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‘Technology + Creativity = Magic’Presentation to new students.

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06 THE SCHOOL DAY

07 FEATURE: CURRICULUM

10 COMMENDATIONS

11 BEN SAMUEL [MATHS INTERVENTION]

UPDATES

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We are pleased to announce that Mr Hand has taken up the post of Head of Sixth Form. His door will be open at lunch times on Thursdays if you have any concerns or recommendations (Room 01) or contact domonic.hand@elstreeutc.co.uk

S I X T H F O R MU P D A T E S

If you believe your child is eligable for free school meals then you should have recieved a letter from your local council. If you have not then please contact us at admin@elstreeutc.co.uk so we can help guide you in your childs application. If your child has ever recieved free school meals please get in touch as there may be additional funding available to supposupport your childs education.

E L I G A B L E F O RF R E E S C H O O L M E A L S ?

We invite both students and parents looking to apply for the academic year 2016-2017 to this year’s Open Evening which will be held on the 22nd of October. We will be exhibiting all our courses have to offer from 6pm to 9pm.

O P E N E V E N I N G2 0 1 5

On Friday 18th September Kamil from MOBOs visited the UTC to deliver a graphics design breif.The graphics developed by our students will help to support the MOBO Awards campaign in the lead up to the ceremony in November, likely appearing on na-tional television and in the national press.

P R O J E C T S &P A R T N E R S H I P S: M O B O

The Elstree Force attended the UDO World Champion-ships in Edinburgh this August and placed 8th in the world (Under-18s category). We are very impressed with their progress over the past year, Congratula-tions!

U D O W O R L DC H A M P I O N S H I P S

If any students or parents have any questions about the BTEC qualifications or wish to finalise any decisions regarding coursework, Mr Golds (Head of BTEC) will be available for contact from Monday at tom.golds@elstreeutc.co.uk

B T E CE N Q U I R I E S

Spread the word to all prospective students and parents, Meet staff and explore what our campus has to offer.

Technology + Creativity = Magic

22nd OCTOBER 20156/9PM

OPENEVENINGF O R N E W S T U D E N T S L O O K I N G T O E N R O L L I N T H E A C A D E M I C Y E A R 2 0 1 6 - 17

START OF THE SCHOOL DAY

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Many of our students travel a long way to study at Elstree UTC. We are delighted that our students are so committed to learning and creating with us.

All Students must be in their base groups by 8.45am to register with their tutor. Although assembly does not start until 8.50am, it is essential that students register first.

Both punctuality and dress code are important parts of being professional. Students can be sent home if they attend in inappropriate uniform - which would make a difficult journey to the college worse. We encourage all of our students to be professional, punctual and well presented.

A Message For Parents

Learning Base

Period One

Period Two

Break

Period Three

Period Four

LunchLunch

Period Five

Period Six

Period Seven

08:45 - 09:00

09:00 - 10:00

10:00 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:20

11:20 - 12:20

12:20 - 13:20

13:30 - 14:0013:30 - 14:00

14:00 - 15:00

15:00 - 16:00

16:00 - 17:00

CURRICULUM

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CURRICULUM

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TheThe curriculum at Elstree UTC is informed by our specialism and our mandate to prepare students for the real world context of work and lifelong learning. We spoke to our industry and university partners and asked them what they wanted EUTC students to gain from their time here. Some of our partners talked about practical skills, some spoke of confidence and problemproblem solving, many said a collaborative approach and nearly all said creativity.

Last year, a curriculum planning group of EUTC staff met to discuss this feedback and to research changes in national and international education and industry and to think about and plan for what our curriculum offer needs to deliver. It needs to be internationally relevant, it needs to meet the needs of our industry partners and it needs to be engaging and appealing to our studentour students.

We distilled our findings into the following vision statement: The curriculum at Elstree UTC must inspire, resource and empower students to become creative professionals who are culturally competent and technically capable.

So how do we go about achieving that? Firstly we must start with the core subjects.

CCultural competence is dependent on the ability to understand and interpret; to analyse and criticise. This starts with our communications faculty and subjects like English and Film Studies but all subjects teach students how to read texts and make insightful critiques; how to look for hidden meanings and infer truth. Maths and Science teach students the fundamentalfundamental building blocks of the natural order. The theory and philosophy necessary to have ideas that have value and think about things conceptually and then communicate confidently starts with these essential core subjects. As of this year, key stage 4 students will study Maths, Science, English and Literature for 14 hours per week.

C A P A B L E, C U L T U R E D, C R E A T I V E.Technical capability comes from practice. Making and creating and using equipment. Practical courses are essential here at Elstree UTC. Students are able to choose 4 subjects and we encourage a mix of arts and technicals such as Computer Science, Media Arts, Lighting Technology, Photography, Costume Design, Graphics, Sound Technology and Theatrical Makeup. WeWe are lucky to have some industry standard kit and students are able to use professional software and hardware to make high quality productions. Our specialist curriculum allows students to gain technical know how which meets the needs of the creative industries we partner. At key stage 4, students study practical option subjects for 12 hours perper week with experienced specialist staff. At post sixteen, students can study these courses for up to 16 hours per week and in their study periods as well.

Creative professionals think around problems and collaborate to find original solutions. As professionals, our students must be punctual and prepared; organised and resilient. Our PSHEE (personal, social, health, enterprise education) programme and our extended projects curriculum exist to provide students with essential life skills and attitudesattitudes such as punctuality, team work and the reflective ability to learn from mistakes. We have workshops available to students 3 times a week where we teach students industry relevant skills. We also have students working on genuine industry production briefs within our in-house media production company. At key stage 4, students work onon 5 hours of extended project based learning and in post 16 there is more opportunity though the extended project qualification (EPQ).

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PRINCIPAL’S COMMENDATIONS

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At Elstree UTC, we strive for standards of work which meet the professional expectations of industry.Congratulations to all students who have put in that extra effort to succeed and accomplish

work which makes them proud.

These are the highest achievement point earners in each year group...Principal's Commendations for a great start to the academic year.

YEAR 10 YEAR 12

YEAR 11 YEAR 13

Adam Wright

Alfie Abel

Harvey Kemp

Barrett Loades

Amber Pankhurst

Ishmael Mtetwa

Chloe Watkins

Kirsty Potts

Hannah Ward

Jennifer Williams

YEAR 11 GCSEPOWER MATHS

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Elstree UTC is proud to present ‘Power Maths’. A number of our year 11 Maths students are being offered a ‘Power Maths’ programme to boost their performance in Maths. Power Maths is an intervention programme led by Mr Ben Samuel and our own maths teaching team. Ben Samuel is a very experienced Maths improvement specialist. His proprogramme of Maths booster sessions sees many students improve by 2 whole grades.

We are running extra maths sessions as follows:

• Monday: 15.00 - 16.00 Mr Kamya, Mr Bailey and Mr Obonyo at EUTC

• Tuesday: 08.00 - 08.45 Mr Kamya at EUTC

• Wednesday: 15.00 - 16.00 Mr Kamya, Mr Bailey and Mr Obonyo at EUTC

• Thursday: 08.00 - 08.45 Mr Samuel at EUTC

• Thursday: 15.00 - 16.00 Mr Samuel at EUTC

• Friday: 08.00 - 08.45 Mr Kamya at EUTC

• Saturday: 09.00 - 11.00 Mr Samuel at the Ark Theatre, Thrift Farm Lane, Borehamwood

E X A MP R E P E R A T I O N

Please encourage your child to comes to all of these sessions to secure the maximum progress in their maths GCSE exam. Maths is a subject greatly improved through repeated practice. If they attend these sessions, they will achieve significantly improved grades for their GCSE.

THIS ISSUE‘Spotlight’ is an Elstree UTC publication and all content within remains its property. The content within is not to be republished under any other author’s name. Sharing and Distribution of the publication is however encouraged.

TheThe Elstree UTC prides itself on the unique skills and professional calibre of its students as reflected in the products of ‘Elstree UTC Productions’ and ‘Studio Way Records EUTC’. The ‘EUTC Design House’ shares the very same values and endeavours to showcase the best in Copywriting, Design, Photography and Online Distribution our students produce.

‘Spotli‘Spotlight’ is collated by our student run Public Relations team - part of the wider Student Council.

Issue 002 - 21st September 2015

Spotlight content is created by Elstree UTC students and staff. This issue features photography by Motti Hollander.

Design by Mr Tegan Adams andThe Estree UTC student design team.