Page 2 - Malvern Times - October 2018

MALVERN TIMES PAGE 2
Academic successes continued Marshall Society Essay Competition
Hanna Gesang was awarded 7th place on the short-list of the top entries nationally for the Marshall Society Essay Competition 2018. The Marshall Society is the Economics Society of Cambridge University and Hanna’s topic “To what
extent is it in the United States’ interest to initiate a “trade war” with China?” was one of the most robust and well written essays entered for this competition.
Honorary Academic Scholarships
or Exhibitions
We are pleased to announce that a number of pupils have been awarded Honorary Academic Scholarships or Exhibitions following the results of the GCSE examinations (and re-marks). Such awards are made to those who are not already recipients of scholarships and, in general, recognise the scholarly approach of these pupils over the past years. They do not carry a financial advantage, but are regarded as prestigious within the school and are important in terms of applications to university and in later life. Well done to the following:
ACADEMIC SCHOLARS: Jess Biddle, Imogen Cole, Evyanne Ewusie, Bonnie Green, Miki Huang, Helen Rose, Lucy Shorter, Lili Solbach, Elisa Solvay, Ludo Staley, Ethan Zhao and Jennifer Zhou.
ACADEMIC EXHIBITIONERS: Hannah Atkinson, Adriaan Berger, Kyl-Linn Liew, Jonathan Mather, Natsumi Nakamura, Jasper Penrice, Siima Rukandema, Alexander Schulz, Richard Soares and Esther Woods.
Outstanding A level achievement
We also recently received news that Miranda Bruce, one of last year’s Upper Sixth students, achieved the highest marks in the AQA A level Geography Paper 2 which was taken in the summer. There were 13,500 candidates and so Miranda’s success reflects extremely well on her ability as well as on the support of her teachers.
Collaborative learning
I spoke to the school recently about the notion of collaboration – one of the Malvern Qualities. To quite a large extent, schools should provide a training for university study and the workplace. Collaborative learning implies the act of working with others to achieve a certain outcome. It implies cooperation and a partnership with others that young people will find important in their future lives. Our teaching staff have been exploring ways in which our pupils may develop their ability to work collaboratively and there will continue to be an emphasis on this in a number of their lessons this year. Pupils may need to adopt an independent angle on a topic and to work alongside others to ensure that ideas are debated and become part of them. When working collaboratively, they will need to advance an argument or add to the thoughts of others in a productive way, developing themes and evaluating ways of thinking. They are aware that, at many universities, students contribute collaboratively on a number of themes, knowledge of which they share with each other.
European Day of Languages
Recognising that many of us lack facility in a range of different languages, a European Day of Languages was held for the entire FY which took the form of an Italian challenge. Four pupils (Siena Van Dam, Isabelle Montague-Fuller, Millie Dobson and Adam Davies) earned themselves a meal at the ASK Italian restaurant!