Apply for student finance from 14 December

Are you starting a full-time course at university or college?
•Find out what student finance is available to you and apply online now at www.direct.gov.uk/studentfinance
•Remember:
Most students won’t have to pay anything up front. There are student loans to help with tuition fees and living costs.
Repayments are based on future earnings and not what you borrow and you only repay when you have left university and are earning more than £21,000.
Students may also qualify for a government grant, which doesn’t need to be paid back.
•You don’t need to have accepted a place at university or college to apply for student finance. Apply online by 31 May 2012.
•Giving Student Finance England your UK passport number and your parents’ or partner's National Insurance numbers means that, as part of their assessment, SFE can automatically check your identity with the Identity and Passport Service and household income with HM Revenue & Customs, providing your parent or partner has consented to disclosure of their income.
•If SFE do need financial evidence to support your application, they’ll only ask for copies of documents – you don’t need to send in originals.
•If you are disabled or have children or adult dependants, you can apply for non-repayable grants.
•Visit www.direct.gov.uk/studentfinance for more information and to apply. There is also a series of ‘how to’ videos to help you.

Hospitality For The Future

Hospitality For The Future
26th January 2012, 14:00-16:30
Rolle Building, Plymouth University

An insight into the strengths of the hospitality industry; event to include presentations from guest speakers covering a range of topics such as employment, business and career prospects.

For more information and to book your place, contact charlotte.true@plymouth.ac.uk or sheymoy.adams@plymouth.ac.uk

Year 13 Assembly

Reminder - Year 13 Assembly

Wednesday 7th December from 8:40-9, in MC2/3

Mentoring and help with Medical School Careers

Check out the following website if you are considering a medical career:
www.brightjournals.org

UCAS News Year 13

please be aware if you wish your application to be sent before the deadline it must be finished and paid for this week. it will take up to a week to check and send your application once you think it is completed. Please inform your tutor you are ready. Your Tutor will then send the application to the Sixth Form Leadership Team.

Information, Advice & Guidance for students & parents

We believe that the need for careers guidance and advice has never been greater and would like to offer you and parents the opportunity to view this useful website, http://www.parentadviser.co.uk/ . The website's intention is to provide a service to assist parents in giving informed advice and guidance to their young people in addition to that on offer from school or college.

Information today about sixth form lessons

Please check your email to see the staff who are in. If there is a lesson then you must go to it.

Have you been completing your Monday Tutorial tasks?

Please be aware on Wednesday 16 November we will be auditing students Monday tutorial work. If you require further information on the 3 tasks you have to complete please look at your student handbook, ask your tutor for more information or look at the email I have sent you.

Review Day

Please complete your targets before review day. Please talk to your subject teachers/tutor if you are unsure of your target grades or current grades. you MUST complete all of the work found in your student handbook.

Students interested in midwifery

Professor Fraser is Emeritus Professor of Midwifery in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham.  She has an international reputation for her research in midwifery education and as editor of the key textbook for midwives (Myles Textbook for Midwives).  Together with obstetric colleagues in the Faculty she initiated inter-professional clinical skills teaching and assessment between medical and midwifery students to enhance team work in the maternity services. 
 
Professor Fraser is also member of the Nottingham University Medical School Admissions Committee and has been involved in short-listing and interviewing medical student applicants for the last 10 years.

Professor Fraser is providing a lecture and question/answer session for students interested in pursuing a career in Midwifery.
 
This is a free event to be held on Wednesday 9th November, 4pm to 5pm at Devonport high school for Girls main hall.
 
If you are interested in this event then please email me.
  

Year 12 Assembly

Year 12 assembly on volunteering at 840 in MC 2 and 3 on Wednesday 2^nd November.  More info and links here tomorrow.

Info about study skills

Please remember if you have not handed in your work you are not allowed to study at home and must attend college between 840 and 305 or 405 if you have a period 6 lesson.

The research section of your study Skills module was due in on Monday.  Thank you so much to all those who have completed this and handed it in on time.  The essay is due in after Christmas.

Students who have handed the research in may if they wish go home to study when they are not in lessons. 

In the future students will be asked to study in College if:

·         We feel that they are falling behind with their work and would benefit from working in college

·         They have been placed on an intervention at stage 2 or above

·         We feel the research completed is not to a high enough standard

I hope you have benefitted from the study skills module.  Please give me any feedback or suggestions for improvement.

Please remember if you have not handed in your work you are not allowed to study at home and must attend college between 840 and 305 or 405 if you have a period 6 lesson.

Support needed

We need support for each subject on our post 16 open evening on the 23rd November. We need two students for each curiculum area from year 12 or year 13. All who help will receive a home made mince pie with brandy butter... Yum yum.. Let me know if you can help via email or talk to your subject teachers.

Review day coming up

Review Day is almost here Wednesday 9th evening and Thursday 10th day. Please make sure your parents know about this date and that they have received a letter. You need to complete the section "before review day" with your tutor this next week. Remember Thursday period one is a tutor period. Make an appointment with your tutor this week.

A good first half term

So the first post. Hopefully all of the new year 12 students have settled in after the first half term. I think they will agree that the step up to year 12 is a big one. Students should be settled on to their courses and are now unable to drop or change courses. This half term the year 13 students have been given time to consider their next steps after Sixth Form. they have been doing their own research and have been working with tutors to look at their options. students applying for university need to complete their UCAS applications by November 5th. Once these applications are complete staff can then write references. I will check the students applications and then send them off to UCAS. if parents or students need more advice on this then please ask alternatively you could look at www.ucas.com or www.ucas.tv.