Olufunmi joined Queen Anne’s as an Academic Scholar and full boarder last September and is heading into the 4s (year 8).
Since starting at Queen Anne’s, Olufunmi has seized many opportunities open to academic scholars, attending seminars, with the last year’s seminars focussing on the G20 Summit. Olufunmi found these seminars hosted by Head of Scholars, Miss Clarke extremely interesting and wrote a fascinating essay on ‘If the people who attend the G20 Summit, effect the outcomes’.
The annual Scholars’ Essay Competition sees all the school’s academic scholars submit an essay on a personally chosen topic. Olufunmi’s essay on ‘The problems of banana production’ won her a prize at Speech Day in July 2022.
Academic scholars are required to think outside the box, we’re pushed harder, encouraged to do more problem solving. In some lessons, we are set extra challenges if you’ve finished all your work that really helps me to stretch myself.
“We are required to join and academic club, within the co-curricular programme, whether that’s book club, chess club, etc. I am part of World Scholars Cup, which is a fun, friendly, academic competition. It doesn’t just involve maths and English, it’s a wide variety and that’s what makes it fun, for example, we do collaborative writing, essay writing, poetry and comic creation.” Olufunmi and several other students made it to the World Scholars Cup global round in Dubai, a competition that saw students compete against peers from across the world. “I wrote diary entries, took part in debating, science challenges, history, special area, social studies, and a quiz. It’s about having fun with other people, meeting new people who share similar interests.”
Being an academic scholar exposes me to things I wouldn’t have known about without it.
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