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.
Winning Formula
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!
Summer 2011 A Level Results
Summer 2011
A-level Results
(The following results have not been audited by The Council for Independent Education)
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
A Level Results Day at Bosworth Independent College 2011
At a time of increasing competition for university places Bosworth Independent College is delighted with results that enable its students to attend leading universities around the country. With over 93% of the grades achieved being in the A* to C range, over 77% being
A or B, and more than 75% of students gaining at least one A grade, it is hardly surprising that the large majority will now be attending their first or insurance choice university.
Equally, in the most competitive universities A* grades are increasingly being used to differentiate between very good and excellent applicants and with 45% of our students gaining at least one A* grade, their chances of attending the very best institutions have been hugely enhanced.
Executive Principal, Mr McQuin, comments;
"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*."
Our top achieving A Level student Jessica Law gained three A* grades and two A grades, but astonishingly achieved this in one year. She is planning to study Accounting and Finance at Bath University.
A2 students (left to right: Matthew George, John Corcoran, Nilen Patel & Mark Sumner) collecting their results and showing Mr McQuin (Executive Principal).
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.
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.
Open University Module
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."
Outstanding Performance
Christine Luo
(pictured above), from Hangzhou in China – who achieved four A* grades and one A grade in the following subjects:Accounting, Chinese, Maths and Further Maths (A*) / Economics (A grade)
Christine will be studying Business Mathematics and Statistics at LSE.
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Frankie Pang
from Hong Kong - achieved four A* grades and one A grade in the following subjects:Biology, Chemistry, Maths and Physics (A*) / Chinese (A)
Frankie will be studying Chemical Engineering at Manchester University.
Bosworth are wishing them every continued success with their studies and look forward to tracking their future progress.
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)
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.
