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THE PERSONAL ENRICHMENT LIST
​or, 49 things to do in London before you leave Tallis...

London is full of marvels, so many that you could spend a lifetime sampling them and not exhaust the possibilities. Whilst you're endeavouring to gain a few decent A level or BTEC results you ought to also consider nourishing your soul. London is a great place to do that. Here's a modest list of things we think will entertain, educate and otherwise improve you. Why not attempt to do the lot? Don't forget to tell your tutor when you've completed one of the challenges. Send photos of you at the relevant locations to this address. Use the same address to let us know if you have any suggestions for additions to the list.

Have fun!

The List:

  1. Make a meal for your friends
  2. Find your local MP (contact to climb Big Ben for free, know how they have voted, learn three key pieces of information about them)
  3. Meet The Ambassadors and their anamorphic skull at the National Gallery
  4. Read a ghost story in the café in Oxleas Woods, previously home to famous occultist Algernon Blackwood
  5. Sing the chorus from 'I am the Walrus' to the walrus at The Horniman Museum
  6. Walk part of the Green Chain Walk
  7. Go to the South Bank Centre and listen to some music (Take the singing glass elevator in the Royal Festival Hall)
  8. Take the Woolwich Ferry
  9. Disconnect to reconnect one day a week (Take a Digital Detox)
  10. Do a free park run
  11. Walk the 21 bridges from Richmond to Tower Bridge
  12. Check out the Magna Carta at The British Library
  13. Ask the oldest person you know what it was like when they were 17 and make a short film of their answers
  14. Visit Somerset House for a free exhibition
  15. Buy a bunch of flowers at the Sunday morning market on Columbia Road or visit the fashion and food markets: Borough, Notting Hill
  16. Work out how fast you walk
  17. Climb to the top of Primrose Hill and draw the view
  18. Yarn bomb your local park bench
  19. Plant a vegetable seed. Harvest the vegetable. Eat the vegetable.
  20. Visit the South London Gallery
  21. Find a free sporting fixture
  22. Write an IFTTT recipe
  23. Talk to a goat at Mudchute City Farm
  24. Watch an old film for free in the Mediatheque or watch a film on a rooftop
  25. Check out your ancestors at the Grant Museum of Zoology
  26. Get lost at The Barbican
  27. Make a speech at Speakers’ Corner
  28. Walk to the Isle of Dogs and back under the Thames
  29. Visit an unusual building during Open House London
  30. Picnic with a pelican in St. James’ Park
  31. Visit the Scandal on the Strand
  32. Take a barefoot selfie on the Abbey Road zebra crossing
  33. Go to Highgate Cemetery, one of the 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries of Victorian London.  Find the author of Das Kapital on the Tour. Visit George Eliot's grave, which is there too.  Then read 'Daniel Deronda'. 
  34. Visit Nunhead Cemetery with a telescope and look across London to Highgate from the vantage point.  Then go on the tour of the catacombs under the ruined church.  (Once a year.  Spooky.)  Or find the Stearne Monument and, sitting nearby, read one of Cicero's 'Tusculan Disputations' (perhaps 'On the contempt of death' would be suitable?). Or find the Attic Monument of John Allan and read aloud the Iliad book 23: 106-261, where Patroclus' funeral pyre is raised.
  35. Visit the Science Museum at night
  36. Read some extraordinary tales of ordinary Londoners at Postman’s Park
  37. Get some inspiration from The School of Life
  38. Go to Sir John Soane's museum to examine the sarcophagus and then look at pickled syphilytic skulls in the Hunterian, opposite
  39. Learn the Greek alphabet using Memrise
  40. Read all of the published works of one author
  41. Visit a place of worship that you’ve never been to before
  42. Swim in a lido (Hampstead Heath, Charlton, London Fields, Brockwell Park)
  43. Watch the Guards change at Buckingham Palace
  44. Visit a festival e.g. Notting Hill Carnival
  45. Attend a Tallis Thinking Aloud session
  46. Attend a “Tallis Talk”
  47. Find out about the drains.  Either visit the Crossness Pumping Engine, or write to Thames Water to see if they'll take you on one of their occasional sewer tours.
  48. On foot, visit the accessible (above-ground) remnants of London's abandoned underground stations.  Just where is York Road station, anyway? 
  49. Read a book by an author writing in a language you don't know a single word of.
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  • Curriculum
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    • Graphics
    • Humanities & Social Sciences
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    • Languages
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    • Physical Education
    • Sciences
    • Visual & Media Arts
  • Parents
    • Pastoral Care
    • Letters Home
  • Policies
    • Learning Agreement
    • Admissions
    • Attendance
    • Reporting an absence
    • Post-16 Dress Code
    • Behaviour and Support
    • Plagiarism
    • Bursary Scheme
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  • Students
    • Student Voice
    • Black Lives Matter
    • Clubs & Societies
    • Exams & Assessments
    • Co-curricular opportunities
    • School Journeys
    • The Personal Enrichment List
    • Interventions timetable
    • Transition Reading Lists
    • Supercurricular Reading Lists
    • Top Tips posters
    • JCQ Information for Candidates
    • Facilities
  • Progression
    • Progression Event Resources
    • Progression Booklet 2024
    • UCAS
    • University Outreach, Events and Open Days
    • Oxbridge & the Russell Group
    • Visual, Media & Performing Arts Progression
    • Student Finance
    • World of Work
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