Year 8 Foundation And Year 9 Higher Project Qualification Success
Congratulations on the fantastic success of our cohort this year!
The project qualifications are open to our Year 8 and 9 Scholars and High-Performance Learners, as part of the Challenge Curriculum. It provides an academic challenge requiring them to write their own title, research and critically analyse their sources, as well as writing a dissertation or creating a portfolio of work before evaluating the whole process.
Foundation Project Qualification
The Year 8s taking the Foundation Project Qualification achieved an outstanding 100% A*/A pass rate. Special mention goes to Krishan Patel and Isaac Fowle who scored full marks. Krishan’s incredible project was on whether AI is the future of healthcare, including his own primary research interviewing healthcare professionals, and Isaac considered the reasons why teenagers are reading less. Our other candidates considered a wide range of questions including:
Is pain necessary?
What are the effects of listening to music on our brain?
Is nuclear energy the answer to climate change?
Are GM crops the future of agriculture?
Could society function without laws?
Higher Project Qualification
The Year 9s taking the Higher Project Qualification achieved 100% A*-B (76% A*/A), with half of all pupils achieving the top grade. William Smith and Jay Patil both scored full marks on their projects, which earns them half a GCSE grade at A*. Jay’s project considered whether social media should be restricted to over 18s considering the effects that social media has on teenagers before reaching his conclusion. William considered is the death penalty still justified in the USA considering a range social, moral and legal arguments. Huge congratulations to all our candidates this year.
Other high scoring projects considered the following questions:
Is sleeping more important that studying?
Is killing in war justified?
Does the fashion industry do more harm than good?
Should gambling be made illegal in the UK?
Should misinformation and disinformation be banned?
Julia Lindsay
Challenge Curriculum Co-ordinator (KS3 and KS4)
