We’re super proud to announce that Lower Sixth students, Helena Nicolaides, Priyal Shah and Joanna Solomon, have all gained partial scholarships on one of Immerse Education’s summer courses. The students reflected on their achievements below:

“We all entered the 500-word Immerse Education essay competition for 2021. There were a variety of intriguing essay questions for different subjects, and the prizes were partial or full scholarships to their 2-week summer camp in the subject we chose, where we stay in Cambridge colleges and receive one-on-one tuition.

“The advantages of doing an essay competition like this are learning skills like referencing, time management and the technique of writing an essay. Also, we are about to start our UCAS applications and to gain recognition for something like this shows dedication to our subject and excellence, which is a good thing to talk about in an interview and on our personal statement.”

Joanna

“I wanted to do this competition because I was intrigued by the creative writing question, “Do personal diaries constitute creative writing?” In addition to this, I especially wanted to do it since I love creative writing, and the prize of spending two weeks at Cambridge learning to write a novella and make new friends sounded really exciting. It was my first time referencing and a difficult thing to learn, but I’m glad I’ve had practice as I’m about to start on my IB extended essay.”

Read Joanna’s essay, “Does a personal diary constitute creative writing?”, HERE.

Helena

“The competition interested me because of the variety of different essay questions to choose from and my interest in Physics led me to writing an essay with the title: ‘Why is Physics Important?’ I also wanted to enter this essay competition because the A level subjects I chose are not essay subjects, therefore I wanted to enter this competition to develop my writing skills.”

Read Helena’s essay, “Why is physics important?” HERE.

Priyal

“All my A level subjects are essay based, so I thought essay competitions would be a beneficial experience for me, so I decided to enter this competition. I chose to do History as my essay subject along with its corresponding title: “What can the past teach us about Coronavirus?” I really liked this title as it was current and I felt there was a lot to talk about as there have been many lessons we have learnt from past pandemics. This was a really great opportunity for me and there is definitely a lot I can take away from this experience.”

Read Priyal’s essay, “What can the past teach us about the coronavirus pandemic?”, HERE.

We are extremely proud of their achievements, and wish them every success for the summer programmes.