Here at The Park Academies Trust we use cookies to: - improve our website performance; - help you share our content across your social media networks; and - personalise our advertisements to you.
To accept our cookies please click the button below, or for further details and the chance to specify your cookie preferences please click ‘more information’.
You can change your preferences at any time by visiting the “Cookies Preferences” page, which can be found via our footer. View our Privacy and Cookies policies for full details.
From architecture to addiction, comic strips to criminology and gaming to gothic stories – with an EPQ, you choose what you study!
At TPAT Sixth Form we offer all Y12 students the opportunity to complete an EPQ. This is a stand-alone qualification which is equivalent to 60 % of an A level (more UCAS points than an AS level). The qualification is highly regarded by universities as it involves many of the skills students require at degree level: independent enquiry, research methods, referencing and presentation skills to name but a few. The EPQ is unique in that students have the freedom to choose a topic of their choice and write their own title - it could be an extension of a curricular topic or something that isn’t covered by the curriculum at all. The final product may be a written report or students may choose to produce an artefact instead. At TPAT Sixth Form, sixth formers start the EPQ in term 2 of Y12 and complete the qualification by the Easter of Y12. The lessons take place during PHSE, students are paired with a member of staff who works with them one-to-one as their supervisor and we run a research trip to the University of Southampton.
Mrs R. BarrettBA (Hons) English, PGCE
Head of Year 12 & EPQ Co-ordinatorTeacher of English
BarrettR@tpatsixthform.org.uk