FLIPPING BOOK CHRONICLE 2024

2024 SARB MPC CHALLENGE From left: Carlyle Hawkins, Dylan Hewlett, Luke Kauffman and Matthew Kennedy

D Block year. We thank Mr Sevenoaks for his engagement with Mr Pearse and his efforts in piloting this exciting opportunity for our D Blockers.

In B Block we focused our extension opportunities on more individualized activities. Many of our boys entered the Proverto National Economics Olympiad. They excelled in this assessment, with 90% of them proceeding to the second round. Our final results had 20 boys achieve above 80%, whilst Reily Elliot was placed second in South Africa out of 9500 Olympiad entries nationally. Reily is the first Economics pupil at Michaelhouse to achieve a top-tier placing in the Economics Olympiad. We are enormously proud of his achievement. Another high-level opportunity that we continue encouraging our boys to tackle is the John Locke Global Essay Prize. This competition invites boys to explore a wide range of challenging questions well beyond the confines of the school curriculum. In 2024 there were more than 35 000 entries received from students across the world aged 17 or younger. For the second year running, Michaelhouse had an Economics pupil recognised by the John Locke Institute, which is based in the heart of Oxford and is led by professors from Princeton University and dons from Oxford. Reily Elliot’s essay on the role of government in accurate news reporting led to his being invited as a finalist to an awards ceremony in London. Additionally, he joined fellow finalists from around the world at a conference and lectures led by distinguished academics from Oxford and Cambridge in Oxford. He followed in the footsteps of Luke Kaufmann who, in 2023, had a similar experience which took him into the forum of the top academic scholars of his age from around

Our C Block extension programme was planned around engaging with FRED: For Real Entrepreneurial Development. Mr Bruce Rowe, of Mpowered Business Solutions, and his team created an online entrepreneurial course in which Michaelhouse engaged, as a pilot case study, from June to October. Two lessons a week were dedicated to exploring the process of “finding your why, finding your niche, making your business” on the FRED forum, including AI diary discussions, where the AI could assist in picking up a boy’s passion by adjusting the questioning direction to engage him via his interests. The FRED programme’s aim is to simulate the real-world entrepreneurial process, allowing scholars to experience the power of feedback from trusted peers, as well as the “pivot, cut or continue” rapid prototyping that today’s business development relies on. As part of the package, the C Block boys also enjoyed an in-person learning event, where the FRED entrepreneurs shared their stories with our boys at Michaelhouse, providing interactions, questions and inspiration surrounding entrepreneurship. We thank Ms White for her engagement with Mr Rowe and the FRED team, as well as adjusting and managing the C Block Economics syllabus to allow for this wonderful opportunity.

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