Academic Enrichment
We want to encourage pupils’ academic inquisitiveness within and beyond their A Level subjects.
All of our Year 12 pupils take part in academic enrichment lessons as part of their curriculum. Our pupils 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.
Many Chigwell students also take the EPQ (Extended Project Qualification), for which work is usually undertaken between Christmas in Year 12 and the same point in Year 13, supported by a teacher acting as their academic mentor. The EPQ is equivalent to half an A Level. It is valued by many universities as a piece of independent research culminating in a presentation and dissertation-style essay which lays the groundwork for the more autonomous demands of an undergraduate course.
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 Williams Project
Named after Sir Bernard Williams, one of the foremost British philosophers of the 20th century, and an Old Chigwellian, The Williams Project provides opportunities for pupils to broaden and deepen their intellectual life. It encourages them to realise that thought is not divided into school subjects, and it urges them to gain such an understanding of their own specialism that they can explain its intricacies to others. This programme of academic lectures is hosted in our Sixth Form Centre and open to all pupils across the school. Each session sees a different visiting lecturer coming in to deliver a talk and open a dialogue with pupils.
Recent lectures have included:
The Dating Market Today vs A Generation Ago: An Economist’s Perspective, Dr Tomas Cvrcek (Associate Professor of Economics, UCL, SSEES)
Lisztians to Swifties: Why Music Fans matter, Professor Daniel Cavicchi (Professor of History, Psychology and Social Science, Rhode Island)
Love and Relationships in Classical Civilisation, Dr Liz Gloyn (Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London)
The Pilot
The Pilot is a magazine which features a variety of academic work and art across a broad range of interests from our talented senior school pupils.
Read The Pilot below:
