Winter Concert

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Winter Concert. It was a very enjoyable evening with a series of superb performances.

The photos below were taken by Upper Sixth students Hannah Fletcher and Sasha Sokolova.

The photos below were taken by Upper Sixth student, Sasha Sokolova.



Pirates for Pudsey

Many thanks to the swashbuckling staff and students across the College who dressed up as pirates, walked the plank and flew the Jolly Roger . Their fund raising efforts raised nearly £400 for Children in Need.

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Young Enterprise

This year's Young Enterprise team (featured above in a meeting) is now up and running and many thanks to our business advisers Clara Lasala and David Compte. The company has decided to sell hand-made bracelets as one of the team has some experience of producing this type of product already. Thinking globally the team are importing materials from China and Vietnam to keep costs down and assembling and selling locally. The team include: Malika- Managing Director Miri- Financial Director Chris, Anh and Alice- Marketing and Sales Charley- Human Resources Lily, Sai and Xiaoli - Operations We wish them all the best in the busy selling period before Christmas.

Crossing the river

Many thanks to Robin Tucker who came in recently to talk to our Sixth Form Business Studies students about marketing strategy. Robin is presently working with New World consultants after 19 years prior experience in senior strategy, commercial and marketing roles including 9 years at Vodafone.

Robin discussed a number of important aspects of strategic marketing not least the importance of "crossing the river" to see and understand how your customers perceive what you are doing. He also showed the importance of research and the need to identify the segments that generate the most value for the business.  He highlighted some key concepts with reference to his time at Vodafone and some more recent projects in the equine and payroll sectors.

This talk was one of series of workshops organised by the Business Studies department involving parents to help students apply their understanding of business to real life situations.

Photography by Sasha Sokolova

We thought you might like to see some of the work of Sasha Soklova, one of our Upper Sixth Photography students:

Winter Concert

This year’s Sixth Form Winter Concert will take place at the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford on Tuesday 27th November at 7.30pm.

One of the highlights of the Sixth Form calendar, the concert will feature a wide range of performances, from classical music to rock & pop, drama and dance, not only from those students studying A level Music and Drama, but also those who participate in the performing arts outside their academic programme. Please do come and support our performers at what promises to be a very enjoyable evening.

To reserve seats please telephone Hannah Johnson on 01865 888899 or email hannah.johnson@doverbroecks.com.

Please note there is limited parking at the venue and around Cowley Place, but St. Clements car park is just a short walk away (next to the Angel and Greyhound pub shown on the map - please click the link below the map to view larger version).

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Photography trip to London

On Wednesday 17th October, the Upper and Lower Sixth photography students went on a visit to galleries in London. There were 14 of us in total who took an early train to Paddington. When we arrived in London, we had a little bit of time to take some photos for ourselves; there were some great things to photograph, even though we looked like tourists with big cameras around our necks! (One of my photographs is shown above).

Our first stop was the Tate Modern. I really enjoyed our visit to the Tate as we explored an exhibition based on a photographer we are currently studying- William Eggleston.I especially liked the vibrant colours; at the time the photos were taken colour was unusual because most photographers produced black and white images. It was great to see a lot more of Eggleston's work and it gave me some more ideas on how to present some of my work for the future.

The second visit was to the Barbican gallery. It was a little smaller than the Tate, but we managed to look around another exhibition which also included some photographers we are currently studying in class such as Ernest Cole.

We enjoyed lunch beside the cathedral of St Pauls and had another opportunity to take some good photos.