The Early Applicant programme this year has seen a wide variety of activities, including a mock COP26 facilitated by civil servants who were fresh from the real conference in Glasgow (Mossbourne students successfully saved the world); a mock trial which upheld Naomi Campbell’s landmark privacy case; and a visit from counter-terrorism and cyber security experts from the Foreign Office. All visitors remarked on how engaged, mature and intelligent our Year 12s were; they were truly a credit to Mossbourne.