London trip, Whats on

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CAS, EFIA and TBGS gathering

This photo will always remind me to carry a camera around, this is from my phone camera , again. A great shot though, that one day we hopefully can point at and say I was there when we started something between our two sixth forms/ schools. Lets see what develops here....But if and when we meet up again can we all extend a courteous welcome and reciprocate with our new friends. I hope Janet, Vivianne, Karl, Silje, Boris, Sofia and Dina enjoyed the lunch and be acknowledged (including 5 house points each) for being Ambassadors for EFIA Torquay/Devon.

TOK Presentations

This was Valerias cartoon strip used to demonstrate her TOK question today in an excellent presentation on understanding fate. As she pointed out " the man who will drown will never be hanged" a nice connection with Russian folklore. Can you see in the cartoon the two possible paths, look closely at the events that unfold depending upon choices made, or choices guided by fate?!

Also Max Dota attempted to question whether all lifes happiness ends up as zero? This was based on the following Vietnamese model by Huu hung:






The red horizontal line is a time line and the large sine waves above and below represent times of happiness (above the line) and times of sadness (below). In the end the theory is that it all balances out and happiness = 0. The clever question posed was, should you live your life close to the horizontal line or experience highs of sadness and happiness? The accompanying cartoon strip featured a monk in panel 3, this was demonstrated as a lifestyle along the line...zero happiness, zero sadness. Very smart. And thank you to all who presented today - there was lots of great thinking and everyone did very well. Thanks also for getting involved in all the questions and answers, debate and argument. Great TOK!

London trip

The tickets are booked for the train to London. We depart at 7:30 am from Torquay Station of Friday morning 29th January. It's an early start but it will give us an extra day in the capital if we arrive nice and early. You can also sleep on the train. A big bit of advice though - bring your own breakfast as the food on the train might be boring, cold and expensive! We change at Newton Abbot so watch for that, we are all sitting together so if you fall asleep you should be spotted!

The aim of the trip is to demonstrate how you can have a fun weekend away in London, how to travel and stay in the city safely. On the Friday after arrival we will head to Russel square and spend some time at the British Museum, some of you may wish to find the Fulbright ~(US Universities) office, I will show you where it is at. Friday night will be an optional West End show and the plan at the moment is Wicked - this is the story of the prequel to the Wizard of Oz. See me as soon as you can if interested in going to this show.

Saturday we will take the tube to the tower of London and after some time at Tower Bridge will walk along the embankment to the London eye. From here we can see Parliament and Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and then walk to Buckingham Palace. Bring comfortable shoes for walking!

Well done Paula for suggesting we do this trip, it should be great fun and one we will do every year.