NEWVIC NEWS
Latest information, news, and advice from Newham Sixth Form College.
Welcome to the latest edition of the NewVIc News.
Interviews for starting in September 2019 are well underway with many students receiving conditional offers, courses are filling up fast!
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If you still haven't completed your application, please apply online to ensure your application is processed as soon as possible.
For any questions or advice about interviews or recruitment, please email us: advice@newvic.ac.uk
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RAISING FOR RALEIGH
Students sell out Nrich Showcase event.
Earlier this month NewVIc's Enrichment Showcase: Future Identities was a huge success and sold out with a full house. All the sales from the event will go towards students expedition volunteering trip to Nepal with Raleigh International. NewVIc's dance company NDC closed the evening with a street dance performance.
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MAKE FRIENDS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Travel and Tourism students visit Dubai.
From the dizzying heights of the Burg Kalifa to camel riding in the Dubai desert. NewVIc Travel and Tourism students share their Emirati experiences.
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NEWHAM WORD FEST
NewVIc Poetry Night welcomes special guests.
Last month we opened our doors to the community to celebrate words: spoken, imagined, manipulated, devised and written. The free event featured performances from highly regarded poets, artists, musicians and special guests including Theresa Lola, Penny Pepper, Newham's Community Opera.
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UNIQUE COURSES FOR THE TECHNICALLY TALENTED
Higher professional programmes for higher skilled careers.
Kick start your career with intensive industry placements and advanced progression direct to employment, higher degree apprenticeships or university.
Professional Level 3 Extended Diplomas available in:
- Business
- Construction
- Engineering
- ICT
- Sports
- Travel and Tourism
- Health and Education
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FLY THE FLAG
National project with the Donmar Warehouse.
NewVIc students are participating in a national public art project co-produced by Amnesty International, Donmar Warehouse, Fuel, Liberty, Human Rights Watch, the National Theatre, Sadler’s Wells and the Tate Gallery.
To mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Donmar Warehouse in partnership with arts organisations and human rights charities across the UK have commissioned artist Ai Weiwei to create a flag to celebrate universal human rights.
Our students are working with a leading writer from the Donmar Warehouse on a 6-month project to create new work inspired by Ai Weiwei’s flag, to be shared online as short films and performed in 5 public spaces across London. Watch this space!
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MEET OUR EXPERTS
1790 - A poem by Simon Birchall.
Simon Birchall is a Poet, Teacher and Programme Manager for English at NewVIc.
This is a poem I wrote for my uncle, the most inspiring person I ever met and a devotee of the symphonies of Franz Josef Haydn.
Enjoying the soundtrack through
technology you could never have imagined.
I like to imagine you strolling through what is
now the opera house at Coventgarden,
down to the river. Bewigged, breeches and dressed
at the height of elegant fashion.
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LIVES OVER KNIVES
NewVIc makes a stand against knife crime.
Last month, NewVIc hosted their annual anti-knife crime event – ‘Life not Knife’. Students were invited to take part in activities and workshops with special guests including Local MPs, The British Red Cross, Trident Central Gangs Unit, a lead Trauma Nurse from The Royal London Hospital and a Self Defence Expert.
MPs were also been invited to take part in Q&A sessions with students to find out more about what the government can do regarding this issue and hear how students are affected by this issue.
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PRINCIPAL'S COLUMN
We all have a duty to combat knife crime.
Every morning, new headlines about stabbings involving young people fill me with sadness, disgust, and fear. Sadness for the people who have lost a loved one, disgust that a person can commit such a violent act against another human being and fear as I have two young children and I keep thinking are they safe? What should I do to make them safer?
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HE FAIR
Alumni advise students on university options.
As part of our careers week, universities from across the country came to take part in our annual HE Fair to provide students with information and advice about studying at university.
It was great to welcome back some familiar faces Sadiyah and Nadiyah - NewVIc alumni students, who came to talk about studying at the University of Cumbria where both girls are currently studying BA Honours in Education Studies.
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THINK SMART ABOUT YOUR CAREER
Digital jobs in demand for the future.
Computer programming skills are the most sought after area of expertise in the UK with online gaming, retail websites, more digital apps and the latest devices booming in the industry. From cloud computing to artificial intelligence, software engineers are in high demand for the future.
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BRITISH BIOLOGY OLYMPIAD
Students highly commended in international competition.
Huge congratulations to Charlie Scherer and Melissa Bheekha for achieving ‘Highly Commended’ in the Biology Olympiad 2019. This is an international competition which encourages students to continue studying the biosciences beyond what they learn in class and is extremely challenging.
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BE INSPIRED
Ex-student Danielle in BBC Drama Series: A Windrush Chronicle.
Danielle is an actress and model, most famous for her role in 2011 comic alien-invasion movie, Attack the Block. Danielle recently starred as Eunice in Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle, aired on BBC4 in last month. At NewVIc Danielle studied a National Diploma in Performing Arts and a Level 3 Media Production.
Danielle's monologue is the first in the series, watch a snippet of her in action in the link below.
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HONOURS LECTURE
Students learn the history of SUS laws with Professors from King's College.
As part of our honours lecture series with King's College, this week students learned about the history of Britain's stop and search laws. PhD student Patrice Etienne and Dr Chris Dillon led the session which included spoken word and poetry performances.
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YOUR ONLINE PRESENCE
The dos and don'ts of social media.
Confused about what is right and wrong? The Internet is an amazing, creative and fun place, however, just think before you post.
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BE INSPIRED
4 weeks in the UK Top 40 for NSG.
NSG enter their 4th week in the UK Top 40 with their track Options (feat. Tion Wayne). NewVIc alumni students Martin and Dennis who are part of group NSG, studied Level 3 Music Technology at NewVIc and graduated in 2015. We are extremely proud of their success and can't wait to hear what they do next.
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NEWVIC: 8 VS. HARROW: 1
Men's 1st team footballers hammer Harrow
NewVIc cruised to emphatic 8-1 victory over Harrow College this week with one league game to spare.
NewVIc had to wait until the 35th-minute to break the deadlock with a penalty, but thereafter the floodgates opened with further strikes.
One quickly became two as Kledian lofted pass picked out Harnak in the area and he wriggled clear of three defenders before firing through the harrow goalkeeper legs.
Three minutes before the break Sagoe superb pass played Harnak into acres of space and the forward clinically added a third to leave harrow needing a Mountain to climb after halftime.
Halftime NewVIc 3-0 Harrow College
NewVIc added their fourth minutes after the break as Abdou evaded the offside trap and crossed for Kledian, who found the back of the net with a devastating first-time finish.
With harrow out on their feet, it was only a matter of time before NewVIc pulled further away with goal number five, Abdou getting in on the act on 71 minutes, stroking it home from an Ali cutback.
Harrow, however, pulled one back from a direct freekick after the NewVIc keeper made a costly error.
Things went from bad to worse for harrow when the defender flicked the goal past his own keeper.
Ousman and took just 14 minutes after coming on to get on the score sheet, taking Brandon’s through pass in his stride before rounding the goalkeeper. Harnak then put the icing on the cake, beating harrow goalkeeper at his near post to seal Newham overwhelming victory!!!
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NEWVIC: 77 VS. RAINES: 103
Basketball Academy finds the going tough against a well-oiled Raines
The NewVIc Basketball Academy ended the league season in a much anticipated final game against Raines Foundation Upper. Having lost the away leg by 30 points back in early January the squad were in need of some inspiration and the support of a home crowd if they were going to turn the tides of fortune.
The squad started strong in the first 4 minutes holding Raines to a level scoreline; however, some lapses in judgment and with an athletic Raines squad taking full advantage of every rebound the NewVIc boys were facing a 10 point deficit by the end of the starting quarter.
In the 2nd and 3rd quarters the NewVIc team held their own with just 3 and 5 point deficits in each quarter respectively, however cumulatively this meant the boys were 18 points down 77 – 59 going into the last 10 minutes.
In basketball, this isn’t an insurmountable target, but it wasn’t to be. When the Raines no. 7 landed a spectacular dunk in the 7th-minute heads dropped, the crowd lost their mojo and the writing was on the wall.
Despite the win, there was once again some stand out performances with Lonuel sinking 12 points in the 1st quarter (27 overall), and Nihat swishing four 3 pointers out of nowhere in the 2nd quarter to equal captain Menelik’s 19 points throughout the game.
After a tough season with a number of coaching changes, new playbooks and new players being added to the squad throughout, the team are now looking forward to the end of season London 3v3 Champs on the 1st May and will now get their heads down so the 8 first-year students ensure they’re back in force next year, and the 3 second-year students achieve the best possible grades to give them long term playing opportunities at university.
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