How to Apply for Lift Tending Sixth Form 

Open Evening 

This is an opportunity to visit the Sixth form, meet our staff and students, view our facilities, pick up a new prospectus and find out more about the courses that we offer. Please see our live feed and social media site for details as they emerge. 

You can follow us on Facebook via: @Lifttendring 

Complete On-line Application  

Applications are made via the Sixth form website at the bottom of this page.

Please do not rush, as it is important that you make the appropriate choice of programme and subjects. 

This works on an annual cycle: Applications open immediately after the October Open Evening and close on Sunday 3 November at midnight, for entry the following September.  

Carefully complete the various sections on the form, giving as much detail as you can. You should apply for just one of the programmes of Study. If you are unsure which to apply for, please do not be concerned, as if your choice later proves unsuitable, this can be changed as part of our interview process. 

When you have applied, if you realise that you have made a mistake, then please DO NOT submit a second application as this can cause confusion. You should email the Sixth Form Admissions Office and explain the changes that you wish to make. 

Interview

The majority of interviews will take place face-to face during November for all internal applicants. External applicants will be interviewed up until March. You will need to ensure that you include your personal statement within your application, as this will be referred to during your interview. 

The personal statement should outline your main achievements both in and out of school and also include your current career plans, including any University course ideas. 

You can find personal statement guidelines below and by clicking on the following link:  Personal Statement Guidelines 

Personal Statement Guidelines

Your Personal Statement gives us a guide to your level of literacy and communication skills. So you might want to check your spelling and think about your sentence construction.

As with our own students applying to university, we want to see if your personal statement supports your course choices and career ideas.

Organise your statement into a structure that will make it read well. You should include some of the following:

• An outline of your current career plan and any relevant steps that have already been taken towards this goal. For example job shadowing, careers advice from a professional body, career- based mentoring or any specific university ambitions that you have.

• Work experience undertaken and any current part-time employment. What have these taught you?

• Why do you want to come to College? What is the rationale behind your course combination?

• Responsibilities in the home, at school, or in other organisations. This may include caring for siblings, or a parent, or making a significant contribution to any aspect of helping at home. In school it might be being a prefect; being on the school council, or organising charity, arts or sports events. Outside of school this may involve helping with the local Brownie pack; being involved with a Youth Council/Group, or helping with a junior football team.

• Special interests and the specific activities by which they have been pursued in the last couple of years. What are you really enthusiastic about? Please don’t include shopping, watching the television or video gaming – these are taken as given.

• What have you read? What books are you reading at present?

• Who are your heroes? What inspires you?

• Any significant achievements in the last two years– awards at school, representative sporting honours, public performances in the arts, maths/science Olympiad results.

• Personal qualities and maybe a suggestion as to some of your weaknesses that might be revealing, but not too damning.

• Please do tell us about any specific learning difficulty for which you have been receiving help at school and any other significant difficulty in your life that you have had to deal with. These help us to understand your position and make us more able to support you. This information is not used to determine your suitability for a place at Sixth form.

Enrollment 

This will take place late August / early September

The dates of the enrollment days are provided to students in successful applicant’s offer letters.