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Superstars Event
Our Sport and Physical Activity students have been busy organising a ‘Superstars’ event today as part of the ‘Organising Sporting Events unit of their course. Pupils from ten local secondary schools are currently going head to head! Their athletic ability is being put to the test through a range of activities including rowing, swimming, sprinting,…
Chemistry at QMC
Chemistry students enjoy completing additional experiments and hearing from guest speakers as part of the additional lunchtime enrichment sessions. This week they also enjoyed sharing their experiences of studying Chemistry at QMC, with visitors at the very busy Open Evening! #QMCollaborative #QMCreative #QMCurious #QMCourageous
Law students – National Bar Mock Trial
The Law students took part in the National Bar Mock Trial Competition at Southampton Solent University. This involved representing either prosecution or defence in two criminal cases, with students taking roles as advocates, witnesses or court staff. Our students worked very hard to prepare for the event and performed very well, convincing the jury in…
Climbing Trip
PE at QMC! Our A Level PE 2nd Year students took a trip to Parthian Climbing, Southampton last week, where they were taught how to do bouldering, top rope climbing and speed climbing. This was an exciting day for the students, they thoroughly enjoyed the experience. #QMCourageous #QMCollaborative #QMCurious #StudentTrips #PEStudnetsAtQMC
Work Experience at QMC
#SubjectSunday – Media at Queen Mary’s College This week we had our Year 2 Media students taking part in work experience around the College. Ellen (left), Sophie (Right) and Morgan (Back) helped the QMC Marketing team this week by experiencing how Marketing at our College is done. One group were given the opportunity to showcase…
Duke of Edinburgh 2022
The Duke of Edinburgh students are back out again doing their expedition, they have been involved in a couple team work activities, such as putting up their tents and following a map. Day 1 “Currently raining but it was quite nice first thing this morning…” – Sarah Goldson #QMCollaborative #QMCourageous #QMCurious #DukeOfEdinburgh Day 2 “Very…
Brit Challenge
DONATE The Brit Challenge 2022 Queen Mary’s College take on 2,022 miles for Mental Health Awareness Queen Mary’s College set its sites on an ambitious target to raise awareness of mental health in young adults and students. They took part in the national BRIT Challenge which sees colleges and universities come together to individually try…
QMC Conference 2022
What is the role of risk in progress and excellence? This was the theme of the QMC Conference last week. The hugely popular annual conference – now in its third year – encourages students out of their comfort zones to take on really big interdisciplinary questions. Guest speaker Aisha Washington (Interim CEO of @get_further) made a…
Esports Arena in Minecraft
Current Esports students James Rigby and Emily Torr have put together a realistic Minecraft world of the QMC Esports Arena. Here is what they had to say about it. “We chose to take part in the competition after seeing the announcement on Twitter and saw the opportunity as a fun and enjoyable challenge to develop…
Maths Challenges 2021
On December 2nd, six QMC maths students sat the Senior Kangaroo Challenge. They had qualified for this national problem-solving competition by achieving a Gold Award in an earlier national competition – the Senior Mathematical Challenge which took place on Thursday 11th November. Year 12 student Olly Brown competed alongside Year 13 students George Austin, Taylor…
