Food for Thought

FOOD for THOUGHT

The Food for Thought Programme is our bespoke programme of super-curricular and critical thinking activities designed to support Denstonians in their individual quests to become even broader, deeper and sharper thinkers.

Our teachers incorporate elements of the programme into their curriculum teaching as appropriate, but there are also a range of additional sessions (seminars, debates, thinking games, discussion lunches and activities). These are voluntary and are aimed not merely at formal academic scholars, but at any pupils who are intellectually ambitious and interested in developing themselves intellectually beyond the curriculum.


Our ambitious aims are to help pupils

 

  • Think in a more inter-disciplinary way;
  • Have a wider appreciation of culture;
  • Read more widely and ambitiously;
  • Work through problems more logically;
  • Think more critically;
  • Think more bravely;
  • Care more about big issues;
  • Use language more precisely;
  • Love detail more;
  • Hit harder in debate;
  • Enjoy their ideas being challenged more.


Dr Baker's Food for Thought Blog regularly shares ideas for discussion and reflection, and can be found below.

  • Wed, 09 Oct 2024

    Word Up

    To follow on from our last blog on Triviality and the foundational importance of language in stretching our thinking power, here are a few thoughts about one of the twelve threads of the Denstone Food for Thought Programme, and a few fun examples to keep you entertained over Half Term.

  • Wed, 09 Oct 2024

    Food for Thought Programme

    Trivial Pursuits
    “We should treat […] all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”