Ninestiles News at Nine December 2019
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Year 11—Miss Kaur<br />
This half term:<br />
References are currently being written by form<br />
tutors which will then be sent to college<br />
placements.<br />
Students have started to apply to colleges and<br />
have been given deadlines for grammar school<br />
applic<strong>at</strong>ions which are this side of Christmas and<br />
some in January. All the others will be in January/<br />
February. A handful of our students have already<br />
had successful interviews, demonstr<strong>at</strong>ing their<br />
proactiveness.<br />
Careers Interviews: All of our Year 11s will<br />
eventually have a careers interview with our<br />
careers advisor, Debbie Perry. A significant number<br />
of students have already had their interviews and<br />
have found the inform<strong>at</strong>ion useful.<br />
Prom: we will be booking the venue after<br />
Christmas so all deposits MUST be in by January<br />
10th 2020. We have a Prom Committee; the<br />
members are: Chloe Clarke, Zarah Ahmed, Charlie<br />
Jones, K<strong>at</strong>ie Wilcox, Georgie Ry<strong>at</strong>t, Arooj Shoaib,<br />
Manasveer Kainth, Vaishali Shingadia and Aswin<br />
Kumar.<br />
Our Head Boy, Aswin Kumar, had a talk with an<br />
ex-student, Haroon Irshad, about an amazing<br />
opportunity to join the UK Youth Parliament last<br />
week.<br />
Please note: Year 11s have their PPEs in January so<br />
teachers are preparing them for these; students<br />
have access to revision guides and m<strong>at</strong>erial and a<br />
personal exam timetable has been issued.<br />
Book of the Week<br />
Christmas Stories—Scholastic Classics<br />
A heart-warming collection of<br />
classic Christmas tales. Perfect<br />
for curling up with on a cold<br />
<strong>December</strong> night. Gre<strong>at</strong> festive<br />
traditions brought alive by top<br />
writers.<br />
Gifts, snow, elves, acts of<br />
kindness - all the joy of Christmas, from sleigh<br />
bells to ballet trips, captured by the world’s<br />
gre<strong>at</strong>est authors.<br />
Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan<br />
Doyle, Kenneth Grahame, E. Nesbit, Hans<br />
Christian Andersen and more.<br />
Year 11 Poetry Lectures<br />
All Year 11 students have been invited to <strong>at</strong>tend<br />
university-style poetry lectures in the Hall every<br />
Monday. Lectures have taken an in-depth and<br />
contextualised approach to poetry. There has<br />
been an excellent turnout of students, who all<br />
listened <strong>at</strong>tentively and made diligent notes.<br />
These will continue next half term where we<br />
hope to see as many Year 11 students as<br />
possible.<br />
Monday 13 th January<br />
Monday 20 th January<br />
Monday 27 th January<br />
Monday 3 rd February<br />
Monday 10 th February<br />
Tissue: Mr Bond<br />
Storm on the Island:<br />
Ms Nelson<br />
The Emigree: Ms Price<br />
War Photographer:<br />
Mr Flowerdew<br />
Ozymandias: Mrs Raja
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