Bosworth Independent College News

Summer School 2010 at Bosworth Independent college

2009-10-19T08:18:00.004+01:00

Summer School 2010 at Bosworth Independent college

Bosworth Independent College has been running summer school programmes for over 15 years. The programmes are aimed at individuals or small school groups who wish to benefit from a professionally structured language course balanced with social and cultural activities across the week. All of our programmes are managed by full-time staff within the college.

For 2010 we are offering the following programmes:

Academic English for Teens (13–19 years old)
Combined Course: English Language with Art Portfolio Preparation

For more information on our Summer School 2010 and to download the brochure and application form, please check out our Summer School 2010 information under our courses information.

We look forward to seeing you next Summer.

Watch us on the BBC - Wednesday 14th October

2009-10-13T07:33:00.001+01:00

Watch us on the BBC - Wednesday 14th October

We are taking part in a BBC series on Education. The series is being broadcast to the following channels: BBC news channel, BBC world, the world service, radio 4, BBC online & the One o'clock news.

Depending on the what other news breaks on Wednesday we may have an hourly slot with some or all of the the channels above.

For example the school taking part on the programme today appeared:

9.20 BBC news channel
10.35 BBC news channel
10.45 World Service
11.35 BBC news channel
13.20 BBC One o'clock news
15.35 BBC news channel
16.35 BBC news channel
17.35 BBC news channel
17.45 BBC World

A-Level Course Information in detail

2009-10-05T02:45:00.002+01:00

Bosworth Independent College A-Level Courses

Our A-Level course information is now available in detail for each A-Level subject on our website. Go to the bottom of our A-Level Courses page and choose from one of the 17 course descriptions. Here you can read more on each subject or download the information as a .pdf to takeaway and read when it suits you.

Examples include:

Law
Mathematics
Economics
Chemistry
English Literature
Art
and many more...

Any questions on our courses can be directed to our Admissions Team at anytime.

We are looking forward to hearing from you and hope this information is useful.

GCSE Results 2009

2009-08-31T05:16:00.002+01:00

Each year Bosworth Independent College has a growing number of students joining them to study the GCSE programme. Whilst the College has a strong reputation locally for its A-Level courses, many will not be aware that students join them from the age of 14 to study GCSE.

For a variety of reasons, a number of our current GCSE students transferred to Bosworth and chose to complete the one year intensive programme. Whilst this proves a challenge for the students the results have more than rewarded their efforts this year.

One of our local students Bethany Slinn (pictured above) who completed the one year intensive programme has celebrated 8 GCSE’s - 2 A* and 6 A grades and equally impressive one of our Polish students based in Northampton attained 6 GCSE’s – all A grades, both wonderful personal achievements.

Mike McQuin (Principal of Bosworth Independent College) explains; ‘I would like to see more pupils studying with us at GCSE level because having the students across a three or four year period helps us to ensure they achieve a good University place.’

A-Level Results 2009

2009-08-20T15:35:00.006+01:00

Bosworth Independent College students once again achieved exceptional results across the board with 78.4% of the entrants gaining one ‘A’ grade, 52.9% gaining two ‘A’ grades and 36.2% gaining three ‘A’ grades from the 102 students entered. All students gained a pass grade in all subjects and virtually all students expect to begin a University course in September.

Mike McQuin (The Principal) was obviously upbeat about this year’s results, but interestingly he wasn’t just praising the straight ‘A’ students.

“Of course we are pleased with the results of the very good students and it’s always good to get your students into the top universities or to study in competitive areas like medicine or law, but we are often happier with the students who have achieved more modest results.

In this year’s cohort there are students who came to us, probably not expecting to achieve more than a pass grade at A-Level, but who now have B and C grades and are on their way to University against all expectations. For the College and its teachers, these are the real successes. It is, after all, what we all came into teaching for – to help young people achieve more than they ever thought possible”

Please visit our results page for more information on our Summer 2009 A-Level results.

A Level Results and Confirmation

2009-08-19T11:54:00.002+01:00

Results

Exam results will be available at college from 9.00am on Thursday 20th August. We can give you your results over the phone but we cannot tell you anybody else’s results without their written permission. It is a busy time on the phones and so we ask you not to request breakdowns of individual marks until after 11 0’clock. It is only fair that all students can get through to us on the lines to confirm their final grades. Unlike at AS the individual marks do not matter – the only thing the university is interested in is the grade - they will not care about a high B or a low B. If you e mail a request to ec@bosworthcollege.com we will reply with details of marks as soon as we can usually by the end of the day. If would like a remark of any papers this will not be dealt with until Friday 21st August and you should phone then to discuss. The boards rarely make mistakes so don’t make plans around this!!

For more information please see our updated Clearing Procedures 2009 section:

Best of luck with your results tomorrow.

Local students come in from around the county for revision

2009-06-23T11:41:00.006+01:00

In six days over April, Bosworth Independent College provided an intensive Easter Revision programme aimed at focusing the attention of students in the crucial period that begins the countdown towards year-end examinations.

Apart from revisiting course content, there were study skills sessions to aid revision technique, with mock examinations taking place on the second day of each course to test the students' progress. The programme was met with great enthusiasm and success from all the students that took part and our feedback included the following comments:

"It makes you feel more prepared and motivated for your exams"

"Highlights areas of weakness and helps to plan targeted revision in these areas"

"Friendly, good learning environment"

"Teaching is informal and doesn't feel like revision"

"Excellent teaching, pupils really want to achieve the best grade possible and everything runs very smoothly"

With students from good schools all around the county choosing to spend their time at Bosworth for the most important part of their exam preparation, this in itself tells its own story.

Bosworth students awarded for their hard work

2009-06-19T11:45:00.003+01:00

The Council for Independent Education (CIFE) held their annual awards ceremony on 23rd April 2009 at the House of Lords and it was hosted by Baroness Perry of Southwark. These awards are in recognition of outstanding achievement by students in end of year public examinations. CIFE is a professional association of independent colleges in the UK. This year, five students from Bosworth achieved such recognition.

The Richard Smart Prize for Mathematics and Sciences

Eugene Chiu, Malaysian - Maths with Economics at University College London

Desmond Lee, Malaysian - Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Management at Imperial University

Ashley Hong, Malaysian - Medicine at Edinburgh Univeristy

The Richard Smart Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences and Languages

Sneh Jani, British - French and German at Bristol University

Vy Le Thao Tran, Vietnamese - Management studies at Nottingham University

The Principal and Vice-Principal were present at the awards and were both very proud!

(Picture from right to left) Eugene Chi, Ashley Hong, Mrs. Carter (Vice Principal) Desmond Lee and Sneh Jani

Bosworth Summer Ball 2009

2009-06-01T13:11:00.001+01:00

The eighth Bosworth summer ball took place on Saturday 23^rd May and was our most successful so far. Over 250 students enjoyed the atmosphere of the town’s historic Guildhall. Everyone dressed up for the occasion and some even hired stretched limousines so that they could arrive in style. Everyone who went really enjoyed themselves as you can see from the photographs:

Bosworth Photo Gallery

Bosworth Flickr Stream

Community Participation

2009-05-01T14:00:00.003+01:00

Caption: Students attending Northampton Cathedral, situated next to the college, for Choir club.

Some of our students are actively getting involved in the local community and taking part in events and activities organised outside of the college. Some of our female students have joined a local dance class and are learning Latin steps plusa younger student, and very keen footballer, joined a local football team and plays regularly at weekends. Some students keen to earn extra pocket-money and also practice their English have undertaken part-time week-end employment in local shops, and restaurants. Several students also participate in voluntary work at local charity shops and in a old people’s home. We believe that students benefit from taking part in work experience and activities outside of the college. For our overseas students this is especially relevant to improve their English and integrate into British society and these experiences add to their UCAS university application. Universities are always very impressed by students who get involved with events and activities outside of school.

(Left to right – Back) Kevin Lo (Malaysian), Henri Ooi (Malaysian)

(Left to right – Front) Meredith Nguyen (Vietnamese), Hayley Vu (Vietnamese), Oksana Smirnova (Ukranian),

Summer School 2009 Places Available

2009-05-01T13:51:00.004+01:00

There are still some places left on our Summer School programme for individual or group bookings. The course runs for six weeks over the summer and is aimed at individuals who wish to benefit from a professionally structured language course, balanced with social and cultural activities across the week. All of our programmes are managed by full-time staff within the college; group and individual bookings are available. We expect this year to be the best Summer School so far.

Application forms are available from the Admissions Office

Caption: Alfonso Ferraro with Italian student in London. This is the second year Alfonso has come to Bosworth with a small group of students from Rome and he choose Bosworth because of “The quality of the course, teaching, class size, efficiency of groupings by language ability, mix of nationalities, and the activities and trips provide. Everything is a good standard and the staff are so friendly.”

The Bosworth Economist

2009-05-01T13:47:00.000+01:00

We are pleased to announce that the Bosworth Economist is now online! This magazine is written by our Economic students and staff and covers a variety of topics: analysis of the current economic climate, ideas and views from featured Economists and information relating to studying A-Level Economics. This is a useful resource for current students of Economics and those with an interest in joining Bosworth Independent College in the future. In fact prospective students are invited to join our ‘economist weekly blog’.

www.bosworthcollege.com/economics - for more information.

University Courses Already!

2009-05-01T12:38:00.002+01:00

The following students passed their Open University short course in science:

Atewologun, Yemi (Nigerian)
Chen, Julia (Chinese)
Lim, Jun Wei (Malaysian)
Nguyen, Lynne (Vietnamese)
Pankova, Karina (Latvian)
Poone, Sadie (British)
Safronov, Kyrylo (Ukrainian)
Tuckus, Arita (Latvian)
Ye, Hannah (Chinese)

Kevin Lo (Malaysian) and Christine Dao (Vietnamese) completed and passed their course before these students.

These accredited Open University courses were available to students to study at their own pace over the summer break. It gave our students experience dealing with university-level work and forced them to think and study for themselves!

In total 11 students passed. Well done to you all!

More activities at Bosworth

2009-05-01T12:22:00.007+01:00

Bosworth College hires a nearby sports hall several times a week for students to take part in a variety of sporting activities, during a Thursday afternoon enrichment session as well as most evenings and weekends.

Bosworth also runs a popular activities afternoon that offers art, music and other leisure pursuits. These student activities are changing on a termly basis and now include:

Choir
Keep fit for girls
Table Tennis
5-a-side indoor football

We always encourage students to keep fit and healthy mentally, as well as physically,

as it helps them to concentrate in class and with their studies. Getting involved in these sorts of activities is a great break from class but also develops their team-building and social skills, and adapting to UK life for our overseas students.

(Above) Football and Art are popular activities at Bosworth

Freaky snow

2009-05-01T12:20:00.002+01:00

During February, 270 schools in Northamptonshire closed for a couple of days due to extreme weather conditions and heavy snow fall. We experienced around 15-20cm of snow which made driving conditions terrible and many flights to and from London Heathrow were cancelled.

For many of our students, it was a great day to relax and enjoy fresh snow – and many could experience it for the first time in their lives. For others, it was difficult to understand why England stopped moving for 2 days!

Our students certainly enjoyed themselves and were upset to come back into lessons the very next day.

(Above) Students enjoyed the snow and got the chance to build their very own snowman!

Staff Visits

2009-05-01T12:18:00.003+01:00

This term (April – June) college representatives are visiting several overseas locations. Please check the travel diary on the website as you may have friends or family who wish to meet our staff. Some of the visits already arranged include Brazil, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Vietnam, China and Hong Kong.

Trips are constantly being planned so do check the site for the latest information, including what cities will be covered in each country.

Charity Day

2009-05-01T12:09:00.005+01:00

Written by Camilla Raca and Sunny Amar (British)

For this year’s Red Nose Day, the Student Council held various activities to raise money for Comic Relief. We began with a student slave auction where the student committee volunteers themselves as slaves for a day. This proved a success as we raised over £70. We then followed with a cake sale which raised over £100 : ) Combined with the teacher’s total, we raised over £230.

Also to raise money for “Rainbows Children Hospice”, the Student Council have set up a spring party which has so far raised over £300. We hope it will be a great night and prove a success.

On the night of the Spring Fling, we have also decided to sell glow sticks to raise money and make the night fun!

(Above) Camilla Raca and Sunny Amar (British) organising and sell cakes for Red Nose Day

(Above right) Slaves for the day on sale!

Challenging Maths

2009-05-01T12:06:00.004+01:00

Congratulations to Hoang Tung Nguyen (Vietnamese) for being awarded a Silver medal in the Mathematics Olympiad and to DOAN Quang Thinh (Vietnamese), NGUYEN Van Anh (Vietnamese) and XIONG Peter (Chinese) who were all awarded Distinctions. This represents an awe-inspiring level of mathematical skill and we are very proud!

IELTS results

2009-05-01T12:04:00.002+01:00

In an attempt to help the Bosworth teachers understand how de

manding IELTS is, the English Department recently tested all of The Senior Management Team. Although we all managed to pass it came as a surprise just how difficult it is and the range of language that is needed to achieve the higher grades required by top UK universities. We were delighted with the recent success of the A2 and Foundation students - 75% of students achieved 6.0 or over and 56% achieved 6.5 or over - in particular Linda Skujina from Latvia with 8.0 and Oi Yean Wong from Malaysia with 8.5 including an impressive top 9.0 for listening. The next test will be in May so everyone who has not quite made their grades needs to practise practise practise.

(From left to right)

Noel Ndukwe (Nigerian), Laolu Ogun (Nigerian), Yuliya Ronis (Ukrainian), Kiryl Safronov (Ukrainian), Oi Yean Wong (Malaysian) celebrate their IELTS success.

Hong Kong Gala Dinner 29th November

2009-05-01T11:59:00.001+01:00

Mr. Yong Fang (second from top left) and Mrs. Carter (centre) with parents, agents and past students

The British Council organised a glamorous dinner and award ceremony at the Football Club in Hong Kong to celebrate 60 years of successfully promoting British Education abroad. It was a truly stunning occasion with over 500 guests. Bosworth Independent College was very happy and proud to act as host at one of the tables. Yong Fang (Business Development Manager South East Asia) and Mrs Carter (our Vice Principal) were joined by parents, agents and past students.

These are representative of all the people that work together to make the experience of a UK education a success for our students; it was good to be able to meet together, to share and take pride in the achievements of Bosworth students both past and present.

Paintball Fight

2009-05-01T11:40:00.009+01:00

Students got together on an organised event for some paintball action on a wet and muddy weekend. They were split into teams, ran off into the forest and shot loads of paint at each other using specially designed guns.

All the students got kitted out in safety protection wear and had a great time. Here are some of the comments:

“Cold, wet, snowy, dirty – Fantastic!”

“we think that paintball was so much fun and amazing”

“very exciting and challenging!”

“this was one of the most memorable days since I have studied in Britain”

“fantastic and thrilling adventure, well organised, over all comment – ‘excellent’”

“I hope there will be more fun activities like this”

“Very exciting and cool!”

“I don’t think I have any negative comments – it was well organised and we all had loads of fun. Looking forward to more events like this”

We hope to do more organised events like this in the summer term and look forward to the next activity.

(Photo Above) Dias Moldabayev (Kazakh), Assyl Myrzakhmet (Kazakh), Daniel Andrade (Portuguese) pose before their paintball fight.

Course information translated and new photo gallery

2009-03-03T17:09:00.000Z

We have now created a Flickr photostream and Bosworth Photo Gallery that will be updated regularly with new photos of our college, students, events that take place and so on. We hope you subscribe to it and enjoy receiving photo updates.

Translations of our school and course information have now also been completed and added to the site in 5 different languages: Arabic, Russian, German, Japanese and Portuguese.

The new Points Based System (PBS)

2008-12-03T10:40:00.000Z

Points Based System
The new Points Based System (PBS) for student visas will be in place by March 2009. Any institution offering a place of study to a student must have a Sponsor Licence Number (SLN).

Bosworth Independent College are pleased to announce that we have been granted our licence and as from March the licence number will appear on all of our ‘Confirmation of Acceptance’ Letters.

We do strongly advise all prospective students to be aware of the changes to the visa application process and read the information on the following web site: www.ukvisas.gov.uk

Please see Bosworth Admissions for more details.

Our First “Alumni Reunion”

2008-09-22T15:49:00.005+01:00

Our First “Alumni Reunion”

The first Bosworth College Alumni Reunion took place on Saturday 20^th September at Northampton’s Guildhall.

Around sixty ex-students enjoyed the evening, catching up with fellow students and current teaching staff in a friendly atmosphere.

Many nationalities were represented amongst our British students, including students from as far away as Malaysia, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Australia, Iran and Vietnam. All of them commented positively on their Bosworth College experience and the opportunity to meet up again after so long; five of those who attended left the college ten years ago. Many of the most recent leavers were still involved in Higher Education though the majority of long-term alumni students had achieved degrees at university and were now enjoying successful careers in the UK and abroad.

All of those who attended were keen for other events to take place and promised to keep in touch through the College’s Facebook page. Future activities will be advertised on Facebook where the College’s Alumni group currently has 450 members. If you are an alumni student look out for the Bosworth College Alumni page on Facebook!

Lip Jin Saw (Malaysia) works for Shell and is based in London, pictured here with Mrs. Gill Hills and Mrs. Sheila Underwood.

Bosworth Bulletin Volume 1 - June 2008

2008-09-01T09:30:00.000+01:00

Our latest newsletter has been printed and is also available online.

We have news from our Spring Term with highlights including:

Bosworth students win national awards
A Level students invited to exhibit at top local gallery
Mini-term gives the students more opportunities
Latest sports news at Bosworth

It can be viewed online here.

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