{"id":2466,"date":"2019-06-05T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2019-07-15T14:13:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:13:59","slug":"sixth-formers-complete-extended-project-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/sixth-formers-complete-extended-project-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixth Formers Complete Extended Project Qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/EPQ-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/EPQ-2019.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/EPQ-2019-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Year 13 students (left to right): Jess Bayley, Joseph Lister, Luke Waldram, Joel Clayton and Grace Docker<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After several months of planning and research, sixth formers from Bridgnorth Endowed School presented their final Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) work to a group of fellow students last month.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year saw students choose an array of innovative and thought-provoking topics that included, the impact of palm oil extraction, whether electric cars are the future, and if serial killers are a result of nature or nurture.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the students opted instead to produce artefacts based on areas of genuine interest to them \u2013 Joel Clayton created an intricate board game and Joseph Lister built a radio-controlled model aircraft.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taken alongside A Levels, the qualification is equivalent to half an A Level and requires students to work independently, putting in many hours of their own time to complete the projects.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head of Sixth Form, Mrs Whitmore, comments: \u201cThis qualification often enables students to secure better University offers and historically the school has an excellent track record of EPQ results.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt provides a fantastic opportunity for students to experience a university-style assignment as the EPQ is a largely self-directed and self-motivated project that is designed to encourage creativity and curiosity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several months of planning and research, sixth formers from Bridgnorth Endowed School presented their final Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) work to a group of fellow students last month. This year saw students choose an array of innovative and thought-provoking topics that included, the impact of palm oil extraction, whether electric cars are the future, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/sixth-formers-complete-extended-project-qualifications\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sixth Formers Complete Extended Project Qualifications&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[4,19,51],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curriculum","tag-bridgnorth-endowed","tag-sixth-form","tag-year-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}