Pupils from Y10 travelled to Hugh Baird College to take part in a medical careers day on Wednesday. The pupils were greeted by the two current medical students who talked to them about how to apply for medicine, how to prepare personal statements and what to expect from university. The students were at different stages in their careers and at different universities. The pupils were then placed into teams of four with pupils from other schools across Merseyside and took part in four different sessions; medical ethics, anatomy, diagnostics and emergency medicine. These sessions were also run by current medical students. The final part of the day was a question and answer session where pupils could ask any question of the medical students and also two doctors at different stages of their career.
Miss Shaw
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Y7 and Y8 Wilton Scholars were given a masterclass in Creative Writing on Tuesday with accomplished author Virginia Clay. Virgina, author of ‘Warrior Boy’, specialises in writing stories from other cultures. In 2010, Virgina moved from the Lake District to Kenya. Although trained as an actor and singer, she retrained to become a teacher in 2012 and began teaching in Nairobi. It was using her experience of life in Kenya that formed the basis of her first book. Warrior Boy is a children’s novel about London schoolboy Ben, who travels to Kenya to meet his Maasai family for the first time but discovers more about himself than he ever imagined possible.
Using extracts of her book, Virginia asked pupils to focus upon the inner conflicts within their characters, establishing the goals and the individual flaws that define people as individuals. The students were taught how to create, develop and exploit these internal conflicts to enhance their own future story writing.
Mrs Doran
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