Thought of the week: As it is Valentine’s Day this week, tell
someone that you love them. Don’t assume that people know you love them!
Joke of the Week:
I dreamt I was forced to eat a giant marshmallow. When I woke up, my pillow was gone.
On this day:
On this day in 1633, Italian philosopher, astronomer and
mathematician Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome to face charges of
heresy for advocating Copernican theory, which holds that the
Earth revolves around the Sun. Galileo officially faced the Roman
Inquisition in April of that same year and agreed to plead guilty
in exchange for a lighter sentence. Put under house arrest
indefinitely by Pope Urban VIII, Galileo spent the rest of his days
at his villa in Arcetri, near Florence, before dying on January 8,
1642.
Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/galileo-in-rome-for-inquisition
Y12 Trial Exams wb 27.02.17
Please ensure you take home a copy of the timetable, given out in form. If you have a clash
you MUST speak to the exams office about rearranging it. Y12 students will be off timetable
for these exams. Y13 and Y14 students taking AS subjects need to attend the exam, but
must continue to attend their other classes as normal.
Exam Stress
This has been rescheduled to this week: A session for Y12 and Y13 which will help you
understand your brain and provide you with useful strategies to manage exam stress. Feel
free to bring your lunch.
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Techniques to manage stress Wed 15.02.17 12.40 Main Hall
HALF TERM NEXT WEEK! And remember
there is an INSET day on Friday 17.02.17
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History Lunchtime Lecture by Lecturer at Sheffield University. 12.40 in the New Hall
on Thursday 16th February.
“Why has Donald Trump risen to power?
Brilliant Careers opportunities are available on Show My
Homework. Please ensure that you are checking this – Mrs
Bensa is posting new stuff everyday instead of putting it in
register folders. You could be missing out on something
amazing!
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Date change:
‘Hungry Britain’, part of the Humanities Lecture series, has been rescheduled
to Thursday 2nd March – Lunchtime in the New Hall.
Please return your NCS forms to Mrs Peacock
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Sixth form- Science Seminar Series.
Spring Half term schedule- Lunch time in the New Hall
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Gene expression and neurodegeneration: a translational
journey from bench to clinical hopes.
Dr Guillaume Hautbergue, Sheffield Institute for Translational
Neuroscience, University of Sheffield Medical School
(March 9)
Investigating neurodegeneration at the molecular cell level.
Discovering novel RNA processing techniques and using
deep sequencing big data to determine novel mechanisms
behind neurodegeneration.
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Watching molecules move through tissues engineered skin.
Dr David Smith, Department of Biosicence and Chemistry, Sheffield Hallam
University
(March 23)
Cells within tissues need to have a coordinated direction (polarity) to enable
organs to form the correct shape and therefore function correctly. We study
protein complexes that regulate this cell polarisation. I will introduce some of the
advanced microscope imaging and computational modelling techniques we
use in our research.