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Series of subject based seminars aimed at the Gifted and
Talented in each year group. Those holding academic awards
have to attend: others come at the suggestion of subject
teachers.
Departments take it in turns to stage these. Some reading
material is usually made available in the previous week,
so that it is not merely a staff-led presentation. Teachers
select something within their subject area but which is
beyond or simply not on the syllabus. For instance, Year
11 History was on Ket's Rebellion - the idea was to use
that to get the pupils to make some deductions about Tudor
England. Year 13 Classics looked at Virgil's Aeneid and
what it told us about the politics of that period. Some
are deliberately cross-curricular: an English seminar on
Nationalism looked not only at literary texts but also at
composers such as Sibelius and Smetana, and this was Year
9!
There are two meetings per term in Yrs 9 and 10, three
in Y11, four in Yrs 12 and 13. In Yrs 7 and 8, the sessions
are not subject-based: they are on open-ended questions,
broadly philosophical in nature, to get the pupils used
to the idea that there are topics with no answers!
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