“An extremely tightlyknit group during the Spring period of Teams teaching – adversity breeding something of a siege mentality!”
Humanities Business
They may have been a small group of eight Upper Sixth Business students this year, but they were lively, engaged and enthusiastic. They certainly had a lot to live up to after excellent results in the previous two years, but despite their disrupted Lower Sixth and Upper Sixth years, the Business students performed excellently. Four out of these eight students will study Business or a related degree, such as Marketing, at university.
The 23 Lower Sixth students have been working very hard too, having done especially well during the lockdown period, maintaining their work ethic and willingness to keep progressing through the A Level course content.
students have embarked on the GCSE course with great commitment; it will be fascinating to see their GCSE results next summer - the first ever Business GCSE results at Churcher’s College. Mr R West
Classics
The popularity of all Classical subjects remains buoyant at Churcher’s, with interest and numbers high for our whole suite of Classical subjects: Latin, Classical Civilisation, Greek and Ancient History. It has been great to see such enthusiasm and interest throughout the school, despite the circumstances.
GCSE Business was launched this year, too. Our first group of Fourth Year
Miss Elson has introduced a new Greek Club working towards an Intermediate Certificate in Classical Greek open to all Third and Fourth Year Latinists. It has been great to see
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such dedication and enthusiasm to learn and also the speed with which they have picked up the language, which shares much of its grammatical base with Latin. During the Summer Term, the Fifth Year relaxed after their assessments with bridging courses in Latin and Ancient History. We took the opportunity of visiting the Nero exhibition at the British Museum to give some historical context to their set texts and visualise some of the characters and key moments of the Roman empire. On their return, pupils also researched a piece of Latin literature to present to the rest of the class, whilst the Ancient Historians researched objects from the Persian empire. Our A Level pupils in both Latin and Ancient History have all shown great passion for their subjects, with a few looking to read a Classical subject
