Cultural Perspectives

Our amazing Year 12 Cultural Perspectives programme will take you beyond your exam subjects and into the wider world of ideas – giving you the freedom to explore new topics and making learning exciting, empowering and enjoyable.

Each term in Year 12, you can pick one Cultural Perspective course. Topics are created by our fantastic teachers, who use their creativity, backgrounds and wider interests to design courses they know will genuinely appeal to students — from culture and society to big ideas, events and debates that matter in the real world.

Our Cultural Perspectives courses are designed to encourage creativity and wider reading, spark curiosity, and generate a real sense of awe and wonder about a particular topic or event. You will have genuine opportunities to talk, debate, share your views and show leadership, helping you to develop your spiritual, moral, social and cultural understanding with confidence.

"The Cultural Perspectives programme is great, because you get to do new and different things outside of your subjects, and it is a great way to make new friends." Chanel

What will you choose? - some examples of courses

Here is a taste of the kind of courses you can pick. Which ones appeal to you?

• Group Work and Effective Communication
• My Culture, My Business
• Alchemy - Fact or Fiction?
• Promoting Healthy Relationships
• Contextual Reading Through Current Affairs
• Climate
• Personality
• Exploring Mexico: A Journey Through Culture, History and Traditions
• Men and Media
• Introduction to Greek Myths
• Subcultures - Why Do They Exist?
• The Surreal Society: Exploring surrealism Through Sculpture
• Born evil? The Nature vs Nurture Debate
• The Quaker Experience in Philadelphia
• The British Black Civil Rights Movement
• Around the World in Art, Sport, Food and Literature

You'll have two sessions a week on your chosen topic and be asked to submit a final response to each Cultural Perspectives course. This doesn’t have to be an essay! Your response can reflect the Cultural Perspective itself. It could be a presentation, artefact, dramatic piece – who knows?