Study Skills

Course summary

The Extended Project is suitable for students who are independent and self-motivated learners as this course requires them to direct and manage their own project and deadlines. It is essential that the students have a passion for the topic that they decide to base their project around and can be in the form of a dissertation or a piece of creative writing. Creative Writing: This course is ideal for students who enjoy writing creatively and wish to take their writing further. The content will be modelled on elements of the current A Level Creative Writing course and will enable students to produce extensive written pieces that can be in the form of a performance, artifact, creative writing, field study, investigation or dissertation. Students will complete a writing journal, will participate in workshop sessions and will carry out detailed evaluations of their work. For further information on these different formats, please contact Mr. Ridgway or search for Pearson Extended Project. The course helps develop independent research, extended writing and project management skills and teaches transferable skills for education or the workplace. Students gain exactly half the A Level value for UCAS points on the new tariff scale, making the qualification more valuable than a new AS Level. The Extended Project is a very popular qualification with universities.