Jane Faulkner.

Three of our A Level students have successfully completed an Open University distance learning module. Students independently register for these modules for a variety of reasons; personal interest in a topic, to widen and broaden their experience of a subject and to add an extra dimension to their personal statements on their UCAS forms.

For all of them it is a great personal achievement as they have completed a module at the same level of the first year of a University course - proving they have the aptitude for degree study.

Students pictured above are: Adaeze Egwuagu, Viet Tien Nguyen and Matthew George with (Director of Studies) Mr John Bromilow. Each student completed a different module, Adaeze - "start writing fiction", Tien - "Introducing astronomy" and Matthew - "Start listening to music".

Students are given an online tutor who marks their work and offers guidance as they study. Some assessments are essay based, others are questions based which are completed at the end of the module.
Students can either submit work in July or October, and we have 6 more Bosworth students who are currently hoping to submit work in October. They are covering a variety of topics: "human nutrition", "human genetics & health issues", "introduction to book keeping", "molecules, medicines & drugs" and "elements of forensic science".

Mr John Bromilow explains "Each student has to dedicate a considerable amount of time to a module alongside their heavy A Level workload and we are very proud of their achievement. It is teaching them skills in self discipline, self motivation and time management. Also in the current University environment with more competition for every place having an extra string to their bow is important."

For further information including fees, our new Summer School 2011 brochure is available.

Christine Luo

Frankie Pang

Bosworth are wishing them every continued success with their studies and look forward to tracking their future progress.

"We all knew this year it was going to be much tougher for students to get good offers, but looking at the results we are very confident that most, if not all of our students will be studying their subject of choice next year."

Our (HTS) Highly Trusted Sponsor licence has been granted – August 2010

Last October, Bosworth Independent College students had the opportunity to speak live to a student and teacher from a school for the blind in Tanzania. The teacher was an ex student of the school and was also blind.

The school was set up approximately 10 years ago and is a salvation for the blind students who are chosen as before they would have been in classes of over 100 children in a normal school, which obviously limited their ability to learn.

The link up was part of the BBC ‘Hunger to Learn’ series and Bosworth Independent College was chosen because of its international student mix.

Five Bosworth students got the opportunity to take part throughout the day and we were on two channels BBC world and BBC news channel. Students were sat in front of a web cam, watching themselves as well as the student and teacher in Tanzania on the screen.

Through the headset the BBC gallery staff instructed the students how long they had before going live to the link up. Once live, the students on average got to ask about 4 questions each.

The Tanzanian student understood some of our questions and we did manage to find out his favourite football team was Everton! The teacher was able to explain to us in more detail what life is like in Tanzania, what the school day consisted of and why he had chosen to go into teaching.

It was a fascinating insight for Bosworth students to take part in the live link up and to get to understand how little some schools have in the way of facilities. It was a humbling experience for all involved and definitely made the students recognise how lucky they are to receive a good education.


Time Slots
10.30 BBC world – Anastasia Venetska (Ukraine)
10.40 BBC news channel – Radek Freyer (Polish)
11.30 BBC news channel – Chak Sum Leung (Chinese)
14.30 BBC world – Sam Flowers (British)
14.40 BBC news channel – Harpreet Kaur (British)

The BBC news live link-up with Harpreet is available to view on the BBC website.

Hannah Ye – Award Winner (Bosworth College CIFE prize)

Oi Yean Wong – Award Winner (Achievement in Science)

During the summer months of July and August, Bosworth Independent College is home to over 50 students joining their Summer School UK programme.

Each group is kept to a maximum of 15 and they are grouped according to their English abilities. Last year year we had 11 different nationalities; Brazilian, Chinese, German, Italian, Malaysian, Mongolian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

As we strive to support the local business community we will always look to source Summer School activities within the County. Students will visit many local tourist attractions; Northampton museum & art gallery, Abington Park museum, Stoke Bruerne (picture of students shown above), Althorp House and Rockingham Castle.

The town centre is also regularly visited during the programme offering a number of activities such as; shopping, Tenpin bowling, Laser Zone & Vue cinema, all ideal for the British weather! On sunnier days, students enjoy team building and orienteering at Brixworth Country Park and cycling around Pitsford Reservoir.

The course director Rachel Tatar explains,

"Our experienced teachers make a real difference to the students written and spoken English over the 6 week programme. By giving students a worthwhile experience at Summer School we encourage them to consider the UK as a future study option either at a School or University."

Currently at Bosworth Independent College 174 of our 192 A Level students choose to study Maths at A Level, with many of these students also opting for A Level Further Maths. Last year, our students achieved a 100% pass rate at A Level in these subjects, with 73% of students gaining an A grade and a further 18% a B grade.

Therefore, it is fair to say Maths is a core subject at Bosworth, and because of the number of students we have studying this subject at A Level we are able to offer 16 different units out of a possible 18 available.

To incorporate this number of units we actually have 51 different A Level groups with an average of 8 students in each group. Which obviously means timetabling this subject in itself proves a mathematical challenge! However, having 18 maths teachers on hand helps.

The students can choose statistics, mechanics or decision maths to go alongside the compulsory pure maths units and with students from 22 different nationalities opting for maths each Bosworth student has a very unique learning experience.

Furthermore, this year we entered a number of students into the Maths Challenge competition which is set for AS Level students. Of those who participated; eight students achieved gold, thirteen silver and four bronze medals.

Three of our gold medal winners qualified to enter the first round of the Maths Olympiad and one of these students, Minh Trang Nguyen, won a place in round 2 of the Olympiad from which the National team is chosen. This is an exceptional achievement and we are eagerly awaiting her results.

"Work experience for students of this age group provides a great insight into the world of work and the students certainly return with increased confidence".

• We have postponed the Art and Russian oral exams and will re-scheduled them as students return
• Special consideration for students affected by a delayed return will be submitted to the various exam boards
• Use your time effectively to revise and go to the relevant subject web sites (AQA, Edexcel and OCR) to find past papers.
• Should students have any particular subject questions please email your questions to admin10@bosworthcollege.com. On your email please state clearly in the subject box your course and subject. For example if you have a question related to geography write: GCSE/Year 2/Geog. Your emails will be referred to the relevant Head of Departments.
• Once students are back the College will provide additional lessons as necessary.
  

Under 18 Table-Tennis Champ

This year the College is running for the first time the Duke of Edinburgh Award. This is open to all of our students and has three levels: Bronze, Silver and Gold. The participants choose to develop their skills in three areas: Skills, Physical Activity and Service. The awsard is a great way to pick up new experiences, friends and talents that will stay with them for life. This award is highly valued by both universities and employers, and can benefit students when submitting the UCAS applications.

Those on the scheme have been working with ‘Young Creations’ a voluntary organisation made up of able and disabled participants. The aim of the organisation is for young people to express themselves through the arts. Pictured above in this year’s Panto Performance! Bosworth student Krupesh presents a cheque to Romeo and Cinderella otherwise known as Jacob and Laura. Bosworth students raised the money through holding fundraising events.