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Celebrating Art Centre Excellence 2022
QMC’s very own Performing Arts Centre of Excellence is celebrating! Several of our students from across Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts courses have been offered places on highly competitive courses, at a number of prestigious and highly sought after destinations. This video showcases just some of the students who are destined for great success…
Our 2022 Peer Mentors
Our 2022 Peer Mentors have successfully completed their training in Basic Counselling Skills and Mental Health Awareness and were presented with their Certificates by Lucy Poynter, Director of SEND and Wellbeing. Lucy thanked them for their commitment and enthusiasm for this vital work. No appointment needed – just drop in and speak to them. Availability:…
Physiotherapy Workshop
Last week Ben Goldbold, Lead Physiotherapist for Southhampton FC, Women & Girls, provided a useful insight into careers in Physiotherapy within the NHS, pathways into them and the skills needed to work with people. Throughout the workshop students had a go at using a spinal board and they also examined the contents of a Physio’s…
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!
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…
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 Day 2 “Very wet and windy last…
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…
