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Academic Enrichment BLOG

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  • Stepping Up Your Study Skills

    Have GCSE exams got you feeling overwhelmed, worried or stressed? Look no further than Stepping Up Your Study Skills - an online 6 week course designed to help with revision techniques and much more!

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  • Maths Short Story Competition

    The Young Mathematical Story Authors (YMSA) competition is the world's first annual international competition set up to encourage young mathematics learners (4-16 years old) from around the world to creatively embed their mathematics learning in a meaningful and engaging context through creating their own mathematical story picture books.

    ​This competition is organised by MathsThroughStories.org, and it has been running every year since 2019. Since then, the competition has received entries from around 4,000 students across over 260 schools in 23 countries.

    The competition's social media hashtag is #YMSAMaths.

    Entries to this competition are due by Fri 21st March 2025 : https://www.mathsthroughstories.org/competitions.html

    Last year’s winners for our age group & runners up can be viewed here: https://www.mathsthroughstories.org/the-cindyneuschwander-award-2024.html

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  • KAAEP TALK: Going viral - the human defence against viral invaders

    This is one of our series of KAAEP Evening talks which are FREE to our students and staff, and are designed to broaden our students' horizons and raise aspirations. 

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  • KAAEP Newsletter for Christmas and Term 3

    The Academic Enrichment Newsletter lists some of the many opportunities for enrichment in our area, as well as websites to explore, recorded talks, recommended podcasts, competitions, and more. 

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  • TRINITY TALKS

    Trinity Talks offer a public platform for Trinity fellows and the broader academic community to share their latest research and thinking. Wide ranging in subject, from Brexit to poetry, and from international criminal justice to the visual arts, these highly informative and engaging talks are a chance to hear some of the leaders in their fields. 

    Trinity College is pleased to announce the launch of the third season of Events at the College – featuring a fantastic line-up of fascinating Trinity Talks on topical subjects of interest to students and the general public. The programme is open for everyone to attend – no specialist knowledge required. 

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  • KAAEP Newsletter t2 2024-25

    The King Alfred's Academy Academic Enrichment Newsletter for Term 2 has just been released! 

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  • Glow Your Own

    Glow Your Own – Six online workshops, weekly from Wednesday 9 October    Glow Your Own is a six-week online creative coding workshop which takes place October-November in partnership with our local festival, IF Oxford.  
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  • Routes into stem face-to-face, for Years 9 and 10

    ETrust are excited to let you know that they are now accepting applications for their Oxford Face to Face Routes into STEM course experience that will take place locally for our students over the upcoming half term – 29 - 31 October.

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  • Creature fest - 11th October!

    For all who are fascinated by mythological creatures as well as Dinosaurs, there is a Creature Festival at Cheney School on Friday 11th October, after school, and it is FREE. But you do need to book in advance. 

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  • COMPOS - a free online course for mathematicians and physicists in Years 10 - 13

    The University of Oxford has opened a new FREE online course for students in Years 10-13 who love maths and physics. Registration is open until 3rd  October, so don't miss out!

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  • The Dr Mark Caplen Young Writers competition

    The Dr Mark Caplen Young Writers Competition is a new event run by the Wantage Literary Festival, and it asks young people to write a review of a favourite book, film, TV show, play or podcast. There are different age categories and some great cash prizes!

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  • Chemistry cartoon competition for Years 12 and 13

    The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) are always thinking up unusual competition ideas to put students' understanding of Chemistry to the test, This is their latest offering!

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