• To offer learning environments where you feel safe, valued and informed

• To meet the needs of all students through a high-quality provision of appropriate learning and enrichment opportunities

• To provide clear progression opportunities along relevant and flexible pathways

• To ensure you receive comprehensive and impartial advice and guidance in order to achieve your full potential

• To give you the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to set yourself demanding targets and the determination to achieve them

• To provide you with a platform from which you can progress to employment or to higher or further education

• To provide best value through effective deployment of resources and specialist staff

You are encouraged to move on to the Sixth Form provided that you are capable of benefiting from the courses which are available and that you have a positive approach to your work. The level of course you could progress onto will depend on the results you achieve at Key Stage 4. 

Standard entry requirement to our Consortium is five Grade 9-4 GCSEs or equivalent including English and Maths at Grade 4 or above and a minimum overall GCSE Average Points Score (APS) of a 4. Most courses will have additional entry requirements and these are detailed in the Entry Requirements table.  You must be under 18 on 31st August 2026 to join the Sixth Form.

After the Open Evening you will be asked to complete a registration form indicating the courses which you would like to take in the Sixth Form. These choices will be discussed with you in individual meetings and induction sessions will be held in each school. Taster lessons in each subject will be offered across the Consortium during a designated period in the second half of the summer term.

Entry requirements are detailed under each of the subjects.

Click here for a summary table of all entry requirements. 

Impartial advice and guidance regarding options after Key Stage 4 is available for you from a variety of sources including subject teachers, Year Heads, Careers Co-ordinators, Heads of Sixth Form and Head Teachers. Career advisers are available in school on a regular basis.

In the Sixth Form you will be assigned to a tutor and a tutor group for the whole of your Sixth Form course. The tutor, supported by your Head of Sixth, is responsible for your academic guidance and pastoral care. Careers education and guidance is an integral part of the Sixth Form programme with the aim of helping you to make informed, appropriate choices about your future.

You will receive advice and assistance from nominated personnel at each school when making applications to university or college, and for apprenticeships and work experience. There is an integrated reference process for UCAS applications between the three schools, via the Unifrog platform.  Where talks and presentations are made from industry representatives, we aim to make these accessible to students across the Consortium wherever possible.

Each school offers a range of Sixth Form courses with the opportunity to take courses at other schools within the Consortium. Generally, it will be possible to accommodate you on the courses of your choice, however, where demand dictates, the following criteria will apply:

1. Some courses are joint-taught across two or more schools. Students from all three schools have equal right of access to these courses.
   
   

2. Some courses are only delivered at one or two of the three schools. Places on these courses will be given to students from the other schools once the demand for places in the host school has been assessed.
   
   

3. In some cases, it is difficult to timetable all the subjects which you would like to take without there being a timetable clash. Most often in this situation it will be possible for you to take a subject at one of the other schools to resolve the clash.
   
   

4. Please note that in cases where only a small number of students choose a particular course it may not be possible to run it.

You must negotiate your courses with your own Head of Sixth Form. Students from outside the area wishing to be taught within the Consortium need first to apply to the Sixth Form in one of the schools.

Transport is provided at certain times during the school day to move students between sites, where required, for consortium lessons. You are expected to make your own way to and from your teaching site at the beginning and end of the day.

Students joining the Sixth Form are encouraged to follow a broad, challenging curriculum. Most students will select three courses for their studies from the wide range of different A level or Vocational courses available within the Consortium.

All of the A level courses are linear, with assessment by examination taking place at the end of two years of study.  These courses are graded on a six-point scale with pass grades from A* to E.

The vocational courses offered are equivalent to one A level. These courses are graded as Pass, Merit, Distinction or Distinction* and are assessed through assignments, both internally & externally marked, and examinations.

You will be encouraged to take more responsibility for your work, particularly with regard to its planning and completion, the preparation required for lessons and the amount of reading needed to gain the necessary depth and breadth of knowledge in each subject. 

You will have a number of independent/ directed study or assisted learning periods each week.  You will be expected to use this time constructively on further study, research or wider reading.  For each hour of taught lessons in school, you will need to spend upwards of one hour on independent study in order to achieve your full potential.