Academic Extension Calendar

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1 Strathallan School Academic Extension Calendar Initiatives, visits and events beyond the regular curriculum ART Open Studio Evenings (Tuesdays and Thursdays) A Level Master classes University Portfolio Development Workshops (Autumn/Spring) Friends of the RSA Competition (January) Botanical Gardens Edinburgh IV Form Natural Forms Project (April) VI Form Venice Trip (7 10 th February) Tesco Art Award (June) Biology Three Day Field course to Millport UVI (April) Biology Olympiad (National competition) VI Form Biology Challenge (National competition) III Form Dundee University Department of Psychology trip UVI (January ) Chemistry Chemistry Olympiad 2014 VI Form (February) Sixth Form Chemistry Lecture (March) Classics Rome Trip UVI Classical Civilisation and V Latin (18 th 21 st October) Computing Glasgow Science Centre trip V Form (March) Improve your Programming evening activity by request or invitation. Design Technology Arkwright Scholarship member school

2 Highland Spring VI Form factory visit (January) Landrover Jaguar VI Form factory visit (March) DT club for III and IV Form Bloodhound Landspeed Project (June) Riley Curriculum Days Economics & Business Studies Young Enterprise (Autumn and Spring Terms) Business Lunches local business people address different business classes (termly) Scottish Economic Society VI Form Conference (November) Institute of Economic Affairs VI Form Conference (November) English Macbeth IV Form trip to Perth Playhouse (October) Frankenstein VI Form trip to see live streamed National Theatre production (i) (November) Frankenstein VI Form trip to see live streamed National Theatre production (ii) (February) Paired Reading (all year) Garry Rodgers Creative Writing Prize Forms IV VI (20 th March) Form III Creative Writing Competition (24 th May) Riley Curriculum Days Stratford Trip (April) Geography Climate Change, Glacier Decline and Water Resources, VI Form lecture: Professor David N. Collins, Associate Head of School International, Environment & Life Sciences, The Alpine Glacier Project, Universities of Salford, Oxford & Manchester ( Friday 4th October) Life in the death zone: the ascent of Everest VI Form lecture: Mr Russell D. Lamb LLB, City Lawyer, London (Friday 1st November) Royal Geographical Society (Scotland) Young Geographer of the Year Competition. Globalisation: a physical geography perspective, VI Form lecture: Professor Nicholas J. Clifford, Head of Department, School of Geography, King's College, London. (Friday 7th March) Landscape change in a Physical, Urban & Cultural Context Glasgow, Perth & Cumbria Field Investigations

3 History Lessons from Auschwitz trip and seminars (18 th and 24th September and 6 th October) II Form Mary Queen of Scots Exhibition National museum of Scotland ( 14 th October) Toil and Trouble Witches Lunch Riley II Form (31 st October) Higher History Conference Stewart s Melville College (7 th November) Downfall and Das Leben der Anderen History Society Film Nights (7 th and 19 th November) The British Raj and the development of Indian Nationalism, LVI lecture: Dr. Chandrika Kaul, The University of St Andrews (22nd November) Witchcraft trip to Dunning II Form (November) 1JJ 1J Victorian Lesson (March) Holocaust memorial day (27 th January) War Horse III Form theatre trip, (28 th January) Goodbye Lenin and The Wave History Society Film Nights (29 th January and 5 th March) GCSE Trip Munich (7 10 th February) The Great Gatsby America Boom and Bust V Form controlled assessment film night (Wednesday 19 th February) The Role of Slavery as a Cause of the American Civil War and Reconstruction: Did the North transform the South post Civil War? UVI lecture: Dr Simon Henderson, The University of Newcastle (20 th February) Lincoln UVI A2 Film Night ( 28 th February) Richard the Lionheart and Saladin LVI Higher lecture: Prof Matthew Strickland, University of Glasgow ( 15 th March) Life in the Trenches day, III Form (15 th March) Modern Studies trip to the Scottish Parliament date tbc LVI AS History Guest Speaker tbc VI Form themed Empire dinner (fancy dress and quizzes) tbc Riley Curriculum day (May) 700 th Anniversary Bannockburn trip (tbc) History Society Film Nights (April and May tbc) Mathematics Enterprising Maths Competition at George Watson s (September) UKMT Junior Competition (April) UKMT Senior Competition (October) UKMT Senior Competition National Finals, London (February) Weekly squad training session for all those mathematicians that might be in teams run by VI Form mathematicians

4 UKMT individual competitions (sat under exam conditions; multiple choice) Scottish Maths Council "Maths Challenge" (September and January). MFL LVI Five Schools' Conferences Michaelmas Term (Strathallan, Glenalmond, Loretto, Fettes, Merchiston and Stewart Melville). Perth Film Club screen foreign language VI Form (Michaelmas and Lent terms) German Advent Evening dinner and talks LVI (November) Spanish nights (Spring Term) Italian Activity (Weekly) III Form French trip to Antibes (June) Spanish Nights cookery and film (periodically throughout the year) Music Senior Inter House Music Competition (October) Musical Showcase, Perth Concert Hall (November) Promotion of National Youth Choir of Scotland to gifted and talented pupils for audition (from November 2013 for 2014 Choirs) Carols in the City Chapel Choir performance, Perth Cathedral (December) The Lion King whole school visit to West End Touring production in Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre (11 th December) Informal Concert Series, Music Room (November December) Promotion of National Youth Orchestras of Scotland to suitably accomplished pupils for audition (September October) Form Concert Series, Music Room (October April) Riley Informal Concert Series, (September/ November/March/ May) Music Scholars Concerts ( September May) Visits to RSNO/BBCSSO/SCO/concerts and Scottish Opera in Perth Concert Hall/Edinburgh Usher Hall/Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre/Glasgow Royal Concert Hall/Glasgow Theatre Royal V VI Form (September April 2014) Choral Scholars perform weekly, including Christmas and Easter, at Perth Cathedral Riley Inter Divisional Music Competition (February) Perth Competition Festival, St Leonards in the Fields Church, Perth (March) Annie Senior School Musical Production (March) Perth Festival of the Arts (May) Headmaster s Music, Strathallan Chapel (June) Riley Production (June ) Chapel Choir mini tour to sing in Rosslyn Chapel, Edinburgh (tbc March/June)

5 Chanson/Leider concert for singing pupils (tbc Feb/March) Invitational performances (HMC/SCIS Conferences, Scottish Motor Trade Conferences, Weddings, etc.) as directed Physical Education Strength and Conditioning Programme Specific and individually tailored fitness programmes Links with Clubs to enhance performance opportunity Regional and District representation opportunities Involvement in National Programmes Injury Prevention player development (Autumn) Tayside and Fife Coach Education workshops (Autumn/Spring/Summer) Nutrition Talk player development (Spring) 1 st Aid training (Summer) Attend large sporting events eg. rugby and hockey international matches Coaching/volunteering opportunities Umpire/referee opportunities Physics Trip to the Mills Observatory in Dundee (Thursday, 9th January). Fusion energy bringing star power down to Earth, VI Form lecture: Professor Kieran J. Gibson, Deputy Director of the York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, University of York. (Monday 17th February ) British Physics GCSE Challenge ( Friday 7th March) British Physics AS Challenge (Friday 14th March). VI Form Trip to the Falkirk Wheel an Engineering meets Physics outing (Summer)