The Faculty of Humanities

2020-2021 was the year of the bubble at St. Olave’s which saw the Humanities spread far wide around the school.

It was nonetheless a successful, stable year which saw staff battle Covid on a variety of fronts and rise once again to the challenge of a Lockdown from January –March 2021.

This time lessons were taught remotely using Microsoft Teams meaning further skills were added to our repertoires when it comes to utilising the Office 365 package!

The year ended with the departure of John Greenwood. Because Chelsea FC have a habit of sacking managers regularly, the prospect of John leaving to take up a new post had always been on the cards, never more so than after he managed the St. Olave’s 1st XI to glory in the North Kent Schools Football League! His departure to take up a position at Bromley High School has shorn the Economics department, the faculty and the school as a whole of an excellent practitioner and leader who in a variety of guises was instrumental in many of the outstanding student accomplishment we have celebrated since 2007.

Special Achievement

Ishan Kalia received an honourable mention and a certificate for the Gonville and Caius College History essay competition for his object biography on the ‘Delhi Iron Pillar’.

Young Historians Prize for Local History

Year 13 student, Flora Tregear won the Young Historians Prize for Local History for her essay ‘Offspring of the Stink: Park Fever Hospital’. She has beaten hundreds of other students to win this very impressive prize. Her work will be published in the Journal ‘The Historian’ and she has also won a cash prize for her efforts.

National College of Humanities

Year 13 Ebun Bello was highly commended by the National College of Humanities for her essay on ‘Whether liberal democracy is in decline worldwide’.

John Locke Institute

Year 13 Rhea Rentala’s hard work was recognised at an extremely high level after entering the John Locke Institute essay competition in the Philosophy and Psychology categories. Rhea’s essay was shortlisted and she was selected as a finalist in the Psychology category, an outstanding achievement, as there were over 4000 global entries. As a finalist, she was invited to attend an awards dinner and a three-day academic conference at Oxford University. We wish her the best of luck for the remainder of the competition.

Daniel Espejo S___Head of History