“All things considered” Performing Arts Talk

Creativity, theatre and politics are not normally words that are placed together within the same profession. However, for Emma Bramley, these define her life. Emma is managing director of a Theatre company called ‘All things considered’, which use applied theatre to try to raise awareness of key issues in society and use this as a medium for challenging the norm and bringing about political and social change.

Talking to a group of Year 9 pupils, Emma spoke about the development of her career and the qualifications she has attained within her chosen field. It was fascinating to listen to the projects she has been involved in over the past few years and why she has found it such a valuable and rewarding career choice. Our thanks to Emma Bramley for such an inspirational talk.

Mrs Doran

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Life Insurance and Coronavirus

Year 10, Year 11 and Year 12 students were invited to attend a fascinating talk this week led by Grace Harrison. Grace is an insurance actuary for Royal London Life Insurance. Her job is to analyse statistical models to calculate projected risk for individuals, including assessing mortality, morbidity and longevity. In the light of COVID, Grace firstly explained the vocabulary surrounded the pandemic, including phrases such as excess deaths and the 'r rate,' then looked at the factors informing the computer modelling currently being used to assess the risk of the pandemic in the UK. She relayed how very small changes in data assumption can have dramatic implications in outcomes for modelling the impact of the coronavirus. The limitations and usefulness of such models were also discussed. As a life insurance actuary, Grace has an interesting perspective and presented some very interesting graphs tracing mortality rates in the UK over the past 40 years.

Mrs Doran

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Sports Day with a Twist

On Wednesday, the secondary phase sports staff organised a mini sports day in the Hub with a twist. Instead of pupils participating in different events between houses, this time it was class bubbles. The safe events that took place included relay, carrying a Rugby tackle tube across the pitch and a skipping race. All events were keenly fought with pupils from each bubble enthusiastically cheering their team on during a sunny afternoon.

Mr Cook

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Year 8 Talk: Life as a Lawyer

Rachel Giles delighted Year 8 pupils interested in careers in Law on Tuesday by delivering a superb talk about careers in law. Rachel firstly explained the fundamental role of law within society and of the vital roles lawyers, barristers, legal executives and paralegals play in upholding these laws. After an explanations of possible routes into law professions including both academic and vocational, Rachel offered extremely valuable advice to pupils about how best to achieve their life goals.  Our sincere thanks to Mrs Giles for giving up her valuable time so generously.

Mrs Doran

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Science and Medicine – Meaningful Interactions

Pupils from Y7, Y8 and Y9 have been participating in a superb event this week called I’m a Scientist, Stay at home. This event connects pupils with real scientists in a variety of different scientific fields - last week was environmental scientists, this week it was scientists from medical backgrounds. Amongst the scientists were those specialising in cancer research, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, genetics, statistical analysis, computer modelling experiments and researchers looking into how fungi can be used as medicines, how protein impact upon health and how bubbles can be used to break the blood brain barrier. Each event welcomed 10 scientists who were available for 40 minutes to chat to pupils about their work, careers and their life as a scientists. Each of these events have been incredibly well attended and the pupil feedback following the events has been superb. Anyone interested in this project, open chats are available to all each day at selected times. Please go to https://imascientist.org.uk/ for more details.

Mrs Doran

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Orthoptics Masterclass

Carly Hegarty zoomed into Liverpool College on Thursday to deliver a video conferenced talk about orthoptics to Year 10 and Year 11 pupils. Carly also explained the various different roles of other Allied Health Care professionals. She explained orthoptics were eye and vision specialists, experts in diagnosing and treating the eye and in the nerves and muscles affecting eye movements, including eye care in neurological conditions. She also explained the ways in which pupils can prevent eye problems from developing including wearing sunglasses to prevent double vision, a healthy diet to prevent glaucoma, reducing alcohol to prevent cataracts and stopping smoking to prevent age related degenerative eye diseases.

All participating pupils were emailed the presentation. Anyone else interested in this field, please email Mrs Doran (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to receive a copy of the PowerPoint.

Mrs Doran

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