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Sixth Form Lecture Programme Spring Term 2018

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Date	Speaker	Title	Open to	Venue
7pm – Tuesday 16^th January	Tori James Adventurer	On Top of the World	All Sixth Form LV Form DofE & Sports Leaders Optional for UV Form DofE & Sports Leaders (UV Mocks) (Open Lecture)	Chapel
7pm – Tuesday 23^rd January	Dr Suzannah Lipscomb Historian & Broadcaster	The Mystery of Henry VIII’s Will	Sixth Form Historians and Government & Politics UV Form Historians (Open Lecture)	Chapel
Wednesday 7^th February	LVI Form Careers Conference Panel Guests	Inspiring Women	All LVI Form	Theatre
Half Term				Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 20^th February	James Shone Charity Founder	I Can and I Am	All Sixth Form Optional for Fifth Form (Open Lecture)	Chapel
7pm – Tuesday 27^th February	Dr Paul Prescott Associate Professor, English & Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick	(S)Hamlet	Sixth Form English & Drama All UV Fifth Form (Open Lecture)	Chapel
7pm – Tuesday 13^th March	Professor Dame Carol Black Principal Newnham College, Cambridge	Aspire, Explore, Discovery	All Sixth Form (Science Week) All UV Form (Open Lecture)	Chapel

Sixth Form Lecture Programme Autumn Term 2017

If you would like to attend any of the Open Lectures listed below, please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Date	Speaker	Title	Open to	Venue
6.45pm – Tuesday 12^th September	University Student Panel St Mary’s Alumnae	The Students’ Perspective	Sixth Form	Chapel
7pm – Tuesday 19^th September	Dr Adam Smith Historian & Broadcaster	The Resistible Rise of Donald Trump	Sixth Form Government & Politics and History Students Open Lecture	Chapel
6.45pm – Tuesday 3^rd October	Vanessa Arelle Art Collector & Entrepreneur	A Cultural Affair	Sixth Form Art & History of Art and UV Form Art Students Open Lecture	Chapel
7pm – Tuesday 10^th October	Dr Helen Czerski Physicist, Oceanographer & Broadcaster	The Science of Bubbles	Sixth Form Science & Geography Students and All Fifth Form Open Lecture	Chapel
Half Term
7pm - Tuesday 14^th November	Dr Miranda Mowbray Data Scientist	Cybersecurity: keeping ahead of the bad guys	Sixth Form Mathematics Students and All UV Form Open Lecture	Chapel
7pm – Tuesday 28^th November	Professor Michael Finus Environmental Economist	Obstacles of a Successful Climate Agreement: Can We Avoid Disaster?	Sixth Form Economics & Geography Students and UV Geographers Open Lecture	Chapel
7pm – Tuesday 5^th December	Charlotte Dujardin CBE British Dressage Rider	An Interview with Charlotte Dujardin: The Girl on the Dancing Horse	Sixth Form and Sports Scholars & Riders Open Event	Chapel

Sixth Form Lecture Programme Autumn Term 2016

If you would like to attend any of the ‘Open Lectures’ below, please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Date	Speaker	Title	Open to	Venue
6pm - Tuesday 13^th September	University Information Evening	Your Degree, Your Future	All Sixth Form & Visiting Schools	Theatre
7pm - Tuesday 20^th September	Dr Neta Spiro Music Psychology & Music Therapy	Music in Mind	All Sixth Form Music, Science & Psychology Pupils (Fifth Form Welcome) (Open Lecture )	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 4^th October	Alex Hibbert Polar Explorer, Author & Photographer	Icebergs & Polar Eskimos: a young traveller's journeys in the Arctic	All Sixth Form (Fifth Form Welcome) (Open Lecture )	Chapel
Half Term
7pm - Tuesday 8^th November	Sue Cunningham Photojournalist	In the Heart of Brazil	All Fifth & Sixth Form Geographers (Open Lecture )	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 22^ndNovember	Arabella Dorman Portrait Painter & War Artist	Art & War	All Fifth & Sixth Form Art & History of Art Pupils (Open Lecture )	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 29^th November	Dr Zoe Laughlin The Institute of Making, UCL	Performing Matter	All Fifth & Sixth Form Science, Art & History of Art Pupils (Open Lecture)	Chapel
7pm – Tuesday 6^th December	Sir Francis Richards	Bletchley Park: From Enigma to D-Day and Beyond	All Sixth Form (Fifth Form Welcome) (Open Lecture )	Chapel

Sixth Form Lecture Programme Spring Term 2017

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Date	Speaker	Title	Open to	Venue
1.45pm - Wednesday 18th January	Dr Gemma Blackshaw Art Historian	What is History of Art and Why Does it Matter?	All Fifth Form Artists & All Sixth Form History of Art/Artists (Open Lecture )	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 24th January	Dr Michael Scott Academic, Author & Broadcaster	Gritty Realities of Ancient Greece	All Fifth Form Classicists & All Sixth Form (Open Lecture)	Chapel
9.30am - Wednesday 8th February	LVI Form Careers Conference	Inspiring Women	LVI Form Pupils (School Only)	Theatre
Half Term
7pm - Tuesday 21st February	James Holland Writer, Broadcaster & WW2 Historian	The War in the West	All Fifth & Sixth Form Historians (Open Lecture)	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 28th February	Dr Denis Alexander Emeritus Professor, The Faraday Institute	Science & Religion	All Sixth Form Religious Studies/Scientists & All Fifth Form (Open Lecture)	Chapel
7pm - Monday 13th March	Professor Alice Roberts Anatomist, Author & Broadcaster	The Human Journey	All Fifth & Sixth Form (Open Lecture)	Chapel

Sixth Form Lecture Programme Spring Term 2016

Date	Speaker	Title	Open to	Venue
7pm - Tuesday 19th January	Dr Jane Lees-Millais GP & Medical Research Ethical Committee	Medical Research Ethics	Fifth & Sixth Form	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 26th January (Open Lecture)	Guest Panel	Career Opportunities in the World of Art & Design	Fifth & Sixth Form Artists	Chapel
Half Term
7pm - Tuesday 23rd February (Open Lecture)	Iwan Lewis and Olivia Brereton, StageSmart. A musical showcase featuring West End stars and St Mary's senior singers	The West End comes to Calne	Fourth, Fifth & Sixth Form Musicians/Scholars & Drama & Theatre Studies' pupils	Chapel
All Day - Wednesday 2nd March	LVI Form Careers Conference	Inspiring Women	LVI Form
7pm - Tuesday 15th March (Open Lecture)	Philip Dalton Award-winning Natural History film producer		Sixth Form (UIV & Fifth Form girls also welcome to attend)	Chapel

Sixth Form Lecture Programme Spring Term 2015

Date	Speaker	Title	Open To	Venue
7pm - Tuesday 13th January 2015	Alex Simpson Fast Row West	A record-breaking journey across the Indian Ocean	Fifth Form & Sixth Form, parents & guests	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 20th January 2015	Major Kate Philp	A South Pole Adventure Walking with the Wounded	UV Form & Sixth Form, parents & guests	Chapel
7pm - Friday 6th February 2015	Jung Chang International Best-Selling Author	Bringing Chinese History to Life	Fifth Form & Sixth Form, parents & guests	Chapel
Half Term
Wednesday 25th February 2015	LVI Form Careers Conference Chaired by Lynne Copp	Inspiring Women	LVI Form	Theatre

Sixth Form Lecture Programme Autumn Term 2015

Date	Speaker	Title	Open to	Venue
7pm - Tuesday 15th September 2015	Sue Garrett Student Recruitment Manager, University of Bath	The UCAS Application Process, Courses & Finance	Sixth Form	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 22nd September (Open Lecture)	David Edwards Traveller, adventurer, geographer & environmentalist	Montserrat: surviving the volcano	Fifth & Sixth Form Geographers	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 6th October (Open Lecture)	Dan Snow Historian	Years Ending '15, a Wealth of Anniversaries	Fifth Form & Sixth Form Historians	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 13th October (Open Lecture)	Robert Gardner Chief Economist, Nationwide Building Society	The UK Housing Market and the Value of Economics	Sixth Form Economists & Mathematicians (plus any interested UV Form)	Chapel
Half Term
7pm - Tuesday 3rd November (Open Lecture)	Professor Frances Ashcroft Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford	The Spark of Life - Electricity in the Human Body	Sixth Form Scientists (plus any interested UV Form)	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 10th November (Open Lecture)	Charlie Hall John Hall Venice	Peggy Guggenheim	Fifth & Sixth Form Artists, Art Historians & prospective Gap Year students	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 1st December	Javier Gonzalez Lecturer in Human Physiology, University of Bath	Sports Nutrition	Fifth & Sixth Form Team players, Sports Scholars in all year groups and all other girls are welcome to attend	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 8th December (Open Lecture)	Alastair Humphreys National Geographic Adventurer	The Call of the Wild	Fifth & Sixth Form Geographers and all Sixth Form	Chapel

Sixth Form Lecture Programme Spring Term 2014

Date	Speaker	Title		Venue
7pm - Tuesday 14th January 2014	Dr Sarah Fane OBE, Afghan Connection	Afghanistan: a perspective on the country through the eyes of a Medic and Charity Director	Sixth Form Open to Fifth Form & Parents	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 21st January 2014	Gill Bennett OBE, Historian	Six Moments of Crisis: Inside British Foreign Policy	Sixth Form Open to UV Form & Parents	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 28th January 2014	Professor Stuart Burgess, Professor of Engineering Design University of Bristol	The Design and Origin of Man	Sixth Form Open to UV Form & Parents	Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 4th February 2014	Leon McCarron, Adventurer & Cameraman	Travels with my camera	Sixth Form Open to Fifth Form & Parents	Chapel

Wednesday 12th February 2014	Careers Conference	Inspiring Women	LVI Form	Theatre
7pm Tuesday 18th March 2014	Andy MacKay, Art History Abroad	Shock of the New and introduction to Modernism	Sixth Form Open to UV Form & Parents	Chapel

Sixth Form Lecture Programme Autumn Term 2014

Date	Speaker	Title	Open to ...	Venue
6pm - Thursday 11th September 2014	GSA Futures Evening University Admission & Student Representatives	University: Your Degree, Your Future	Sixth Form & Visiting GSA Schools	Theatre
7pm - Tuesday 16th September 2014	James Gray MP	The Scottish Referendum	Sixth Form Open to UV Form, parents & guests	School Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 7th October 2014	Professor A C Grayling Author & Philosopher	The Importance of the Humanities	Sixth Form Open to UV Form, parents & guests	School Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 14th October 2014	Carole Seymour-Jones Biographer & Historian	She Landed by Moonlight The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington, 'the real Charlotte Grey'	Sixth Form Open to UV Form, parents & guests	School Chapel
HALF TERM		HALF TERM		HALF TERM
7pm - Tuesday 4th November 2-14	Trio Paradis	Women of WW1: a tribute in music, words and images (including performances by the St Mary's Opera Ensemble)	Sixth Form Open to UV Form, parents & guests	School Chapel
7pm Tuesday 11th November 2014	Roya Nikkhah Journalist & Broadcaster	The World of Journalism	Sixth Form Open to UV Form, parents & guests	School Chapel
7pm - Tuesday 2nd December 2014	The Rt Hon The Lord Butler of Brockwell Former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service	Spying	Sixth Form Open to UV Form, parents & guests	School Chapel

Sixth Form Lecture Programme Autumn Term 2013

Date	Speaker	Title	Form
7pm - Tuesday 10th September 2013	David Stoll, European Officer University of Aberdeen	Studying in Scotland and a Guide to Making University Applications	Sixth Form
7pm - Tuesday 17th September 2013	Eva Rice, Author, Musician & St Mary's Calne Girl	A Writer's Tale	Fifth & Sixth Form & Parents
7pm - Tuesday 1st October 2013	Michael Caulfield, Sports Psychologist	The Winning Mindset	Fifth & Sixth Form & Parents
7pm - Tuesday 8th October 2013	Dr Aidan Dodson, Egyptologist	The World of Egyptology	Fifth & Sixth Form & Parents
7pm - Tuesday 15th October 2013	Lieutenant Colonel Judith Dando, Territorial Army Officer & Full Time Reservist	A Woman in a Man's World	UV & Sixth Form
Half Term
7pm - Tuesday 5th November 2013	James Elles, Member of the European Parliament	The European Union - What Next?	Sixth Form & Parents

7pm - Tuesday 19th November 2013	The Venerable Ruth Worsley, Archdeacon of Wiltshire	Women and the Church	UV & Sixth Form & Parents
7pm - Tuesday 26th November 2013	Court Room Role-Play, Chaired by Sarah Smith	Inside the Court Room: Civil & Criminal Cases	UV & Sixth Form
7pm - Tuesday 3rd December 2013	Anne Sebba, Biographer, Lecturer & Journalist	That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor	UV & Sixth Form & Parents

Sixth Form Lecture Programme: Spring Term 2013

Date	Speaker	Title	Form
7pm - Wednesday 9th January 2013	Charles Hall: John Hall Venice	The development of the 'Venetian School' of painting with particular reference to G Bellini & Titian	Sixth Form History of Art Pupils
7pm - Tuesday 15th January 2013	Alex Norman: Author and authority on Tibetan Culture	The Secret Lives of the Dalai Lama	Sixth Form Parents & Guests
7pm - Tuesday 22nd January 2013	Timothy Good: UFO Expert & Researcher	UFOs and the Alien Presence	Fifth & Sixth Form Parents & Guests
7pm - Tuesday 29th January 2013	James Borrell: Biologist and Expedition Scientist	A man on a mission to save our endangered species	Fifth & Sixth Form Parents & Guests
7pm - Tuesday 5th February 2013	Lynne Copp: The Worklife Company	Women in Leadership	Lower Sixth Form
Half Term
All day - Friday 22nd February 2013	Panel discussions & breakout sessions	Careers Conference	Lower Sixth Form

Sixth Form Lecture Programme: Autumn Term 2012

Date	Speaker	Title	Form
7pm - Tuesday 11th September 2012	Lorraine Norman Undergraduate Recruitment University of Bristol	Getting into a Competitive University Expert advice on the Admissions process	Sixth Form
7pm - Tuesday 18th September 2012	Dr Margaret Griffin & Commander Richard Dean	Building a Girls’ Boarding House in Southern Sudan	Fifth & Sixth Form
1.40pm - Friday 21st September 2012	Student Panel	University Life The Students’ Perspective	Sixth Form & Parents
12.30pm - Friday 28th September 2012	Nick & Diane Lowe	Fight Like A Girl	Parent Talk
7pm - Tuesday 9th October 2012	Milly Whitehead The Leap	Gap Years and Internships	Sixth Form
Half Term
7pm - Tuesday 30th October 2012	Rob Lilwall Adventurer & Author	Walking Home from Mongolia	Fifth & Sixth Form & Parents

7pm - Tuesday 20th November 2012	Jo Royle Ocean Explorer and Marine Campaigner	Raising Ocean Ecosystem Awareness Worldwide	Fifth & Sixth Form & Parents
11.45pm - Friday 23rd November 2012	Milly Whitehead The Leap	Gap Years and Internships	Parent Talk
7pm - Tuesday 27th November 2012	Alastair Hignell CBE Former Sportsman and BBC Sports Commentator	When the Goalposts Shift	Fifth & Sixth Form & Parents
7pm - Tuesday 4th December 2012	Dr Suzannah Lipscomb Historian, Author and Broadcaster	A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England	Sixth Form & Parents

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