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Critical & Creative Thinking by Clare Greenwood and Allie Hill
29 September 2009
Once upon a time, 19 newly fledged Critical Thinkers went on an adventurous voyage of mental discovery. Our destination: the British Library for a workshop called 'Exploring the World's Knowledge'. For countless generations, trees have gone to the slaughterhouse and ended up in their graves of glass cabinets and in the vaults beneath this impressive building. But these books are not dead; we could feel the life emanating from this reference library, as people went about, feeding off the tree of knowledge. We were guided through the making of history, shown how to learn from appearances and had all our preconceptions challenged. These 19, having benefitted greatly from the day, will continue to expand their horizons during the rest of the greatly anticipated Critical & Creative Thinking course. Written by Clare Greenwood & Allie Hill
GCSE Results
Girls have once again achieved some truly excellent results in their GCSE examinations this summer. 29% of all results were at A* grade, 57% A*-A and 80% A*-B.
Carla Barberio, Rebecca Murray, Hannah Short and Surina Taneja all achieved 10A* grades, Tessa Forbes and Chloe Scott 9A* grades, Connie Fan, Yasmin Jamil and Frances Whittaker-Wood 8A* and Emily Myrtle, Lauren Roberts and Georgia Austin Greenall 7 A* grades.
Eighteen girls were sitting their examinations having spent, in most cases, only 3 years studying in English, and yet between them they amassed results which closely mirrored the overall percentages: 21% A*, 54% A*-A and 76% A*-B.
Although I am sad that our boarders are unable to progress to Bedford Girls' School for their Sixth Form studies, I am delighted that most of our very top achievers will be going on to take A level or IB courses there.
I wish every girl who left Bedford High School at the end of Upper 5 the very best of luck for their future studies.
Julie Eldridge
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