Y12 University Open Days / Y13 Offer holders' Days. If you wish to attend any days this year, please remember to fill in a form each time.
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
The school will provide for you:
Appropriate teaching and opportunities for learning, including advice about appropriate courses, and setting and marking of study tasks.
Regular feedback and reporting on your abilities and objectives for the future, including advice and guidance on progression routes.
Access to your Tutor throughout the week; individual meetings with students (and parents/carers) as requested.
Facilities and resources for study and opportunities to acquire sound learning skills and study habits.
A genuine concern for the health, well-being and development of all students. Staff are available for consultation and will seek the help of outside agencies when needed.
YOUR COMMITMENT
You will be expected to:
Participate fully in school life. Arrive promptly to all lessons, tutorials, and assemblies; arrive fully prepared and equipped for each lesson, or school activity, with required work completed.
Follow the dress code
Keep records of your participation on the Student Record Cards retained by your Tutor.
Communicate regularly: check the sixth form hub or twitter feed @stb6th every day to pick up messages. Check your school email account every day to check for messages from teaching staff.
Attend all arranged one-to-one meetings with members of staff, including the completion of Progress Trackers/ Impact Reports in line with deadlines. If placed on a Supervised Study timetable or required to register more regularly with your Tutor or Senior Tutor, you must meet these commitments. Attend Friday afternoon subject support or exam practice sessions where requested by a member staff.
Show respect for people, property and the school environment at all times.
Keep up with your work; if Independent Study tasks have been completed, you are expected to use study time to follow up and consolidate work covered in class and by reading around future topics.
In the event of teacher absence, seek out and complete work set.
Attendance below 95% will affect your progress and will therefore require you to attend regular meetings with your tutor.
If you wish to drop a subject or adjust your programme of study, you must discuss this with appropriate teaching staff and your tutor and then complete the necessary forms in order to have them formally approved by the Head of Sixth Form, Ms Allen.
Be on course to pass all your courses, which should number at least three. If a teacher indicates that you are below this threshold, and actions do not improve this situation, then your place in the Sixth Form will be at risk.
You must attend all timetabled lessons.
Enrichment and Sixth Form Assemblies are compulsory.
Students are expected to attend registration at Monday-Friday at 08.40.
Signing in
All students must sign themselves into the building using the Biometric system.
Students should not be in the building before 08.30.
Signing out
Once you have completed your lessons for the day and you choose to leave, you must sign out using the biometric system.
If you you feel ill or have an appointment, you must also sign out at the Sixth Form Office with Mrs Garrety.
If you return to school, you must sign back in using the biometric system.
Exceptions
Where a student has no timetabled lessons on a particular day, they are not required to attend school.
Key principles
All students should be available to teachers Mon-Fri 08.30-15.10. This means that if students are requested to attend a meeting/supervised study, they cannot that they have other commitments/paid work at that time.
Students should have a full working day, irrespective of their timetables. They should not be doing paid work and should not book driving lessons or, if at all possible, medical appointments during the school day. Students should not bring friends into the school who are not currently on roll. Parents/carers must sign in at Reception if they visit the school for a meeting.