With Merit
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.
Leavers Concert and Awards Ceremony
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.
CIFE Prize Winners
CIFE Prize Winners
Bosworth Independent College is a member of an organisation called CIFE (Council for Independent Education). This is an organisation made up of 17 independent colleges in the UK, dedicated to pursuing excellence at GCSE and A Level. Every year they hold an Academic Awards Presentation at the House of Lords in London which is hosted by Baroness Perry of Southwark (former Chief Inspector of Schools).Erika - GCSE Student Award
Erika joined us at Bosworth Independent College in September 2009 to take a one-year intensive GCSE course; she completed this successfully, achieving A* grades in all of her eight GCSE subjects, including full marks in both physics and chemistry. She achieved marks of 180/200 in English literature and 359/360 in French. This latter exam required her to translate from her second language to her fourth – her first language is Japanese but she also speaks fluent Italian! As well as this academic brilliance, Erika has a truly lovely personality - words our teachers have used to describe her include dedicated, modest and popular. Bosworth Independent College is delighted to have been involved in her education and we, like her parents, are truly proud of her achievements. Erika has now progressed onto our two year A Level programme to study: Biology, Chemistry, French & Mathematics.
Erika Kemi with her parents
Frankie - College Prize
We were delighted to be able to award Frankie the Bosworth Independent College prize. He is presently studying for a degree in chemical engineering at the University of Manchester. Frankie achieved five A grades at A level last year, four of which were A* (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Maths) - the subject that he achieved ‘merely’ an A grade in was his native language, Cantonese! He achieved full marks in 6 units, with an average mark of 92%. Frankie is much more than intelligent – his teachers describe him as being the perfect role model for the younger students and nothing that we, or others, asked of him was ever too much trouble. He is also remembered for his great sense of humour. Although there were very many other highly achieving students at Bosworth last year, the decision to award Frankie the college prize was unanimous.
Frankie Man Tak Pang with Baroness Perry
Maths Challenge
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).
Merit Forms
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.
CIFE Award Winners
Hannah Ye – Award Winner (Bosworth College CIFE prize)
Hannah did exceptionally well in her A Level exams, gaining 6 A grades in Maths, Further Maths, Economics, Business Studies, Accounting and Chinese. Hannah has progressed to the University of London where she has chosen to study Economics and Business with East European Studies.
Hannah’s mother and brother (also an ex Bosworth student) attended the award ceremony and expressed their pride at her achievements.
Hannah had many interests whilst at Bosworth she: qualified as a First Aider, volunteered for Cancer Research UK and passed an Open University Course on Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis.
Hannah with her Mum and Brother (above left) and Hannah receiving her award (above right)
Oi Yean Wong – Award Winner (Achievement in Science)
Oi Yean within her Science A Levels gained the highest marks possible in 17 out of a possible 24 units, a truly gifted scientist. From studying on our 18 month A Level programme, Oi Yean went onto achieve 4 A grades in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Maths as well as a grade A in Chinese at AS Level.
Along with her talents for Science, Oi Yean is a gifted musician and middle distance runner. We wish her continued success at Newcastle University where she is studying Medicine.
Oi Yean and Mrs Carter (Vice Principal) (above left) and Oi Yean receiving her award (above right)
Students take up mathematical challenge
Minh Trang Nguyen pictured with her Olympiad award – an exceptional achievement
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.
Northamptonshire County table-tennis under 18 champion
(Pictured above: Cavan Tian Vun Foo winning the County title at his first attempt)
Under 18 Table-Tennis Champ
Bosworth Independent College is very proud to announce that student Cavan Tian Vun Foo, from Malaysia, has just won the Northamptonshire County Table-Tennis (Single) Under 18 Championship 2010. Cavan joined our 18 month A Level programme in January 2010. He joined the local Table-Tennis club three months ago and currently trains with them two evenings a week.For the Singles title, whilst Cavan was seeded number one, in the Final he had to fight off competition from the Two Time Defending Champion, a true challenge. With a 2-0 lead his opponent fought back to 2-2 but he finally clinched it 3 sets to 2 to take the Under 18 Single title.
Cavan also competed in the Under 18 Doubles title, seeded number two for the doubles his partnership managed to beat the number one seeded pair. With his partner Aaron Ark he managed to hold off the competition in 3 sets to 2.
Every week Cavan will also take part in a League match and currently he is ranked 21/500 in this League.
Well done Cavan on your superb achievement within your first 4 months at Bosworth! We wish you continued success with the Northamptonshire County Club.
'AS' Physics Olympiad 2009/2010
The Exam was taken some weeks ago and the results for our students are as follows:
Foo, Tien Vun Cavan
Tang, Tsz Ho (Kevin)
Aghoghovbia, Vome
Sze, Chun Yian
ALL RECEIVE PARTICIPATION CERTIFICATES
Cheung, Hoi Man (Ariel)
Chang, Jun
Tran, Ngoc Lan
Nguyen Viet Tien
Tran, Yen Ngoc
ALL RECEIVE BRONZE AWARDS (40% -- 60%)
Lai, Ka Chun
RECEIVES A SILVER AWARD (62%)
Thai, Son Dang
RECEIVES A GOLD AWARD (78%)
WELL DONE TO ALL PARTICIPANTS. REMEMBER TO PUT YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS EVENT ON YOUR U.C.A.S. FORM NEXT YEAR!
Duke of Edinburgh Award
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.
