Familiarise yourself with the Apps Google Arts and Culture and the Art Story.
Attend a Summer School Art Programme run by a specialist Art university.
Take up a 30 day drawing challenge or A Drawing a Day for a Year.
Such as Inktober or Portrait Challenge.
Start a Sketchbook Circle with your peers or teachers. Every month, switch and respond to the work made by the previous person.
Follow galleries and artists on social media so you know about current exhibitions, projects and workshops
Borrow a book from the Art Library on a specialism you want to explore further eg. Lithography, Photographers’ Sketchbooks, Intaglio printing, Acrylic painting.
Research and find out what English language theatre groups and writers are active in Luxembourg. Pick one and go and see a performance or reading.
Write a short descriptive story to share with younger students
Watch episodes on HENI Talks
Attend Open Days for University or Foundation degree courses.
Use Photo editing Apps such as Snapseed, Photoshop Mix and Adobe Draw to enhance your photography and explore digital drawing.
Read the subscriptions in the Art Department such as Frieze magazine, Aesthetica, Crafts and Art Monthly to keep up to date with the Art World.
Watch Human Planet and explain influences humans have upon the ecosystem www.imdb.com/title/tt1806234/
Visit the National History Museum, London www.nhm.ac.uk/
Participate in the LUGA initiatives and write a reflection www.luga.lu/en/agenda/
Make a revision quiz on Kahoot or Socrative! for a topic and ask to use it in class
Review an article or an experiment from the www.rsb.org.uk/
Biology
Discover the adaptations of an interesting species www.inaturalist.org/
Participate in DNA essay competitions www.ashg.org/dna-day/ www.dnaday.eu/
Read the book ‘On the Origin of Species’ by Charles Darwin Visit www.gredoscentre.com.
Review an article from New Scientist
Read 3 articles on current discoveries in Science www.iflscience.com/
Design an experiment to investigate a variable influencing the rate of photosynthesis
Watch ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie’ by Richard Dawkins
Visite the Cite des Sciences et de l’industrie, Paris www.cite-sciences.fr
Research a well-known PLC and present a report to the class
Watch an episode of ‘Dragons Den’ on YouTube
Arrange a work experience in a local business ‘Marketing 4.0: Moving from Traditional to Digital’ by Philip Kotler
Listen to a business-related podcast, and post a review of it on our Team
Lead a revision session for your class on your favourite Business topic
Make a revision quiz on Powerpoint or Kahoot! for a topic and ask to use it in class
Look at the business news on the BBC News website www.bbc.com/news/business
Read a newspaper article about a business issue and create a short synopsis
Bank of England www.bankofengland.co.uk
Watch a TED Talk about Entrepreneurs
Research a stock market https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/ ‘Emotional Intelligence’ by Daniel Goleman .
Read the Business Review
Research a stock market https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/
The path to Nuclear Fission: the story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn
Virtual tour “Turn back the Clock” https://thebulletin.org/virtualtour/
Join the group Compound Interest and review one of their articles
Make a revision quiz on Kahoot or Socrative! for a topic and ask to use it in class
Review an article or an experiment from the RSC www.rsc.org/
Chemistry
Watch the documentary “about the science and chemistry of metals” www.youtube.com/
The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love… Sam Kean
Find out what are the developments to the Lithium-Ion battery that won the Nobel prize in 2019
Write a short descriptive story to share with younger students
Design an experiment with household products to explain a concept studied in Y12
Write an essay about the role of women in Chemistry
Cite des Sciences et de l’industrie, Paris www.cite-sciences.fr
Read 3 articles on current discoveries in Chemistry www.iflscience.com/
Read ‘Stuff Matters’ by Mark Miodownik
Get a tweet recognised by an influential scientist
Need Python Support?
Try this series of 67 tutorials that will take you right from the beginning to advanced Python programming https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=hEgO047GxaQ
Learn
Coding
Develop your programming skills by challenging yourself to complete as many tasks as you can, from Recursion to Java: https://www.codecademy.com/
In Code: Charles Petzold
Read this book In Code, author Charles Petzold asks the question: What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers?
Learn about University Courses
Not sure what a university Computer science degree involves? Check out this information from Manchester University for their BSc Computer Science: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/st udy/undergraduate/courses/2020 /00560/bsc-computerscience/course-details/#courseprofile
Computer Science
How does A.I function?
Give this simulation a try to help you understand how A.I. learn, grow and communicates: A.I.
In Code: Charles Petzold
Read this book In Code, author Charles Petzold asks the question: What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers?
Develop your C++ or Java programming skills with these tutorials, languages used by many University courses and employers https://www.learncpp.com/cpptutorial/a-few-common-cppproblems/ https://www.learnjavaonline.org/
Choosing a university for Computer Science:
This league table for 2020 gives information on the best universities for Computer Science https://www.thecompleteuniversit yguide.co.uk/leaguetables/rankings/computer-science
A Computer that works like a brain: Kwabena Boahen
Watch the Ted Talk on why Computers could be reconfigured to work like a human brain: https://www.ted.com/talks/kwabena_boahe n_a_computer_that_works_like_the_brain?la nguage=en
Computer Museum at the faculty of Computer Science, Stuttgart
Plan a visit to the Computer Museum Universitaet Stuttgart, Institut fuer Softwaretechnologie Universitaetsstrasse 38, 70569 Stuttgart
How to get there: by train or car, open every Tuesday afternoon by appointment http://computermuseum.informatik.unistuttgart.de/
Where it all started
Watch the Ted Talk by Kevin Slavin on how Algorithms run our lives https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how _algorithms_shape_our_world
IBM: Quantum Computing
Read through this IBM site all about Quantum computing to be aware of the next steps in the evolution of Computers: https://www.ibm.com/quantumcomputing/learn/what-is-quantumcomputing/
Drama
Using Youtube, find amateur productions that are contemporaneous to what you are working on for contextual research.
Join an amateur theatre company outside of school such as ‘New World’.
Perform a monologue from a Shakespeare piece. Consider how your character is feeling and understand why.
Create a Chair Duet, based on the work by Frantic Assembly perform it in an unusual location, film it and share it using Teams. Produce a guide about the ten best texts you have ever read.
Design a costume on paper for any character from a play you have watched. Think about appropriate materials, colours and sizes that represent something about the character.
Apply for work experience in a professional theatre to see the working of the industry from the inside.
Through a discussion with your teacher, organise a flash mob in school to demonstrate something you have been working on in lesson and a lunch time.
Write a short review of one piece of work you have performed, focusing on how adjustment of technical theatre could enhance the performance.
Write a ‘Character profile’ for a character from a play you have created answering the 101 questions here http://www.angelfire.com/art/ YPW/101questions.html
Attend a professional show locally to see how the industry operates in a wider sense.
Watch any movie that has come from being a play and assess how it has changed from page, to stage, to screen.
Operate the lighting and sound desks in Zinnen theatre to assist with technical theatre in a small show for other students.
Watch one of the following films: The Big Short, Laundromat, Freakeconomics, Inside Job
Go and visit either: Bank of England, EU Commission (Brussels), ECB (Frankfurt)
Lead a revision session for your class on your favourite Economics topic
Work Experience/Summer Placements: Approach financial institutions for summer work/placements.
Make a revision quiz on Powerpoint or Kahoot! for a topic and ask to use it in class
Economics
Listen to a Economics podcast https://www.intelligenteconomist. com/economics-podcasts/
Enter an Economics Competitions: 1. The Marshall Society (Cambridge University Economic Society) essay/article competition
2.Young Economist Essay Competition run by the Royal Economic Society 3.Generation euro student awards
Research a developing, emerging and a developed country and compare standards of living https://www.worldometers.info/w orld-population/population-bycountry/ https://oec.world/en/profile/count ry/blr/
Organise a team to compete in the Generation Euro competition
Watch episodes on the Economist YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channe l/UC0p5jTq6Xx_DosDFxVXnWaQ
Read a newspaper article from the Economist and write a short synopsis
Ted talks – research a particular Economic theme and watch a video. Write a short synopsis https://www.ted.com/talks
Attend one of the LSE’s free lectures and write up what you learnt. https://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/ events-and-seminars/publiclectures
Choose a book to read from the “reading list”. Write a short summary of what you have learnt
Read the Economics Review and write a synopsis of what you have learnt
Have a look at the shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize. Buy one and read it. Write a review of it.
Research a text you have studied and its context. Find out more about the music, drama, art and history of that period.
Watch and read ‘Hamlet’ in preparation for year 13.
Enter a writing competition of your choice – get your teacher to proofread your work and help you with the entry.
Enter the Cobis Poetry Competition. Ask your teacher for details.
English
Keep a scrapbook of interesting articles or books you have read.
Read one newspaper or magazine article every day. Summarise what the articles are about briefly.
Read some of the critical articles on the texts you have studied on this website:
Read at least one other text by an author you are studying
Look for a book from a context that you have never read anything from before – e.g. Asia, Africa, South America
Set up a channel on your English class team for ‘text of the week’. Share a poem, play, book or article you have read as ‘read of the week’ with your class. Get others to share their reading as well.
Watch a film version or drama production of a text you are studying.
‘Complete at least the Bronze reading challenge.
Visit the Royal Geographical Society website and find out how to become a Geography Ambassador.
When you take a trip/holiday make notes/take photos of the impacts of tourists and the management in place there.
Download and listen to a podcast from BBC4 ‘From our own correspondent podcast’.
Read ‘Radical Cities’ By Justin McGuirk.
Select the hardest past paper essay question you can find, answer it and submit it – all without use of the mark scheme.
Geography
Watch a Congo: A journey to the heart of darkness to understand more about this fascinating and troubled country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=43xTvpxWLW4
‘Read ‘The Lure of the City’ By Various.
Visit the Smithsonian volcano website to keep informed about current eruptions https://volcano.si.edu/
Read ‘The Progress of this Storm’ By Andreas Malm.
Download the ‘World Factbook’ App to have a world of statistics at your fingertips.
Read ‘Alpha City’ By Rowland Atkinson.
Write an essay for the Royal Geographical Society annual competition.
Watch a TEDTalk about sustainability.
Read ‘The New Urban Question’ By Andy Merrifield..
Watch and review ‘Blood Diamond’ a film about civil war and the battle to control resources in Sierra Leone.
The Last Emperor
Read: ‘Thatcher’s Britain by Richard Vinen, from the Challenge Library
Watch and Read: Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain (2007), from the Challenge Library
Read ‘Radical Cities’ By Justin McGuirk.
Create timelines on both of your topic
History
Listen to a pod cast on China. For example:
In Our Time – BBC Radio 4 –Boxer Rebellion
http://www.bbc.co.uk/progra mmes/b00j4hmv
‘Watch: A film from the Mr Burrowes Britain Film list
Make a revision quiz on Powerpoint or Kahoot! for a topic and ask to use it in class isit the Smithsonian volcano website to keep informed about current eruptions https://volcano.si.edu/
Read: ‘White Heat’ by Dominic Sandbrook, from the Challenge Library
Watch a Century of Revolution https://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=I5cl0GjPjy4
Read 'Crisis? What Crisis?' tells the story of Britain in the 1970s by Alwynn W. Turner
Enter a Year 12 essay writing competition – See the Humanities board and Teams
Watch a documentary on the Great Leap Forward https://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=kdCgIHgu-KE
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China – Jung Chang
The Golden Ratio
What is it? What is the link to the Fibonacci sequence? Where is it found in nature? What is phi: is it irrational? Is it transcendental?
Mind your Ps and Qs
Refine your understanding of logical implication and the allimportant ⇒ and ⇔ symbols. https://nrich.maths.org/6382
Gauss and Germain
Watch this lecture on the two mathematicians and some of their work.
Read the details on this prominent court case. Why did the jury wrongly convict? What were the statistical errors? What does this tell you about statistics?
Numerical Methods
Learn about the following methods used to approximate roots of equations: the difference of sign method, the iteration method, and the NewtonRaphson's method.
Mathematics
An Evening with Leonhard Euler
A lecture on one of the greatest ever mathematicians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=h-DV26x6n_Q
The Millennium Prize Problems
Research what these are. Which have been solved? What are Hilbert’s problems from 1900?
Binomial Expansion
How do you expand a binomial which has a fractional power?
Degrees, Radians and Gradians
Research these different angular units. What is the history behind them? What are the advantages/disadvantages of each?
Rearrange the statements in the proof showing that the root of 2 is irrational.
https://nrich.maths.org/1404
Ellipses and hyperbola
Learn about Cartesian and parametric equations for these conics.
The Queen of Mathematics
Watch this lecture on prime numbers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=lzyWL1LTlq4
Why is 0! = 1?
Watch this video by Eddie Woo to find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=X32dce7_D48
Further Differentiation
Learn how to differentiate using the product rule, the quotient rule, and the chain rule.
Research Evariste Galois
Read the details on this prominent court case. Why did the jury wrongly convict? What were the statistical errors? What does this tell you about statistics?
AS French: Research social trends or issues in France in the last 10 years. What main changes have been introduced and how did society react?
Visit or research a town/city in Germany or France and describe it briefly. If you visit take photos of the most interesting places.
Listen to a French radio station for one hour a day (1 week).
Ex. L’essentiel, RTL France, NRJ, RFM, Fun Radio, France info.
Find a famous French/German actor or actress and write a short presentation of them. Afterwards watch a film where they appear.
Watch a documentary on the channel ARTE linked to one French/German event or period in History. www.arte.fr / www.arte.de
Watch one newsflash daily (1 week) on French or German TV and summarise in 2-3 line(s) two of the issues mentioned.
‘Go and watch a French play at the TOL or TNL.
www.theatres.lu
Go to the local cinema and watch a film in French/German (with subtitles in English).
https://kinepolis.lu/fr
Research how France or Germany is fighting inequality? Any major changes in law recently?
AS French: Write an essay 300350 words on the impact or influence of French culture around the world.
Read a novel in the target language (book not studied in class) and write a summary of 120150 words.
Produce a short video or audio podcast on one cultural aspect/tradition in France or Germany.
Borrow one French/German film from our library and write a short review on it.
Visit the BibliothèqueNationalein Kirchberg and find out how to borrow books. www.bnl.lu
Watch and review ‘Blood Diamond’ a film about civil war and the battle to control resources in Sierra Leone.
Music
Enter yourself for Grade 5 or 6 Theory.
Research an area of interest to publish in the school newsletter.
Watch a performance of the Rite of Spring
Use Auralia regularly to help train your listening skills.
Listen to Radio 3 or Classic FM. Go to a concert at the Philharmonie or Conservatoire.
Listen to two different composers from the same era and compare and contrast.
Make a playlist of the 10 most important works for your first instrument or voice tape and listen to as many versions as possible. Can you learn all of them?
Apply for a summer school or workshop over the summer. There are lots of online courses on www.futurelearn .com/courses.
Arrange parts for a school group to improve Help organise in school concerts. Join a Music club.
Set up a lunchtime concert.
Watch an opera screening at the cinema such as MET live.
Audition for an AMIS ensemble or for a European Youth Orchestra or Chorus.
Read the Journal of Applied Physiology, Sport and Society online.
Icarus (2017) Bryan Fogel, Netflix. Take a coaching award in your favourite sport
An internationally famous sports venue ‘A live sports match or tournament in Luxembourg/Europe.
Write a glossary of anatomy and physiology used in your sport.
Listen to a range of sports podcasts to widen your interest in a range of sports
Read the Journal of Sport and Exercise Physiology online.
Organise a House sports competition.
Keep a training log for one month BBC One PanoramaCatch Me If You Can (2015)
Perform regularly for a school/community sports club.
Volunteer to help coach in PE lessons or an after school sports club.
Read a sports biography/autobiography
Research the history of your favourite sport.
Politics
Help organize future MUN events. Access free FinancialTimes subscriptions for current affairs.
Take part in trips to meet and question elected politicians and party workers.
Explore alternative news sources for broader perspectives.
Contribute journalism or interviews to the B122Showon Radio Ara.
Read global politics periodicals like TheEconomistand New Internationalist
Read monthly PoliticsMagazine issues written for students. Participate in a ModelUnited Nations(MUN)as a delegate for a country other than your own.
Listen to politics podcasts (e.g., TheGuardianPoliticsPodcast). esearch and find out what English language theatre groups and writers are active in Luxembourg. Pick one and go and see a performance or reading.
Watch educational videos and live PMQs on the UK Parliament’s YouTube channel.
Go to you tube, type in ‘insight learning’ and find an experiment to demonstrate how animals learn
Visit a museum to explore more about evolutionary psychology linked to the Biological topic
Listen to some podcasts on various topics in psychology https://podcastle.ai/blog/bestpsychology-podcasts/
Read a Psychology Review magazine and write a summary of an article
Produce a piece of display work depicting a psychological theme of your choice
Psychology
Create an origami that shows different parts of the brain and what their functions are
‘Make a podcast (3 minute) on a psychological topic of your choice
