W o o d h o u s e C o l l e g e 8 DECEMBER 2014 Seasonal Safety and Healthy Holidays Come along to the social area at lunchtime on Friday 12 December to find out how to stay safe over the festive season. Lots to see and do, visit the alcohol awareness stand to try a Mocktail or see if your measures measure up. The Health Hub & BU21 scheme will be back, pop along to find out more. Check out the Transport Police stand; get some tips on staying safe when you travel home over the holidays. Kali Nicolaou EPQ Students Reminder The deadline for handing in your EPQ is today at 4.30pm in the main office. Please refer to the email I have sent you previously for more details on what you need to do. Ian Hooper
Message For Tutor Group Reps L6 tutor group reps: Your next meeting is today at 12.55pm in Room 1. U6 tutor group reps: Your next meeting is Tuesday 9 December at 11.00am in the conference room. We look forward to seeing you all there and if for any reason you can t attend, you must send your deputy along. Domestic Violence Campaign The Woodhouse Educators Group recognizes that not only women are victims of domestic violence, men are too. We feel that it is important to lend our support to these male victims, and end the stigma they face regarding domestic violence. For more info click on this link: https://prezi.com/bbzr33ho-8st/domestic-violence/ Keziah Doudy-Yepmo on behalf of The Educators Enrichment Extra - 2015 There will be an Enrichment Extra Fair on Wednesday 10 December at 1.30pm in the social area. Find out details about courses on offer from the course tutors. Sign up for Enrichment Extra via Woodle from 2.00pm on the same day to 2.30pm Friday 12 December. Don t miss out: be part of something extra! Chris Mann Page 2
Careers Workshop: Getting into a competitive school leaver scheme, KPMG, Wednesday 10 December 1.30pm - 3.30pm, Careers Room (R30), - all students welcome. When you apply to the prestigious KPMG school leaver scheme or others run by big companies, it can be daunting. This workshop will take you through the KPMG process of application. These two hours could change your future. We were specifically targeted by KPMG to take part as we have lots of potential business and accountancy talent at Woodhouse! For more info go to: http://www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/school-leavers/ school-leaver-programme Book now on Woodle Events, limited spaces. Questions? email jgreatwich@woodhouse.ac.uk Joanna Greatwich Volunteering Opportunity Are you highly motivated? Have original ideas for fundraising? Want to do some volunteering and gain work experience? Educate for Change looks after orphans in Uganda, helping them with school fees, clothes, food and healthcare. We need to raise funds to help more orphans and are seeking a team of volunteer fundraisers at Woodhouse. If you are interested please apply by email to Olivia Stanton ostanton@woodhouse.ac.uk stating why you would be a good fundraiser and giving some ideas for how you and the team could raise money. Deadline for applications is Friday 12 December. Olivia Stanton Page 3
Woodhouse Crisis At Christmas Charity Appeal The average life expectancy of a male living on the streets is forty seven. The Crisis At Christmas collection for the homeless is a well established tradition amongst Woodhouse students and staff. Each year car loads of boxes packed to capacity are delivered to centres set up by the CRISIS charity for the homeless in the London area, thanks to your generosity and to Michelle Junnor (our LRC manager) who transports the boxes to the centres for us in time for Christmas. We now invite you to donate items from this year's wish list, (available from your tutor and on Woodle), for your tutor group collection box. Your reps and deputies will coordinate the collection. Alternatively you could choose a monetary collection for the charity (ask your tutor for more info). Thanks in advance for supporting such a worthwhile cause and helping make a homeless person's Christmas that bit more special. Mary Mc Hugh Your Christmas Playlist Now it's December you will be beginning to feel Christmassy and the want to spread some festive cheer! So please complete the survey on Woodle to tell us what your favourite Christmas song of all time is and we will include the most popular ones in our Christmas playlist which we will share with you the last week of term. Design a Christmas Card Competition If you're feeling a bit creative why not enter our Design a Woodhouse Christmas Card competition. All you have to do is design the front of the card. We are open to all ideas but would like a design/image that we can use on a card - landscape or portrait that captures the festive spirit. So get your creative juices flowing and email your design to mmchugh@woodhouse.ac.uk stating your name and tutor group by Wednesday17 December. There is a mystery prize for the winner! Mary Mc Hugh Page 4
Candy Cane Deliveries for Christmas Your tutor group rep will be taking orders for these in today s tutorial so please have a think about who you might like to deliver a candy cane & special Christmas message to! There will be a small charge only for the delivery service. Offers and Promotions of the Week Monday buy a slice of pizza and get a bottle of water for free. Thursday Christmas lunch. We will also have a salad bar, jacket potatoes, sandwiches, baguettes and wraps. As the whole counter will be taken over for Christmas lunch there will be no other hot food. Buy any salad box and get a half price fruit pot. Running all week. Celebrating the Diversity of our Students and Staff Religious/Cultural Festivals this week (If we have left out any important festivals that you are involved in, please tell your Personal Tutor.) Monday 8 December is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Christian). (Celebrated by Roman Catholics who remember Mary s Conception as being without sin, therefore, immaculate.) Monday 8 December is Bodhi Day (Buddhist). (On Bodhi day some Buddhist celebrate Gautama s attainment of enlightenment under the Bodhi tree at Bodhgaya, India.) Saturday 13 December is the St Lucy s Day (Christian). (Celebrated by Catholics, Orthodox Christians and the Lutheran Church.) Page 5