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GERMANY TRIP- ROOM ALLOCATIONS

Please attend a short meeting on Friday 26th May at 12:45 in ML1 to secure your requests for room allocation on the Germany trip.

Rooms available are as follows: 

Year 8

boys -1 triplet, 1 double

girls -8 doubles                

Year 9   

boys – 2 quads

girls – 3 doubles

Year 10

boys – 5 doubles

girls – 4 triplets        

Please come prepared with the name(s) of student(s) (same gender and Year group as you would like to share with. First come first serve. If you do not get your first choice, do not worry, you will only be in your rooms to sleep and we will have lots of fun! 

Danke,

Frau French

Empowering future NHS workers

VIRTUAL GET INTO NURSING CONFERENCE

Saturday 3rd June 9:30am – 12:30pm

Your students are invited to the virtual Get into Nursing conference, where I’ll provide my insight on how to enter the nursing profession. I will cover crucial topics such as personal statements, applications, interviews, securing work experience, and what it’s truly like to be a nurse.

Get into Nursing conference registration link: https://alliedhealthmentor.org/product/get-into-nursing-conference/

VIRTUAL GET INTO MIDWIFERY CONFERENCE

Saturday 3rd June 2pm – 5pm

Chief Midwife Mentor Tanya will be hosting the Virtual Get into Midwifery Conference, sharing her own experiences as a midwife and offering tailored advice to aspiring midwives on personal statements, applications, interviews, and gaining relevant work experience.

VIRTUAL ALLIED HEALTHCARE WORK EXPERIENCE

Sunday 4th June 10am – 5pm

The next session for the NHS Healthcare Work Experience programme launches on Sunday 4th June! A strong record of work experience is essential for all applications to healthcare careers, including nursing, midwifery, paramedicine, occupational therapy, radiography, and many more!

The NHS interdisciplinary team has a very unique way of operating, so I encourage all students interested in healthcare or working for the NHS to join.

Work Experience registration link: https://alliedhealthmentor.org/product/live-virtual-work-experience-programme/

Students can attend a Get into Nursing or Midwifery Conference AND enrol on the next NHS Healthcare Work Experience session for £15 here: https://alliedhealthmentor.org/product/get-into-conference-and-wex-bundle/

Tickets for each conference are £10, and every work experience session is £10. If students wish to attend a conference and enrol on the work experience session, choosing the bundle above saves £5.

Year 10 GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition

This week our Year 10 GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition students had a go at making meringues. 

The first challenge is to successfully separate the egg yolk and white, which can be a messy process.  Once the students had done this, they then whisked the egg whites to incorporate air and denature the protein in the egg white.  Once the egg whites were stiff, caster sugar was gradually added, which adds sweetness and structure to hold the light, airy, whipped egg white foam.  The meringues were cooked and then decorated with cream, fruit, chocolate and spun sugar to make a nicely presented sweet treat. 

Well done Year 10.  Mrs James.

WARWICKSHIRE COMBINED EVENT CHAMPIONSHIPS DAY 2

Five Southam college students took a trip to Pingles Stadium on Thursday afternoon to compete in the second day of the Warwickshire combined events championships.

All 5 girls represented themselves and the school brilliantly and had a blast on a sunny day as the rain held off! Esme went into day 2 leading the group and demonstrated amazing performances combined with determination to maintain the lead going into the last event where she was able to hold off a rival in the 800m event as she picked up the gold medal at the end of the day. Isabelle put in some outstanding performances, also coming 1st overall with 2864 points and smashing some PBs. Xanthe, Bethan and Tilda competed in the minor girl’s competition and did themselves proud all day with some extremely impressive performances in the 80m sprint, 800m and the long jump but also gave the shot put a real good go! Bethan just missed out on the bronze medal, but everyone contributed to the team coming 5th out of 14 teams.