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Deadline for all applications closes on Thursday 6th February 2025.  Any questions please come and speak with a member of the sixth form team or email sponnesixthform@sponne.org.uk.

Internal Students

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External Students

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Our sixth form provides a structured and supportive environment where students flourish and develop the skills needed to go on to be successful in their chosen careers, training and/or higher education. We place great emphasis on academic achievement. We offer a full range of qualifications including A-levels and Level 3 vocational courses. We encourage students to broaden their experiences and to involve themselves in the school community including compulsory in-school mentoring and compulsory work-related learning.

Whatever future plans you may have at this stage, we strongly recommend that you keep your options open by joining us and seeing what we have to offer.

How do Sponne Sixth Form meet the 16-19 study programme requirements?

All sixth form establishments that are funded by the ESFA have to ensure that they meet the criteria set out in the government’s 16-19 study programme guidance. The criteria, and how we meet them as a sixth form, are all detailed below:

All students must follow a structured study programme

Sponne is an accessible sixth form. We offer 30 Level 3 courses, which include a wide variety of A-levels including 6 vocational courses. Additional qualifications such as Extended project qualification and core Maths are also offered.
All study programmes require students to complete a minimum of 580 hours of planned activities per year, including qualification and non-qualification activities.

Students must complete a minimum of three Level 3 qualifications, in addition to the tutor time programme, core PSHE, a one-week work-related learning placement at the end of Year 12, alongside supervised study and independent study periods.

Students who have not yet obtained a GCSE grade 4 English or Mathematics are required to continue to work and obtain these qualifications. 

Students who wish to study at Sponne but have not yet obtained a grade 4 in their English or Mathematics GCSE are required to attend timetabled lessons to help support them in gaining this qualification. These resits take place in November, with a second chance in January each year.

All students must take part in some form of work-related activity that will enable them to develop critical employability skills needed for real working conditions. These should be meaningful non-qualification activities and should take into account their needs and career plans, as well as prepare them for adult life more generally.

All Year 12 students are required to organise and take part in a compulsory week of work-related learning during the final term of Year 12. Students spend tutor time and study periods investigating their placements to ensure that they are searching for placements that will allow them to develop skills and have experiences that link to their overall career goals.. All students have access to a database to aid their search and their work-related learning will be recorded and monitored on Unifrog
The tutor time programme and PSHE provision are both well structured and comprehensive. Examples of curriculum topics include mental health and wellbeing, road safety, radicalisation, extremism, managing personal finances, effective revision strategies and preparing for post 18 life to name but a few.
Sponne Sixth Form runs a business networking event in the summer term for Year 12 students, where students can talk to people from a variety of careers and backgrounds. 
We run a post-18 day in the summer term, whereby students attend talks from universities and alternative post-18 options.
Alongside this, further careers support and guidance is available when we attend the UCAS Exhibition and students also have the opportunity to attend any individual open days and apprenticeship fairs, as well as having access to an independent careers advisor. 
In order to prepare for applications, students start to complete their personal statements in the summer term of Year 12 on Unifrog. Students are given a lot of advice from universities on this and follow a process of ensuring this is checked by teachers, tutors and Sixth Form Team. 

We offer a variety of leadership opportunities for our students within the sixth form. The Sixth Form Student Leadership Team is a group of students who take on responsibility within our community. Their roles include focuses on wellbeing, environment, extra curricular and charities . This group of students all apply for their positions and are interviewed by the Sixth Form Team, and they are involved in decision making for the sixth form community alongside the Sixth Form Team.

Students are encouraged to participate in the lower school community

Our sixth form students also work to benefit our community through their enrichment work. Students undertake mentoring in subject lessons, reading mentoring with Year 7 students or lower school form time and helping in enrichment clubs.

Year 12 Letters

Year 13 Letters

Sixth Form Events & Information

Useful information, events, taster sessions and activities can all be found here.

What Career

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UCAS Newsletter

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University Taster Course Programme

https://london.ac.uk/ways-study/study-campus-london/university-taster-courses

The Taster Course Programme provides Year 12 sixth form students with a taste of wat life at a university in London is like.  All taster courses are free to attend and you can choose from a variety of subjects taking place at the numerous participating universities.  Courses range from voice and drama to medicine and nursing to computing and business.  Please click here for more information.

World Skills UK (The Skills Show)

https://www.worldskillsuk.org/directions/our-events/the-skills-show

The Skills Show is the nation’s largest skills and careers event help to shape the future of a new generation by helping young people to go further, faster in their careers.

EPOC  Careers Conferences

https://www.epoc.org.uk

EPOC Careers Conference organises events for students who want to become doctors or lawyers.  These event will help you maximise your chance of being accepted into the university and profession of your choice.  They will help you deicide whether medicine/law is the career for you and help you make the very best UCAS application you can.