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ACADEMICS
Academic report Packwood continues to win scholarship awards to a range of top schools. This year the honours have included four academic awards to Shrewsbury, and one each to Rugby, Malvern, St Edward’s and Moreton. The pupils have also won coveted all-round awards to a number of schools, including our first in Year 7 to Repton (the CB Fry Award). There has also been a healthy number of Art, Music and Drama awards gained by our leavers. Lower down the school, several children have secured places at Eton, Harrow and Winchester.
2018 Scholars
The whole main school enjoyed Sixes’ off-curriculum day in the summer term, when Mr Nogues organised a terrific Languages Day. Year groups and teachers were jumbled up for twelve different language workshops, including Japanese, Dutch, Maori and Swahili. Last year’s popular Year 8 activity week also returned to enrich the top year’s curriculum further.
Beginning with a day’s outdoor training in ‘Grit and Resilience’, the week also included talent show auditions, outdoor skills and a MasterChef competition. Other activities were more thought provoking, such as the visit to the Beatles and Slavery museums in Liverpool. Thanks are also due to Packwood parents past and present for fascinating talks through the year on the British Empire, beavers, and South Georgia. The Year 8 Common Entrance grades were higher than ever, with a remarkable 71% of papers marked
A or B and 95% A to C. Results in the humanities subjects stood out this year, with Religious Studies, History and Geography earning swathes of top grades. RS achieved the most As, with 14 top grades and Flora Raichura winning the prize to Moreton Hall. In History, Orlando Bayliss came top in the scholarship papers whilst Freddie Wells won the Townsend Warner prize for historical knowledge. The Year 8 humanities trip to Holland once again proved a highlight, and in Geography there were also some outstanding results, including an A+ for Wilbur Blackham (Sedbergh) and A* for Bobby Boyes (Malvern). The Classics department is thriving and looking forward to next term’s trip to Italy. There were some wonderfully creative offerings through the year,