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Sara is a year 13 A-level student at Ark Academy in Wembley, north London. She has a conditional offer to attend Imperial College, where she plans to study biochemistry.  
About eight years ago, I was diagnosed with arthritis. Because I was a child back then, they didn’t tell me much about the causes or treatments and I became curious about the disease. There was no history of arthritis in my family and researching it on my own led to my love of DNA and finding out more about how it works.  

Clementine Wade is Head of Sixth Form Academic at Ark Walworth Academy. Clementine has been working in education since graduating from the University of Cambridge in 2005.

Tom McGing is a teacher at Ark Walworth Academy in South London. In this short film, he demonstrates how to use ‘summarisers’ to support student learning. 
Students digest more information and find it easier to recall things for exams, when they are asked to summarise what they’ve learnt at the end of a lesson. 

This blog is part of a series on Ark's approach to curriculum.  In his posts, Rich Davies, Ark's Director of Insight defines the different types of 'macro-curriculum.' This time, he discusses 'School Breadth.'