Academic Enrichment

Designed to encourage students outside and beyond their A level subjects.

In 2020, we introduced a new programme of academic enrichment lessons into the Year 12 curriculum. Our students are spending one lesson every week away from their examination subjects, learning about areas not on their A level specifications.

Our aim is to broaden and deepen their intellectual experience and to get our sixth formers valuing different areas of learning they might not have known much about, or thought about, before. We are hoping that this will make them more informed and rounded students, thinkers, university and job applicants and people.

Mr Simon Coppell, Head of Sixth Form

Courses include:

An Introduction to Western Philosophy

The Unreliable Narrator

Facing the Past Today

Financial Analysis

A History of Western Art

Introduction to Python Programming

Medical Ethics

An Introduction to Linguistics

Portuguese for Beginners

Ancient Ideas, Modern Issues – Roman and Greek Attitudes to Issues we Still Debate Today

The Outsider in Literature Written in English

Introduction to Excel

Introduction to Book-Keeping

Computing: Networks and Security.

The course is a great change of pace from my normal lessons, I love having the opportunity to try something new that I'm interested in while expanding my skill set for the future.

Year 12 Student

In regards to Enrichment, I wanted to say that it has been very useful. My previous Enrichment course allowed me to acquire skills in Excel and Powerpoint and I have been making use of them since. Also I currently do History of Western Art and I have found it quite intriguing as I have never thought myself to be a person most interested in art, yet I have found great interest in it from joining this.

Year 12 Student

I found the Enrichment course to be an incredibly stimulating and refreshing experience. I enjoyed learning about the historical/cultural aspects of Portuguese speaking countries - in particular the literature.

Year 12 Pupil