The Parthenon in Athens was built by the ancient Greeks and dedicated to the goddess Athena. It is to thank the goddess for their success. The Parthenon serves as a symbol of Athenean strength and the elevated culture of Athens.
Gravesend Grammar School provides you with a number of additional opportunities to broaden your education so that you may leave as a well-rounded, interesting and passionate individual whose love of learning new things drives them forward.
The GGS Parthenon Award is designed to get you thinking about and learning beyond the standard curriculum, lessons and exam specifications. It is hoped that it will inspire you to stretch and challenge yourself and think more about developing as an individual away from the classroom.
It is hoped by completing this award that students will develop greater inner strength and increase their own cultural experience and awareness.
The Parthenon Award consists of four Pillars of Achievement. Each pillar requires a wider breadth of interest to successfully complete. Each pillar also has three elements which you will need to complete in order to be awarded the certificate.
Participation - in lessons, school events, extracurricular clubs
Subject engagement beyond the curriculum - engaging with topics and subjects in a way not done in class.
Expanding horizons - working with completely unfamiliar topics and problems.
Each student is given a booklet in year 7 to work through.
Exploration
One section of the booklet is Exploration. Within this section there is a challenge to read a book from the following list
Once read the book, you are required to write a review (250 words) and be prepared to answer a set of questions from a member of the KS3 team.
Many of these books can be found on Empathy Lab
The Goldfish Boy | Lisa Thompson |
Welcome to Nowhere | Elizabeth Laird |
How To Train Your Dragon | Cressida Cowell |
Smart | Kim Slater |
Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
The Guggenheim Mystery | Robin Stevens |
The Island at the End of Everything | Kiran Millwood Hargrave |
Noughts and Crosses | Malorie Blackman |
Booked | Kwame Alexander |
Car Wash Wish | Sita Brachmachari |
Boy 87 | Ele Fountain |
Indigo Donut | Patrice Lawrence |
No Fixed Address | Susin Nielsen |
Boy in The Tower | Polly Ho-Yen |
The Boy at The Back of The Class | Onjali Q Rauf |
The Light Jar | Lisa Thompson |
Can You See Me? | Libby Scott & Rebecca Westcott |
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | Kate di Camillo |
Furious Thing | Jenny Downham |
Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds |
The Black Flamingo | Dean Atta |
The Boy Who Steals Houses | CG Drews |
Heartstopper | Alice Oseman |
Kick The Moon | Muhammad Khan |
I Was Born For This | Alice Oseman |
Gloves Off | Louisa Reid |
Boy Everywhere | AM Dassu |
When Stars Are Scattered | Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed |
Clap When You Land | Elizabeth ACevedo |
Run Rebel | Manjeet Mann |
A House Without Walls | Elizabeth Laird |
The Crossing | Manjeet Mann |
Punching The Air | Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam |
The Sad Ghost Club | Lize Meddings |
Black and British | David Olusoga |
Splinters of Sunshine | Patrice Lawrence |
Felix After After | Kacen Callender |
After The War | Tom Palmer |
When The Sky Falls | Phil Earle |
When The World Was Ours | Liz Kessler |
Wonder | RJ Palacio |
Cane Warriors | Alex Wheatle |
Tsunami Girl | Julian Sedgwick |
Nisha’s War | Dan Smith |
No Man’s Land | Joanna Nadin |
Needle | Patrice Lawrence |
The Wheel of Surya | Jamila Gavin |
Coram Boy | Jamila Gavin |
Holes | Louis Sacher |
Fuzzy Mud | Louis Sacher |
The Day I Was Erased | Lisa Thompson |
The Boy Who Fooled The World | Lisa Thompson |
The Light Jar | Lisa Thompson |
The Graveyard Riddle | Lisa Thompson |
The Hate You Give | Angie Thomas |
The Light in Everything | Katya Balen |
The Silver Chain | Joni Sheibani |
When Shadows Fall | Sita Brachmachari |
When Our Worlds Collided | Danielle Jawando |
Wrecked | Louisa Reid |
SLAM (poetry) | Chosen by Nikita Gill |
Silence is Not an Option | Stuart Lawrence |
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