GDST Classics Prize

One of our A Level Classics students has been awarded a Pearson & Silver Award from the Girls’ Day School Trust.

Lower Sixth student Eliza, who is studying Classical Greek, Latin, French and Philosophy & Religion at A Level, plans to use the award to attend the JACT Greek Summer School in Dorset next month. Each year, the Pearson & Silver committee awards a number of prizes to GDST pupils to assist towards the cost of attending courses with a classical content. Entries are judged based on academic excellence in classical subjects, commitment to studying a classical subject at university and contribution to school life.  This year,  fourteen prizes were awarded nationally.

The Pearson & Silver Awards are just some of the many prestigious scholarships available exclusively to GDST pupils. The awards are named after Nancy Silver, a classicist and former GDST Head, and Bertram Pearson, a former member of the Council of the Trust, who left a share of his estate to the GDST for the purpose of promoting the study and pursuit of classical learning in Greek and Latin.