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Enrichment Week Inclusion Department Employability Workshop PricewaterhouseCoopers delivers a dynamic workshop to Year 10 pupils. Year 7 Arts Week This year’s Arts Week was a huge success! The theme was comm<strong>unity</strong> and art practitioners came to visit and shared their skills with our pupils who produced some absolutely brilliant work. Kim Noce ran an animation workshop, Evren Mustafa ran a sculpture workshop making gliders, Tamara Froud ran a mosaic workshop and her previous work is already displayed around the school. Milikyas Ephrame in 7D said ‘I feel honoured that my work will be displayed in the school and that others will be able to see it in years to come’. Pupils made ceramic pots with Chris Bramble and created some fantastic animation with John Harmer. Pupils worked with three artists over the week expanding their creative and collaborative skills. A big thank you to all who took part and look out for this year’s artwork displayed and around the school. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) operates in 157 countries with more than 195,000 employees delivering assurance, tax and advisory services. The focus of the workshop was employability and included consideration of timing, dress, first impressions, making an impact, internet profiling, interview preparation and even how to shake hands. Fifteen staff from PwC supported the boys with activities and tasks to improve their understanding, preparation and readiness for entering the working world. The morning culminated with each boy being interviewed in a realistic situation and given feedback on their performance. The group were visited by Ian Powell, Chairman and Senior Partner of PwC UK, who gave a motivational talk about his experience of the world of work and answered questions from the group. In the future we hope that some of the boys may be able to experience a work placement at PwC and be offered support with CV writing, among other things. Ms T Mustafa, Art Teacher The workshop was planned by Kate Scarlet Head of the Inclusion department in collaboration with Gill Montalto of PwC. DT Department Year 10 GCSE visit to Made.com As part of their DT enrichment my Year 10 GCSE pupils visited Made.com, the hugely successful and entrepreneurial furniture designer and manufacturer, in its Charing Cross Road showroom. Our boys met two of Made.com’s designers who presented examples of their work and explained how an idea is conceived and taken through to the manufacturing process. We discussed our GCSE projects, storage solutions based on various design movements from the past 100 years, and where we could draw influence from to create innovative and original designs. The products that were on display were photographed, sketched and analysed, and lots of printed literature was collected by the pupils to include in their research. Who knows; perhaps we’ll be buying some of our students’ ideas in a high street shop soon. Mr M Grant-Hudson, DT Teacher 14 Westminster City School Newsletter Edition 020 September 2015
Enrichment Week Holocaust Lecture & Workshop On Tuesday 15 July, Holocaust survivor Joan Salter came in to talk to the whole of Year 8 about her experiences during World War Two and after the war. The boys had had a series of sessions about the Holocaust in the morning, run by the history department and the Holocaust Educational Trust. In the afternoon they heard about how Joan’s father escaped the Nazis twice and how Joan was separated from her parents at the end of the war, only being reunited with her family in the late 1940s. On Wednesday morning, the boys wrote moving letters to Joan, thanking her for coming in to talk to them. They were especially impressed by the story of Joan’s father jumping out of a train to escape, but all also took away the message that discrimination or persecution need to be stamped out at any level. STEM Careers Event Pupil VOICE Ms L Paxman, History Teacher Charitable Activity Careers Event at UCL On Wednesday 15 July we went to University College London to take part in a science, technology and maths (STEM) careers event. We were joined by other schools including St Augustine’s and Oasis. The day began with a talk by a physicist who studies light and conducts experiments with the world’s most powerful laser. We were then given the chance use a computer software programme called Crumble which is able to program LED lights to flash in a certain pattern. We also made a water filter to clean water in a scenario set by the education outreach group Engineers without Borders. Finally, we interviewed various men and women who worked in science and engineering to gain insights into various career options. Ioan Crabb 8H Nepal Earthquake Disaster We’ve raised an overwhelming £1,234 Our sponsored silence raised £1,273.48 which will go a small way to help the Nepalese people rebuild their lives. Thank you to all parents and family friends who sponsored the boys in their charitable endeavour. Well done to all the Year 7, 8 & 9 pupils who took part. Miss K World, Head of Learning Year 7 £1273.48 wcsch.com Westminster City School Newsletter 15
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