Please read!
Good evening Year 13 and a happy bank holiday to you all. There are some pretty important reminders and messages in this bulletin so if you know that some of your friends are unlikely to read this, please pass on the important messages. Your tutors will also be reinforcing some of these messages in our next round of phone calls in two weeks.
1. Leaver's Ball and Mass
I have managed to book a new date for the Leaver's Ball 🕺 which is now Wednesday 9th September. The plan is for you to have your Leaver's Mass during the day followed by the Ball in the evening so please keep the whole day free.
N.B. If this date can not go ahead due to restrictions still being in place, then the back up plan is to hold the Mass and Ball on Thursday 17th December, when you're home for the Holidays. Again, please keep this date free, just in case.
2. Student Finance
The deadline to apply to Student Finance is two week's tomorrow on Friday 22nd May. Even if you don’t know what course you are doing, you should still apply now, just enter your first choice and you can update the application later if required.
3. Replying to your UCAS offers
If you receive your last decision on or before 4 June 2020, your reply date is 18 June 2020 (except if you're using Extra to find a place).
If you receive your last decision on or before 13 July 2020, your reply date is 20 July 2020 (including Extra choices)
Making Friends:
Don’t worry if you are very different to who you get put in a flat with. Most of your friends are likely to come from sports teams/clubs, your course and societies (nightclubs are not always the best place to meet friends)
Getting Involved:
•Playing for a sports team gives you so much structure to your week. Frequent training and matches also means you can’t go out every-night.
•Allows you to meet people outside your year.
•Wednesday night sports club socials are the highlight of the week for many.
•Keeps you healthy (mental and physical)
•If you are not into sport, academic societies are also very good.
•The main thing I would suggest is just get involved as much as you can with whatever floats your boat.
Housing for 2nd year:
•Be quick but the most important thing is who you choose to live with. You hear about a lot of drama and fights because people decide on a group too quickly that they are no longer friends with 2 months down the line.
Finances:
•The main thing I would say here is to ask your parents to transfer you weekly instead of by term or by month as it is easier to budget/manage finances.
•Pre-drinking will save you a lot of money.
First year is not as easy as I thought academically. A lot of the time you are learning about stuff that you have never seen before. It is important you make time to stay on top of your work. Lecturers don’t remind you like at sixth form unfortunately.
Although first year grade may not count toward degree it is vital in order to get an internship, placement year or work experience which you will need.
*Have fun you will have the time of your life and meet friends for life.
Key details:
Thursdays at 10am – 11:30am GMT
Lectures will be 45 minutes, we will then have a 5 minute break and come back for an interactive Q&A. You will be able to post your questions on the lecture and Professor Muthoo will try and answer as many as possible in 40 minutes.
Lecture topics
The short course will focus on the exciting areas of Game Theory and Behavioural Economics in relation to pandemics.
Thursday 14 May – Cooperation in the time of Corona
In this session, we use Game Theory, which is a key topic in Economics, to discuss people’s incentives (or lack of) to cooperate in a context of a Pandemic. We will show how Game Theory can help provide insights into how such cooperation can be secured.
Thursday 21 May - Intertemporal Cooperation and Coordination
In this session we build on the previous session and in particular explore the extent to which future punishments might induce cooperation today. We will also take a look at problems of coordination. All this using Game Theory.
Thursday 28 May – Insights from Behavioural Economics for Covid-19
In this session we discuss how insights from Behavioural Economics and Nudge Theory can help design policies to deal with controlling Pandemics such as Covid-19. We will talk about a few of the main cognitive biases that us humans possess, and which in turn can inform policy.
Thursday 4 June – Behavioural Economics for Pandemics
In this session we build on the previous one and in particular we look at other key cognitive biases, and tease out their implications for behaviour and, in turn, for policy-making of the nudge variety.
How do you sign up?
Please sign up on this webpage in order to attend, a link to the session will be emailed to you in advance.
1. Leaver's Ball and Mass
I have managed to book a new date for the Leaver's Ball 🕺 which is now Wednesday 9th September. The plan is for you to have your Leaver's Mass during the day followed by the Ball in the evening so please keep the whole day free.
N.B. If this date can not go ahead due to restrictions still being in place, then the back up plan is to hold the Mass and Ball on Thursday 17th December, when you're home for the Holidays. Again, please keep this date free, just in case.
2. Student Finance
The deadline to apply to Student Finance is two week's tomorrow on Friday 22nd May. Even if you don’t know what course you are doing, you should still apply now, just enter your first choice and you can update the application later if required.
3. Replying to your UCAS offers
If you receive your last decision on or before 4 June 2020, your reply date is 18 June 2020 (except if you're using Extra to find a place).
If you receive your last decision on or before 13 July 2020, your reply date is 20 July 2020 (including Extra choices)
Please ensure you have replied to your offers by these dates otherwise you will lose out!
Once you've replied to your offers then you can get on to choosing your accommodation which is the exciting part!
On the theme of UCAS, the UCAS Facebook page have been holding some really helpful (but long) Q & A Zoom sessions. The most recent one was for Year 13 and I would highly recommend watching it. I've tried to attach it to this blog but unfortunately the file is too large (I told you it was long) but you can easily find it on their page.
4. Unibuddy
UCAS have an excellent initiative where you can connect and chat to students who are at your future Universities and I would thoroughly recommend using it to ask questions and get to know your future course. You are able to find the page here.
5. Top tips for University from Salesian Alumnae
I have been gathering some top tips for University from Old Salesian Students and here is what they have to say:
From Pablo Gonzalez and friends:
Don’t worry if you are very different to who you get put in a flat with. Most of your friends are likely to come from sports teams/clubs, your course and societies (nightclubs are not always the best place to meet friends)
Getting Involved:
•Playing for a sports team gives you so much structure to your week. Frequent training and matches also means you can’t go out every-night.
•Allows you to meet people outside your year.
•Wednesday night sports club socials are the highlight of the week for many.
•Keeps you healthy (mental and physical)
•If you are not into sport, academic societies are also very good.
•The main thing I would suggest is just get involved as much as you can with whatever floats your boat.
Housing for 2nd year:
•Be quick but the most important thing is who you choose to live with. You hear about a lot of drama and fights because people decide on a group too quickly that they are no longer friends with 2 months down the line.
Finances:
•The main thing I would say here is to ask your parents to transfer you weekly instead of by term or by month as it is easier to budget/manage finances.
•Pre-drinking will save you a lot of money.
First year is not as easy as I thought academically. A lot of the time you are learning about stuff that you have never seen before. It is important you make time to stay on top of your work. Lecturers don’t remind you like at sixth form unfortunately.
Although first year grade may not count toward degree it is vital in order to get an internship, placement year or work experience which you will need.
*Have fun you will have the time of your life and meet friends for life.
From Isabella Gonzalez (at Durham) and friends:
Isabella was due to come in and speak to you in an assembly and so she has sent me a PowerPoint which you can view here. Please someone let me know if this link doesn't work and I will send it out to you instead as there are some really helpful tips.
6. Hoping to study Economics or just interested in the subject?
Warwick University are offering a free short course in Economics designed for students aged 16-18 who wish to enhance their learning and experience a new topic on the world’s most relevant issue today. There are four sessions which will last for 90 minutes and take place on Thursdays at 10am, starting on the 14 May 2020.Key details:
Thursdays at 10am – 11:30am GMT
Lectures will be 45 minutes, we will then have a 5 minute break and come back for an interactive Q&A. You will be able to post your questions on the lecture and Professor Muthoo will try and answer as many as possible in 40 minutes.
Lecture topics
The short course will focus on the exciting areas of Game Theory and Behavioural Economics in relation to pandemics.
Thursday 14 May – Cooperation in the time of Corona
In this session, we use Game Theory, which is a key topic in Economics, to discuss people’s incentives (or lack of) to cooperate in a context of a Pandemic. We will show how Game Theory can help provide insights into how such cooperation can be secured.
Thursday 21 May - Intertemporal Cooperation and Coordination
In this session we build on the previous session and in particular explore the extent to which future punishments might induce cooperation today. We will also take a look at problems of coordination. All this using Game Theory.
Thursday 28 May – Insights from Behavioural Economics for Covid-19
In this session we discuss how insights from Behavioural Economics and Nudge Theory can help design policies to deal with controlling Pandemics such as Covid-19. We will talk about a few of the main cognitive biases that us humans possess, and which in turn can inform policy.
Thursday 4 June – Behavioural Economics for Pandemics
In this session we build on the previous one and in particular we look at other key cognitive biases, and tease out their implications for behaviour and, in turn, for policy-making of the nudge variety.
How do you sign up?
Please sign up on this webpage in order to attend, a link to the session will be emailed to you in advance.
Have you subscribed to the Salesian Page on YouTube? If not, you should! Even if it is just to laugh at me singing in the Salesian Staff Choir!
You can find the channel here.
That's all from me for now. I pick up my puppy tomorrow so I am very excited!! Rest assured that future blog posts will be full to the brim of puppy pics.
Happy bank holiday all 🌞🍷
Mrs Clarke
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