Mr Dave Bennett MBE, Assistant Principal, was invited to model high quality Religious Studies (RS) teaching for a recent BBC education news programme. A film crew visited the Academy, filmed an RS lesson and interviewed Mr Bennett in the classroom.
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Bosworth Academy Students Explore Cambridge University
Sixteen high achieving, aspirational Year 13 students have taken part in a workshop to prepare for interviews at Cambridge. They all received coaching on skills and techniques to improve their interview performance. The students involved were extremely positive in their feedback.
Bosworth Academy on Channel 4 News
A group of Year 11 students have taken part in a workshop organised by the University of Leicester Medical School, looking at âConsent in Relationshipsâ. The session was filmed for Channel 4 News and feedback from the workshop organisers about the Academy students was extremely positive.
Richard II: Live
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On Friday 15th November, Post 16 English and Drama students and a group of 50 year 10s and 11s, chosen for their enthusiasm and hard work in English and Drama, had the exciting opportunity to watch a live broadcast of the Royal Shakespeare Companyâs sold out production of Shakespeareâs âRichard IIâ. A play one student referred to as âsomething I had been desperate to seeâ, the production was part of the RSCâs Young Shakespeare Nation program, encouraging young people to appreciate the bardâs impressive portfolio. The play was shown in two locations around the Academy, the Drama Studio and the newly kitted out Compass, both of which were packed out with students waiting to see how David Tennant would portray one of our most controversial of kings. The play tells the story of King Richard II, the son of Edward, the notorious Black Prince, who had brought havoc to France. Charting the events of the last two years of Richardâs life, Shakespeare recounts the story of the usurping of the king at the hands of the âruthlessâ and âmanipulativeâ Bolingbroke, the cousin who would become Henry IV. Through his eloquent speeches and enchanting language, Shakespeare questions the ideas of power, patriotism and the divine rights of kings, thrilling his audience with the dramatic plots and twists which resulted in an ending that drew gasps of shock from staff and students alike. David Tennantâs Richard was described as âexcellentâ, âmind blowingâ and âbetter than Doctor Who!â by students, who were impressed not only by his âepic wigâ, but also by his portrayal of the complicated character. Post 16 students also had the opportunity to submit questions to and watch a live Q&A session after the play with David Tennant and Gregory Dorran, the director. This was âa great experience as we got to hear about how the play was put together and the decisions actors make in performance. Helpful for my coursework.â This unique experience is something that the English and Drama department intend to repeat in 2014, when Henry IV Part 1 will take to the stage and screen, allowing more students to take part in such exciting and literary events.
Miss Kate Brackley |
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Arrangements for the End of Term December 2013
Please click the link below to view a letter regarding the arrangements for the end of term.
Nelson Mandela 1918-2013
We were saddened, with many people around the world, to hear of the death of Nelson Mandela. He was one of the most influential and inspirational political leaders of the last 100 years whose example of forgiveness and reconciliation shine out in a world often blighted by revenge and hatred. Next week during Assemblies we will provide all students at Bosworth the opportunity to stop, reflect on and celebrate the legacy of Nelson Mandela and the many ways that we can learn from his example.
Walk on the Wildside
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Hello, some of you may know that I took part in a charity event âWalk on the Wildsideâ, a 13 mile walk for LOROS. I decided to take part as my granddad sadly passed away from cancer a few years ago and LOROS supported him, offering better quality of life. So I wanted to give something back. Thanks to the generocity of you as my fellow students and teachers, I have managed to raise ÂŁ154.40 for LOROS. This will provide great help for LOROS, which supports people with terminal illness.
I just wanted to say a huge thank you to all who have sponsored me. I couldnât have achieved this without you. Robyn Elms |
CERN: A students view
Recently I had the opportunity to travel to Geneva, Switzerland and visit CERN; the European Centre for Nuclear Research, an establishment renowned and esteemed for its pioneering contributions to the world of science and technology-responsible for the development of the internet and most recently, the discovery of the elusive Higgs Boson particle.
CERN is constituted of a variety of experiments, laboratories and impressive feats of engineering. Itâs most prestigious icon the Large Hadron Collider, a 27 km long elliptical tube buried 100m underground, featuring two high energy proton beams which travel at 99.9991% of the speed of light in opposite directions, eventually colliding at specified points at which the experiments are constructed around.
The scientists at CERN are focussing on various objectives: investigating the nature of dark matter which according to the current theories suggests the existence of a possible 11 dimensions rather than the standard 4 (12 if there are two time dimensions), super gravity and super symmetry particles and also the unexplained reduction of antimatter in the universe. They do this by accelerating particles at the highest speeds, and therefore energies, possible and colliding them to create the conditions just yoctoseconds after the Hot Big Bang â it should be noted here that the speed of light is unreachable due to the exponential increase of mass when approaching the speed light which therefore causes the energy needed to accelerate the mass to reach infinity (infinite energy being an obvious impossibility). The result of these collisions is multiple decays, annihilations and pair production incidents.
With the detector recording over 40 million collisions every second it takes the combined effort of thousands of scientists from all over the globe. Being a source of revolutionary enhancements in the fields of mathematics, computer programming, physics, engineering and cryogenics, CERN is the epitome of human advancement.
Having the chance to speak with the scientists who work there, to see the LHC tunnel and the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN has given me a firmer impression of where I would like to be in the future. It was a fantastic experience and I hope that one day I can return to CERN to study or even work there.
Joseph Aziz
Year 11 AG&T Triple Scientist
Bosworth Academy
KS4 Video
Our students and teachers all pulled together to make this great little film for the recent KS4 Open Evening about Bosworth.
Click the link below to see it, we hope you like it.
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Bosworth Update
Click the link below to download an update from the principal:
Bosworth Update Letter [pdf]