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Level 1 Sports and Public Services and Level 2 Public Services students took part in a day expedition at the grounds of New River Sports Centre, as a requirement of their course.

The level 3 BTEC year 1 group had an amazing experience at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. The day consisted of a detailed tour of the beautiful historic building, an entry into the public gallery of the House of Commons where students enjoyed a debate by the Commons on the issues around the Gaza border, followed by an interactive ‘representation and voting’ workshop which ended the day.

Haringey Sixth Form College is delighted to announce the appointment of vastly experienced Haringey Hawks Basketball Coach Franck Batimba as Head Coach of the Basketball academy and Academic Support Mentor, ahead of the 2018-19 academic year.

We are exceptionally proud of our A Level art students Olivia Pittas and Yasmin Mohammed for being offered places to study at Camberwell School of Art and Central Saint Martins on their one year Art Foundation courses.

Following on from our CERN trip last summer, our students were involved with more particle physics this year with their visit at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford where they had the privilege to spend a whole day.

The Level 2 Sport group organised a series of competitive sport events to raise money for Sport Relief 2018. In all of the sports, there was staff representation, and the students enjoyed the opportunity to compete against their teachers and support staff. The students were organising the event as part of one of the units on the course; Unit 11: Running a Sports Event.

This years A Level Fine Art exam paper theme is ‘Freedom and/or Limitations’, an important aspect of Art study is the development of ideas and the gathering of ‘primary’ research material, we decided to head to Brighton City & Seaside. Within the exam theme there are lots of possible ‘sub themes’ for example a student may choose to focus on freedom to travel, math & geometry in design, homelessness and poverty.

Within the Health and Social Care department we are extending our relationship with the Alzheimer’s Society to work on a project with residents in the Hornsey Housing Trust. Students from our B90 Health and Social Care cohort will be attending the trust once a month as volunteers to take part in an intergenerational project being launched.

Last year, Nick Hayes came to participate in our end of year literary/dance festival and show with WeMove dance, gave workshops during the day and then performed in our show.

It was a fantastic day at the London Office of one of Europe’s large Corporate and Investment Bank, Societe Generale. The students mainly from BTEC Business and ICT, were joined by A2 students, Salman Adam and Faeeq (Faizal) Mohamed to attend the One-day Employability Workshop organised by The Brokerage Citylink.