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Sixth Form

Over the next two years you will probably start driving a car, attend your first interview, take a first step into the world of paid employment, make a choice about your career path, and vote for the first time.

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The ASPIRE programme hopes to equip you with the skills and knowledge to make these next steps but click here for useful information on these future milestones:

ASPIRE PROGRAMME

A wide range of themes are covered during the Sixth Form and are heavily supported by outside specialist speakers. The programme is on a two-year rolling cycle so some themes are covered biennially rather than specifically to a year group. 

MICHAELMAS TERM: MAKING THE MOST OF THE YEAR AHEAD

  • Balance, perspective and perfectionism (Year 12 only) 

  • Study skills – time management (Year 12 only) 

  • Miscellaneous lectures/current affairs/FLASH DEBATES (gang and knife crime, abortion, populism, terrorism, radicalisation) 

  • Consent and party scene (RAP project, John Hoskins, TED talks, documentary) 

  • Consent – forced marriage, domestic abuse 

  • Singer Symposium/ARTiculation  

  • Creating a positive online profile and digital footprint 

  • Safe drive - stay alive 

  • Academic and Pastoral Learning Diaries are completed in October 

LENT TERM 

  • Oratory Competition 

  • Drug awareness 

  • Sexual Health  

  • Female health checks: Coppafeel – breast health and awareness, smear test. 

  • Academic and Pastoral Learning Diaries are completed in January and April. 

YEAR 13

LENT AND TRINITY TERMS: PREPARING FOR UNIVERSITY

  • Cooking 

  • Budgeting 

  • First aid 

  • Travelling abroad 

  • Consent and university 

  • Flat sharing 

  • Student loans 

  • Academic and Pastoral Learning Diaries are completed in January and April 

YEAR 12

TRINITY TERM - POST AS PROGRAMME (SOME TOPICS VARIABLE EACH YEAR)

  • HE choices and application process 

  • Personal statements – subject specific 

  • Research and choosing and reading books 

  • Making the most of open days 

  • Emotional intelligence 

  • Leadership 

  • Creativity 

  • Environment 

  • Economics of poverty 

  • Charitable giving 

  • Political landscape 

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