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Latymerians celebrate university offers
Latymerians celebrate university offers

I had meant to post this on the day after it had been posted by Latymer Upper. Much has now changed and Latymer Upper has been in the media relating to a toxic harassment and assault environment. I am hoping the school can move forward in a positive manner, learning from all mistakes that have been made.

Congratulations to our Year 13 student, Ariana, who has secured a place on the prestigious Huntsman Programme at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Huntsman Programme in International Studies & Business is a unique undergraduate dual degree programme in language, the liberal arts and business, jointly administered between the Wharton School and the College of Arts and Sciences at UPenn. It supports the development of globally-minded scholars who go on to become leaders in a wide variety of sectors. Just 50 students are enrolled on this extremely selective programme each year from the many thousands who apply. Ariana is the first Latymerian ever to win a place on this programme and we are incredibly proud of her achievement.

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Attain: Reforming GCSE
Attain: Reforming GCSE

Reform to GCSE is nothing new. Educators have been calling for changes for some time but the pandemic has not only increased the desire to look at things in a new light but also shown how quickly changes can happen.

For Sarah Fletcher, High Mistress of St Paul's Girls' School in London, GCSEs have simply not kept up with the pace of change in the last thirty years. "I think the fundamental problem is that the world is now very different to the one that existed back in the 1980s."

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The Times: Toby Lee, the 16-year-old being called a guitar legend
The Times: Toby Lee, the 16-year-old being called a guitar legend

It’s not easy being a teenager in 2021. It could even give you the blues. What it rarely does, however, is make you want to play the blues, the musical style that emerged from black communities in the American south at the turn of the 20th century and went on to form the foundation of 1960s and 1970s rock. Toby Lee, a 16-year-old from Oxfordshire who has been celebrated by such greats as Buddy Guy and Joe Bonamassa as the best blues guitarist of his generation, is a rare exception.

“I’m going to be honest: I’m quite a nerd,” Toby says, actually looking quite stylish in a flat cap and patterned shirt as he speaks from his parents’ living room in Oxfordshire, a custom-built Gibson335 electric guitar leaning on the wall behind him. “If I’m not playing guitar, I’m taking a guitar or a pedal apart to figure out how it works. I have a mechanical mind and I’m into things my friends aren’t into, but I quite like that. It’s something different to talk about.”

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The Guardian: Pitch perfect: the UK children's choirs finding ways to connect in lockdown
The Guardian: Pitch perfect: the UK children's choirs finding ways to connect in lockdown

Eight-year-old Emily Grills was looking forward to turning singing teacher this month, drilling her parents on the songs she has been singing with her children’s choir in Bristol.

“Lockdown has been lonely,” she said. “But singing makes me happy and so teaching my parents to sing means we can do it together even when it’s not my lesson time – although my mummy doesn’t sing very well yet.”

Encouraging even their youngest members, such as Emily, to become “singing ambassadors” who help plan and lead lessons, is just one of the new and positive ways that the pandemic has forced Bristol Beacon choir to innovate.

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The Guardian: Coronaangst ridden? Overzoomed? Covid inspires 1,200 new German words
The Guardian: Coronaangst ridden? Overzoomed? Covid inspires 1,200 new German words

Linguist who compiled list of words says they help tell story of life during pandemic.

From coronamüde (tired of Covid-19) to Coronafrisur (corona hairstyle), a German project is documenting the huge number of new words coined in the last year as the language races to keep up with lives radically changed by the pandemic.

The list, compiled by the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, an organisation that documents German language in the past and present, already comprises more than 1,200 new German words – many more than the 200 seen in an average year.

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The Guardian: Covid hits exam-taking and poorer pupils worst, study finds
The Guardian: Covid hits exam-taking and poorer pupils worst, study finds

Survey of students in England reveals huge disparities in effects of lockdown and school closures.

Children studying for exams and those from disadvantaged families are the most likely to have suffered severe disruption to their learning and motivation during the pandemic, according to the largest published study of its impact on pupils in England.

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The Times: Sacked Eton master Will Knowland faces lifetime ban from schools
The Times: Sacked Eton master Will Knowland faces lifetime ban from schools

The teacher dismissed from Eton over an anti-feminist video could be banned from teaching permanently after the school referred him to the watchdog.

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The Times: Manners makyth a girl too, says Winchester College head
The Times: Manners makyth a girl too, says Winchester College head

Since its beginnings in 1382 Winchester College has been guided by the motto “Manners Makyth Man”. But more than 600 years after it was founded by William of Wykeham to teach 70 “poor and needy scholars”, Britain’s oldest public school will open its doors to sixth-form girls.

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The Times: ‘Generation Covid’ tag risks blighting resilient children
The Times: ‘Generation Covid’ tag risks blighting resilient children

A leading head teacher has said that labelling children the Covid generation is “catastrophising” and blighting them.

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The Times: Tencent: Tech giant backed by Beijing funded Cambridge research
The Times: Tencent: Tech giant backed by Beijing funded Cambridge research

Cambridge University received a “generous gift” from a Chinese software company with links to the communist regime to fund an engineering fellowship, The Times has learnt.

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UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge Grade Boundaries (over the last 24 years) - IMC
UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge Grade Boundaries (over the last 24 years) - IMC

For those parents whose children sat the UMKT Intermediate Maths Challenge from the 1st - 4th February, I’ve pulled together the last 24 years of grade boundaries. Going forward, you’ll be able to find yearly updated boundaries on my website Grade Boundaries

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Charity, Education, Exam Results, Maths, Lockdown, Pandemic, STEAM, STEMSarah NorrisLando EducationUKMT, Lando, Lando Education, IMC, Intermediate Maths Challenge, grade boundaries, bonus roundsComment
The Times: Royal Springboard scheme gives private school places to pupils in care
The Times: Royal Springboard scheme gives private school places to pupils in care

Children from troubled backgrounds will win places at prestigious private schools as part of a government-backed scheme aimed at transforming their life chances.

About £200,000 of public money is being given to a charity that helps match vulnerable children and those in care with top independent schools.

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The Times: The world’s finest maths brains By Monique Rivalland
The Times: The world’s finest maths brains By Monique Rivalland

Grigori Perelman, 54

Alex Gerko, 41

Demis Hassabis, 44

Terence Tao, 45

Sir Martin Hairer, 45

Alexandra Botez, 25

Wang Pok Lo, 16

Sir Roger Penrose, 89

Jim Simons, 83

Hou Yifan, 26

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The Times: INTERVIEW - Meet Milo Beckman, the whizz-kid making maths supercool
The Times: INTERVIEW - Meet Milo Beckman, the whizz-kid making maths supercool

Milo Beckman was studying advanced algebra when he was 8. By 15, he was a Harvard prodigy. Now aged just 25, he’s written a brilliant book that takes everything we know (and fear) about maths out of the equation – starting with numbers.

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Evening Standard: Languages mustn’t become the preserve of the rich
Evening Standard: Languages mustn’t become the preserve of the rich

In Junior School, my daughter was introduced to: French, Spanish, German and Mandarin. In year 7, she was taught how to learn any language and spent a term learning: German, Russian and Mandarin. In year 8, she’s now being taught: Latin, German and Italian.

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The Times: Nicola Benedetti frustrated by music education
The Times: Nicola Benedetti frustrated by music education

Both my husband and I were asked to leave recorder club at our primary schools. I was even asked to mime in a concert. My problem - I didn’t practice. Not sure if that’s because I always forgot or because my mother didn’t remind me. She wasn’t big on helping me with anything to do with school. My husband on the other hand, is musical and spent 20 years as a Sound Engineer and Producer, before switching careers.

Our daughter is very musical, although she’s also not big on practicing. She was very lucky and managed to be offered a 3 year plac, on the Royal Academy of Music’s First String Experience course. She made it to grade 5 violin (then gave up to work more on her ballet), grade 4 piano, grade 3 recorder and is now just beginning grade 5 flute (her only weekly lesson instrument now). She’s spent lockdown teaching herself to play her guitar (Rolling Stones, A Star is Born soundtrack and random Siri inspired tracks), learning how to use GarageBand and back to playing her piano.

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The Times: University students ditch arts degrees and opt for medicine
The Times: University students ditch arts degrees and opt for medicine

New medical schools have opened, allowing 12,000 students to start medical degrees last autumn

The arts degree is in steady decline as medicine, computing and engineering soar in popularity, university entry figures show today.

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Arts, Education, Exam Results, Higher Education, Medicine, Media Article, Science, STEAM, STEMSarah NorrisLando EducationLando Education, Lando, medicine, medical schools, further education, university, medical degrees, degrees, art degrees, STEM, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, The TimesComment
The Guardian: Firm in 'unacceptable' school meals row to pay for half-term provision
The Guardian: Firm in 'unacceptable' school meals row to pay for half-term provision

Compass apologises for poor quality of some UK food delivery parcels criticised by Marcus Rashford

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