1. Week B – LC, CLP, LMD, TMR, CHV, MGN

2. Opportunities After-school lecture in SFC1 on Monday 8 February by Dr Rafael Yanez of Royal Holloway University of London on gene therapy and Duchenne’s – ideal for students interested in medical and biomedical sciences. Culture Club – still a few tickets for The Magic Flute by Mozart at English National Opera on Thursday 25 February. University of London Taster Days – there are still spaces available on a number of University of London Taster Days, so visit www.london.ac.uk/tasters for details. www.london.ac.uk/tasters

3. Opportunities The University of Bath is offering Summer Schools in Science and Engineering and in Social Sciences. There are some eligibility criteria - these include things like home postcode, or parents' occupation or whether parents went to university, but you only to meet one of these. See Mrs Longman for more details (and visit http://go.bath.ac.uk/summer-schools).http://go.bath.ac.uk/summer-schools University of Liverpool in London Modern Languages Taster, 9 March. You can sign up for either a morning or afternoon session here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/schools/events/mlc/ https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/schools/events/mlc/ Politics and Irish Studies Taster, 10 March. You can sign up for either a morning or afternoon session here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/schools/events/politics/ https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/schools/events/politics/

4. Knowledge and intelligence

5. Why are human beings intelligent? There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties. Why is her pre- frontal cortex bigger than mine? I talk!

6. What do you think you should know by the time you leave school next year? Make a list of the sort of things you think you will need to know. This may lead you to think about what knowledge actually is.

7. Are you thinking in terms of skills?