Courses

Advanced Level Courses

We offer a wide variety of A Level courses. Some subjects you will be familiar with, such as English, mathematics, history, French, Spanish and art. Others like psychology, governments and politics, and law are not normally available as GCSEs in high schools and so, although you may have heard of them, you may not be clear about what topics they cover. The last section of the prospectus will give you a good idea of what you will study over the two years for each subject that you choose. It is important to realise that there are only a few subjects that you are required to have studied at GCSE level if you want to study them at A level. You can find out which these are by reading the subject information and by talking to your subject teachers, careers advisers and Connexions advisers.

You will study each A level subject for approximately four hours per week. In addition, you will be expected to do private study / homework of about four hours per week per subject.

Students taking the A level route will normally be expected to take four subjects as AS level in Year 12. In Year 13 most students will continue with three subjects as A2 level. In addition, there will be an opportunity to undertake additional programmes of study, for example - AS general studies and AS extended project. We guarantee that AS courses starting in September 2011 will continue into an A2 course starting in September 2012.

Applied Courses

GCSE Courses

We offer one year GCSE courses in English and mathematics. These are for students who narrowly missed getting a grade C and will enable them to improve their grade. Each course is 3 hours per week plus homework.

Your Individual Course

The course that you choose has to match your ability and your aspirations. Once you have decided what you want to do, we will match what we offer to your needs and suggest a course that will enable you to succeed.

What else will you study?

In addition, all students will have the benefit of enrichment activities and the Weekly Forum.

Useful links

A-Levels
Advice
Students' Voices
General Studies & Critical Thinking