- Whole School Curriculum
- Faculties and Subject Curriculum
- Art & Design faculty
- Business & Economics faculty
- Careers and Personal Development faculty
- Personal Development – The Big Picture
- Skills Builder
- Careers Education and Guidance
- Start - online careers programme
- Quality in Careers Standard Award
- Careers Advice
- Careers Fair
- Careers Presentations
- Careers Websites and Further Information for students
- HGS and the Careers & Enterprise Co.
- Work Experience
- Careers Education Provider Access Policy (Baker clause)
- National Careers Week
- English faculty
- EPQ
- Humanities faculty
- Languages faculty
- Learning Support faculty
- Mathematics & Computing faculty
- PE and Sport faculty
- Performing Arts faculty
- Science faculty
- Assessment
- Extra curricular
- Careers and Personal Development
- Remote learning
- Year 9 options
EPQ
The Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) provides an opportunity for you to pursue your own academic interests in a chosen topic.
You will undertake independent research, gaining additional UCAS points for your university application and developing a range of independent research skills.
Year 12
During this one year course you will create your project which can be either a specific essay based study or the production of an ‘artefact’ (play, video, book, sculpture, photographic journal). Although this is an independent study project, you will receive support through access to a supervisor and weekly taught sessions which cover a range of study skills such as referencing, research methods and writing techniques. The EPQ is offered as a stand-alone qualification at AS and attracts a potential A grade. This valuable qualification allows you to develop useful skills for either employment or higher level study.
Examples of EPQ Project Titles
As long as you do not replicate a topic you are studying in your other A Levels you are free to be creative and choose a topic that really interests and excites you. Some examples of project titles are:
- How is architecture affected by the need to make buildings earthquake-resistant?
- To what extent is hydroelectricity the answer to meeting the European Union’s renewable energy targets?
- The Death Penalty in some American States is an infringement of Human Rights
- Is the widening income distribution gap as negative to society as it appears?
Detailed course information for the above Sixth Form courses can be found in the Sixth Form Prospectus
- Whole School Curriculum
- Faculties and Subject Curriculum
- Art & Design faculty
- Business & Economics faculty
- Careers and Personal Development faculty
- Personal Development – The Big Picture
- Skills Builder
- Careers Education and Guidance
- Start - online careers programme
- Quality in Careers Standard Award
- Careers Advice
- Careers Fair
- Careers Presentations
- Careers Websites and Further Information for students
- HGS and the Careers & Enterprise Co.
- Work Experience
- Careers Education Provider Access Policy (Baker clause)
- National Careers Week
- English faculty
- EPQ
- Humanities faculty
- Languages faculty
- Learning Support faculty
- Mathematics & Computing faculty
- PE and Sport faculty
- Performing Arts faculty
- Science faculty
- Assessment
- Extra curricular
- Careers and Personal Development
- Remote learning
- Year 9 options