Twenty-one students from Years 7, 8 & 9 have worked extremely hard since the project commenced in October.

This group of more able students visited Jesus College in Cambridge in February, had face to face tutorials from a world class PHD tutor over the winter and wrote a dissertation (approx. 1500 words each) to answer; ‘The Anthropocene vs Deep Time: An investigation of climate change”

Comparing different eras and a multitude of data, geological & atmospheric factors, they independently and effectively researched the impact of humans on the natural world and what measures can be taken to slow climate change.

They have developed their resilience, up-skilled their critical thinking, verbal communication and essay writing, they have additionally developed their time management, their ability to work with new people, their understanding of plagiarism and copyright, how to create a bibliography and acknowledge the sources used in their research.

Our students each produced a short university level piece of work and have been awarded grades accordingly.

The Brilliant Club charity graded the work and our results were very pleasing. 5 graded 3^rd, 7 graded 2:2, 7 graded 2:1 and 2 First Class grades. GBHS students produced high quality work and when compared to The Brilliant Club national average (1800 students) the progress they demonstrated over the three month course was outstanding.

Such standards of excellence are hard won and we are truly proud of every one of them.

QUOTES FROM THE BRILLIANT CLUB

“This is a lovely cohort of students, really nice young people who have worked very hard.” Happiness ( PHD Tutor)

“It was particularly pleasing to see your pupils make significant progress in all three academic competencies (written communication, subject knowledge and critical thinking). In addition ……….impressive growth in their university knowledge and understanding.”  Adam Kerr(Scholar’s Programme administrator)

QUOTES FROM STUDENTS

“I really enjoyed The Scholar’s Programme and it’s made me want to work harder and aim for a more ambitious choice in higher education. Now it feels like a realistic goal and I’m hopeful I can challenge myself to do better.”

“The programme has helped me to understand how to be an independent learner and our tutor has given great assistance and feedback to my work.”