The Learning PAD focuses on Holocaust Memorial Day 27th January 2012. Students were given the chance today to learn about WW2 Holocaust and the life of Anne Frank. Through new learning technologies students were able to watch and listen to documentaries, clips and interviews in our much improved Learning PAD. Resources were available for all visitors to the PAD from informative bookmarks to magazines and books along with Macs and DVDs.
Staff from The Birmingham Big Issue (Summer Lane) gave up their time to talked to our year 10 BSS students yesterday. Business and Social Science are major factors within the Big Issue organisation which offers a self-help option to homeless people who wish to secure an income through selling the Big Issue magazine. Support offered to vendors includes informal advice and signposting on welfare benefits, housing and other issues around homelessness.
Two speakers from the Birmingham based centre explained the nature of vendors selling magazines out on the streets, how vendors are treated by the public which can be good and also very badly. Students learned how the Big Issue operates, how the company started and the impact this business has on people, supporting them socially and psychologically.
Cockshut Hill’s former (learning resource centre) Library has changed. After under going a makeover before Christmas we now say hello to ‘The Learning PAD’! It is now OPEN for students. You will find ‘The Learning PAD’ a more comfortable place to learn, study and research, focusing on independent areas where distractions are minimal. Fresh new displays along with new soft furnishings make The PAD an inviting space to sit down with a good book… Please respect ‘The Learning PAD’ in a professional manner.
Community Christmas Hampers have been delivered for the second year running with huge donations from the school community. On December 14th 30 of our students set off in our mini busses full of festive cheer and goodies, a massive 65 hampers were decorated and filled.
On Tuesday 13th December our students hosted Cockshut Hill’s first Christmas party for 30 OAP’s.
Elderly members of the local community were invited for two hours of Christmas entertainment along with some beautiful foods, which our food technology group worked endlessly all week preparing and cooking, excellent cuisine! The guests had a lovely party and were very touched with the effort that had been put in. Thank you for the great entertainment from many of our talented musicians. Each guest left with a homemade gift and I’m sure, with a warm Christmas feeling inside.
Big Sing 2011 – Thank you to everyone who took part on Friday 9th December, a fantastic event enjoyed by both staff and students. Well done to Mr Redding who raised the most sponsor money who then entertained us with his rendition of ‘Spirit in the Sky’ armed with his Guitar! This years winners were Laura (Y9) singing ‘Someone like you’ in the first half then Rhiannon and Bethany (Y7) singing ‘Baby’ in the second half. All the money raised will go to our College charities. WATCH THE VIDEO
Students from the choir and African drumming group represented the college by performing in the foyer at Heartlands Hospital on Tuesday 6th December, entertaining patients and visitors bringing festive cheer!
For many, it was their first public performance, ‘well done’ to all the students involved (Year 7, 8 & 10)
Those gathered for the Birmingham Mail’s Local Heroes 2011 Awards were brought to tears as they heard the winners’ stories of bravery, selflessness and heroism.
Matthew Akanbi one of our 6th Formers here at Cockshut Hill was part of a team of Good Samaritans, who formed The Birmingham Riots Clean Up Group in a bid to return the city’s streets to normality following the debacle.
Also amongst those awarded was Harry Moseley, the Sheldon youngster who died last month after a four-year battle with an inoperable brain tumour.
While he was alive, the selfless youngster raised more than £500,000 for cancer charities by making and selling bracelets, as well as giving talks about his illness.
His dad Darren, sister Danielle and brother Louie (Cockshut Hill students) attended the ceremony yesterday, held at The Novotel in the city centre’s Broad Street, and picked up the gong in his memory.
Trying to fight back tears, Danielle, 17, said: “Words can’t describe what my family are feeling now, but Harry always wanted Birmingham to back him. When we found out about this award he was in a coma, but I know he heard us tell him that his city was honouring him.
Dedicated Media students visited Derby Quad for an inspirational viewing of ‘Let Me In’ as part of National Schools Film Week – associated with BFI http://www.nationalschoolsfilmweek.org/ who aim to ENGAGE, EMPOWER and EXPLORE.
The students met a chief examiner from the BBFC, who award certification to film and video games, to discuss the content of this unique masterpiece challenges the issues of bullying while pushing the boundaries of the vampire genre.
Students are now working on a film review which will be entered for the prestigious competition; the Young Critic Award, where students demonstrate ‘a critical responses, as well as their writing or presentation skills’. The winning entry will be invited to attend a glitzy awards ceremony at BAFTA in central London.
The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, is in Britain to meet David Cameron following France's decision to speed up the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan. […]
BSS students yesterday. Business and Social Science are major factors within the Big Issue organisation which offers a self-help option to homeless people who wish to secure an income through selling the Big Issue magazine. Support offered to vendors includes informal advice and signposting on welfare benefits, housing and other issues around homelessness.
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