Sixth Form Support

Our programme includes:

• Regular assessments and feedback on how to develop your work
• Monitoring your progress, providing guidance on progression and assistance in setting targets for improvement
• A UCAS and Careers programme to enable your progression beyond the Sixth Form
• Regular Progress and Attitude to Learning reports
• A programme of extra-curricular activities, including enrichment
• Independent study periods
• Personal statement workshops
• Personal development sessions
• Year 12 and 13 mock exams
• Rotary Club mock interviews
• Parent/carer consultations

Work Experience

Work Experience in Year 12 is a focal part of the career development our scholars complete with local and regional companies and organisations.

From finance and learning how to handle money, to politics and how to vote, we aim to ensure that our scholars are prepared for the world they are about to step into.

Where our scholars have completed their work experience:

Careers and Employability

As part of our excellent support for post-18 progression, we offer:

• Qualified careers advisers.

• One-to-one guidance interviews with a qualified adviser from Form the Future.

• Sustained, relevant, and timely careers education, information, advice and guidance, covering all post-18 progression routes, built into the Personal Development curriculum.

• Well-developed links with leading universities.

• Links with local and national employers through our partner Growth Works.

• Support in applying for access programmes, summer schools and taster courses.

• Expert advice and guidance on fees, loans and university finance – delivered by our partners at Neaco.

• Guidance on CVs, applications, and interviews, including a mock interview.

• Extensive guidance and support on all aspects of the UCAS application process, from making choices all the way to Confirmation and Clearing.

• Guidance on work-related learning and support in finding a work placement.

Most Able Provision

We support our scholars throughout their time with us, knowing that they may have aspirations to apply for top universities, degree apprenticeships and highly competitive courses such as Medicine. As of this, we offer:

• Excellent support for scholars.
• Individual support for Oxbridge applicants.
• Super-curricular opportunities to aid in a successful application to Oxford, Cambridge or other top Russel Group universities.
• In Year 13, we offer support for Admissions Tests and have extensive experience of delivering high quality practice interviews, which we hone each year based on feedback from our applicants.

EPQ

At Longsands Sixth Form, we actively support scholars who wish to complete the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ).

Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) example questions:

Subject Support

During your time at Longsands Sixth Form, you will gain valuable support from your subject teachers during lesson time and Sixth Form Support Sessions. They will be able to help you with any queries and questions you may have.

Wellbeing

The pressure of studying for your Sixth Form courses can sometimes reach levels where you feel that the stress and anxiety become unmanageable. People experience the physical and mental effects of stressful situations when they feel that they cannot cope with demands that are being placed on them. Sixth Form courses are very demanding and at times even the most hard-working scholar can feel that their course is placing too much of a burden on them.

If you feel that the pressure of Sixth Form study is affecting you in any way, please do not hesitate to come and have a chat. There is a wide range of support that we can offer from within the Sixth Form team and we also have contacts with various external support agencies who can offer help and guidance.

Perhaps the most important advice is to be organised, to manage your time effectively, and to ask for help as soon as you need it.