Study Skills

Course summary

As well as subject teaching, we offer academic enrichment to all who have, or would like to develop, a greater intrinsic interest in a particular subject. In the first term, all pupils will receive information about the opportunity of doing EPQ (Extended Project Qualification). The course for this involves preparation for writing academic essays (there is an internal school competition in the first term, and pupils are encouraged to enter external competitions after Christmas), as well as teaching of critical thinking and research skills. After Christmas, those pupils carrying on with the EPQ programme will continue to attend lessons where they will receive more individual guidance about their own project. In addition, pupils are initially given introductory lectures and taster courses in most subjects (including some not taught at Canford). As intellectual maturity develops and interests become clearer, these courses become more intensely focused on the subject that will form a basis for each pupil’s university application.