Walthamstow Academy Sixth Form

Super-Curricular Booklet 2020

Ambition – Determination - Respect

What Are Super-Curricular Activities?“Super-curricular activities are those that take the subjects you study further, beyond that which your teacher has taught you or what you've done for homework” Oxford University

At Walthamstow Academy Sixth Form, we believe that subject knowledge and subject expertise are essential in securing the best possible university places. In addition to grade requirements, the most effective way to support you University application is to show that you have worked consistently and autonomously outside of the classroom and beyond the A level and BTEC curriculum, and that you have genuine interest in your chosen subject

When applying to Universities and for apprenticeships, students who have completed a range of relevant super-curricular activities are more likely to receive multiple offers or asked to attend interviews.

There are many examples of super-curricular activities, including watching and reviewing films, documentaries and TED talks; reading journal articles and books; listening to podcasts; and completing online MOOCS. This link illustrates the vast array of super-curricular activities students could complete to broaden their learning.

Walthamstow Academy Summer Super-Curricular Booklet Key

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This activity is a film, documentary or mini-series.

This activity is a TED talk. TED invites expert speakers to discuss their topics of expertise.

This activity is a book or e-book.

This activity is an online resource, such as an academic journal, newspaper article or information website.

This activity is a podcast.

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• The Paintings That Revolutionized Art - Claudia Stauble (Author, Editor)

• Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics) - John Berger

• The Art Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained” - DK

• Contre-Jour: A Triptych After Pierre Bonnard - Gabriel Josipovici

•Art & Design articles – here

•A Level Art & Design advice – here

• Famous artists information – here

•Art Galleries around the World - here

•Artists network: 12 Top Art Podcasts to Add to Your List – here

•What do Artists do all day? – here

•ArtCurious – here

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

• The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Car

• The Recognitions by William Gaddis

• Portrait of a Man by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos

• How Art technology and design can inform creative leaders - here

• Every piece of art you have ever wanted to see up close and searchable - here

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• Junk DNA – Nessa Carey

• The Red Queen – Matt Ridley

• Frankenstein’s cat – Emily Athes

• A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson

• Topic 1: The Cell – here

• Topic 2: The Immune System – here

• Topic 3: Exercise, Energy and Movement – here

• The Infinite Monkey Cage Podcast – here

• The University of Exeter Biological Research Podcast – here

• Gorillas in the Mist (1988)

• Something the Lord Made (2004)

• Inherit The Wind (1960)

• Andromeda Strain (1971)

• A New Superweapon in the Fight Against Cancer – here

• Why Bees are Disappearing – here

• Why Doctors Don’t Know About the Drugs They Prescribe – here

• Growing New Organs – here

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• The Young Entrepreneurs guide to Starting & Running a Business – Steve Mariotti

• Moneyball – Michael Lewis

• Making your money work for your Future – Paul Lewis

• Steve Jobs – Steve Jobs

• Business news daily – here

• Fundera business articles – here

• Economic times – here

• Tutor 2 U business resources - here

• BBC Business, Finance and Economics podcasts – here

• Top 25 business podcasts - here

• Capitalism: A love story (2009) Directed by Michael Moore

• The Big Short (2015) Directed by Adam McKay

• Wall Street (1987) Directed by Oliver Stone

• What really motivates people to be honest at work? – here

• Management lessons from Chinese business and philosophy – here

• 2 questions to uncover your passion – and turn it into a career - here

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• Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements - Hugh Aldersey-Williams.

• The Science of Everyday Life: Why Teapots Dribble, Toast Burns Light Bulbs Shine - Marty

• Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

• Elemental: The Periodic Table at 150 – here

• New scientist chemistry articles - here

• Batteries should not burst into flames – here

• Oxford University Chemistry Podcasts – here

• The Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian Cox and Robin Ince - here

• Chemistry: A volatile history – here

• Fantastic 4 (2015) – Directed by Josh Trank

• Michio Kaku explains the “real” science behind fantastic four - here

• An introduction to organic chemistry – here

• The incredible chemistry powering your smartphone – here

• How pollution is changing the ocean’s chemistry – here

• How big is a mole? - here

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• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software – Charles Petzold

• Cracking the Coding Interview - Gayle Laakmann McDowell

• Getting Started with Unity: A Beginner's Guide to game development – Dr Edward Lavieri

• Computer science and technology from MIT - here

• 600 free coding courses - here

• Build your own social media app from scratch - here

• Top 10 podcasts for programmers – here

• Oxford University Computer Science podcasts - here

• Hackers (1995) – Iain Softley

• The Matrix (1999) – Lana and Lily Wachowski

• The Imitation Game (2014) – Morten Tyldum

• The birth of the computer – here

• A computer that works like a brain – here

• Shape shifting technology will change how we work – here

• How Photosynth can connect the World’s images – here

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• The Big Short – Michael Lewis

• Freakonomics – Stephen J. Dubner & Steven Levitt

• Doughnut Economics – Kate Raworth

• Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built – Duncan Clark

• The coronavirus is our chance to completely rethink what the economy is for – here

• Economics online – here

• The economy – here

• Undergraduate Economics modules - here

• EconTalk – here

• BBC Business, Finance and Economics podcasts - here

• Margin Call (2011) Directed by J.C. Chandon

• Capitalism: A love story (2009) Directed by Michael Moore

• The Big Short (2015) Directed by Adam McKay

• What is economic value, and who creates it? – here

• The paradox of choice – here

• How the blockchain will radically transform the economy – here

• Capitalism will eat democracy, unless we speak up – here

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• How To Read English Literature - Terry Eagleton

• How Fiction Works - James Wood

• The Art of Fiction - David Lodge

• Doing English: A Guide for Literature Students - Robert Eaglestone

• The other side of Black Mirror: literary utopias offer the seeds of better real life – here

• The Handmaid's Tale: will the relentlessly menacing dystopian fable lose its way? – here

• Dystopian fiction tells a pretty everyday story for many women - here

• The Allusionist Podcast – here

• Penguin’s guide to the 32 best literary and book podcasts – here

• Player FM English Literature Podcast links - here

• Brave New World vs 1984 (intelligence squared discussion) - here

• Hypernormalisation - Adam Curtis Documentary - here

• Margaret Atwood – Women in the World Conference - here

• What does Orwellian actually mean? - here

• Why people need poetry – here

• How did English evolve? – here

• Building a dystopia to make us click on ads - here

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• The Conversation – here

• BBC News – here

• The Guardian online - here

• Oxford University Geography Department Podcasts - here

• Royal Geographical Society - here

• The Documentary podcast - here

• The Boy who harnessed the wind

• Before the Flood (2016) – Fisher Stevens

• An Inconvenient Truth and An Inconvenient Sequel (2006, 2016) – Davis Guggenheim

• The Impossible (2012) – J.A. Bayona

• Slumdog Millionaire (15) – Danny Boyle

• Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall

• Brick Lane - Monica Ali

• The Happy City - Charles Montgomery

• The Power of Place - Harm De Blij

• Why you should be a climate activist - here

• Mega Cities – here

• Maps that show us who were are - here

• Asia’s rise: how and when? - here

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• The fault in your stars - John Green

• The story of Baby P - Ray James

• This is going to hurt - Adam Kay

• When breathe becomes air - Paul Kalanithi

• The importance of the 6 C’s” by Nursing Times – here

• “When cyberbullying meets gaming” – here

• “Cannabis on trial” by National Health Executive – here

• “How working at the Nightingale has changed my student experience” - here

• In sickness and in social care - here

• Rio and Kate Ferdinad - here

• Nurse - here

• The Theory of Everything - James Marsh

• Elizabeth is missing - BBC iplayer

• Confessions of a Junior Doctor - 4onDemand

• Born to be different - 4onDemand

• How racism makes us sick - here

• Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about this? - here

• The pharmacy of the future. Personalised pills, 3D printed at home. - here

• Community health heroes - here

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• Austerity Britain: 1945-51 - David Kynaston

• White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties - Dominic Sandbrook

• Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain - Clair Wills

• Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

• Why Society Needs Historians: Jonathan Healey (Oxford) - here

• The “Knockout” Game, Race, and Fears of Urban Crime in American History - here

• Parliamentary Reform Acts by Asa Briggs - here

• World War One: 10 interpretations of who started WW1 - here

• Germany: Memories of a Nation - here

• Letter from America: Nixon to Carter, 1969-80 - here

• The History Hour - here

• Witness Black History: Civil Rights Movement - here

• Thatcher: A Very British Revolution: Series 1-5 - here

• Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain Series - here

• The Suffragettes: Movie - here

• "Catastrophe 1914: Europe goes to War“ - here

• Celebrating Britain's rich black history: Paul Reid at TEDxBrixton - here

• Why the whitewashing of black history should be a major concern for us all - here

• History is a curious thing, and Niall Ferguson - here

• Cecile Richards: The political progress women have made, and what's next - here

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• Prelude to Mathematics - W.W. Sawyer

• Proofs from The Book - Aigner and Ziegler

• The Joy of x - Steven Strogatz

• Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension - Matt Parker

• Why Hipsters All Look Alike - here

• How often you should beat your kids at cards? - here

• Is It True That Some People Just Can't Do Math? - here

• Funny problems - here

• Mr Barton Maths - here

• Podomatic - here

• Flying Colours Maths - here

• Olico Maths - here

• The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) – Matthew Brown

• A Brilliant Young Mind (2015) – Morgan Matthews

• The Imitation Game (2014) – Morten Tyldum

• Hidden Figures (2016) – Theodore Melfi

• The Mathematics of Love - here

• Why you should love statistics - here

• Hire the Hackers - here

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• Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Popular Culture Converge – Leisbet Van Zoonen

• Postcolonial Melenacolia – Paul Gilroy

• All About Love – Bell Hooks

• Power Without Responsibility: The Press & broadcasting in Britain - Curran & Seaton

• The media’s influence on society - here

• Mass Media and Its influence on society - here

• What effect is social media having on society? - here

• Sexuality and mass media - here

• The Media Show, BBC Radio 4 - here

• On the Media, Peabody Award winning podcast - here

• The Media Podcast - here

• A film from the BFI player (British Film Institute) – here

• Black Mirror (2011) – Charlie Brooker

• 13th (2016) – Ava DuVerney

• Patriot Act (2008) - Hasan Minaj

• Can you Spot the problem with these headlines? - here

• 3 ways to spot a bad statistic - here

• How I accidentally changed the way movies get made - here

• The future of story telling - here

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• Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard Feynman

• Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth - Andrew Smith

• Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You - Marcus Chown

• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

• Black Holes – here

• Hiding objects from heat sensing cameras - here

• How quantum mechanics lets heat cross a vacuum - here

• Titanium physicists – here

• BBC Science - here

• Twis - here

• Gravity (2013) – Alfonso Cauron

• Interstellar (2014) – Christopher Nolan

• The Imitation Game (2014) – Mortem Tyldum

• Is there more than one universe? - here

• The “smoking gun” data - here

• The history of the universe - here

• Giant telescopes and detectors - here

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• Bad Pharma – Ben Goldacre

• Behind the shock machine – Gina Perry

• The man who mistook his wife for a hat – Oliver Sacks

• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ – Daniel Goleman

• Lockdown is the world's biggest psychological experiment - and we will pay the price - here

• Cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis – here

• Psychological perspectives of the corona virus - here

• How fear of the coronavirus is changing our psychology - here

• Psychology and black lives matter – here

• Super psychology - here

• All in the Mind - here

• Body Clock: What makes us tick? (Biological Rhythms/Sleep) – here

• Three Identical Strangers (Twins/Biological - 3 twins separated) - here

• Stacey Dooley On The Psych Ward - here

• How to Make Stress Your Friend – here

• This could be why you are depressed or anxious - here

• What makes people happy and lead a long life - here

• Am I Not Human - here

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• Animal Farm – George Orwell

• 1984 – George Orwell

• The Establishment and How They Get Away With It – Owen Jones

• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (also a series)

• Working-class children get less of everything in education – here

• Black Lives Matter – here

• Religious Morality - here

• This American Life - here

• Outrage and Optimism - here

• You’re dead to me - here

• The Secret Life of 5 year olds (Channel 4 series)

• Freedom Writers (Amazon Prime)

• When They See Us (Netflix)

• The Society (Netflix)

• We should all be Feminists – here

• Why are boys failing? - here

• Organised crime networks – here