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A pitiful war but not a pity
The origins and nature of the First World War are still a matter of great controversy for historians, as this article suggests. Gary Sheffield describes Germany as an ‘authoritarian, militarist,…
A level Resit Success
The Telegraph’s article http://fw.to/ShSsI2R about what to do if you don’t achieve the A level grades you were hoping for has lots of good advice about making sure you are…
Well done to all our GCSE students
The GCSE course at Brampton, unlike that in most schools, is a very intensive one-year programme. We are extremely proud of our GCSE students this year, who have all completed…
Jonathan’s article in ‘Theology and science’ Journal
Jonathan Chappell is head of Religious Studies at Brampton. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from University College London, and was recently awarded an MLitt in Theology from Darwin College,…
Photography Education – Is There an Age to Express the Inner Being?
On Photography Education Is There an Age to Express the Inner Being? A few months ago I read with great interest a series of articles on photography education published in…
Poetry Reading by Martyn Crucefix
Elaine Feinstein Martyn Crucefix Timothy Adès presenting translations of ~ Marina Tsvetaeva ~ R M Rilke ~ Victor Hugo ~ Thursday 30 May at 7pm at Waterstones 68 Hampstead High…
Non-realism, ‘The Sea of Faith’
Philosophy & Ethics students will be familiar with the notion of non-realism. Based on the ideas of the later Ludwig Wittgenstein, non-realism was further developed by the Cambridge philosophical theologian,…
Charity Run by A2 Student
Niraj, one of our A2 students has battled through bad health over the past couple of years and has decided to challenge himself by running a 10Km charity run. ‘I…
State school pupils facing A-level cap
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/10051657/State-school-pupils-facing-A-level-cap.html This is a backward step and will limit the curriculum. Each student has different needs and the breadth in the curriculum will suffer due to this change. Many…
A2 Politics Students- Discomfort of Strangers, David Goodhart
This article was written as far back as 2004, and first published in The Guardian. Ever since, it has provoked a great deal of sometimes impassioned discussion among those who…
