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.