The Sixth Form Centre
Ages 16-18 years
The Abbey School is particularly proud of its Sixth Form. Students enter it with a wide range of ambitions and aims for the future. Over the two years of the Sixth Form the school's aim is to help all students to understand their own potential and to achieve it in all the activities that the Sixth Form offers.
The obvious difference between a Sixth Form College and a school Sixth Form is that a school also has a body of younger pupils. Their presence allows Sixth Formers to take responsibilities that would not otherwise be available. The Head Girls, Prefects and House Captains have obvious responsibilities, as do the Games, Drama and Music Captains. All Lower Sixth year students undertake weekly duties, while some also help to organise clubs for younger students or train to be peer-led drugs advisers and "buddies" to younger pupils.
Contact with younger girls is also found through the orchestra, choir and other musical activities, the Sports Leadership programme, School Council, Duke of Edinburghs Award Scheme and even the Young Enterprise Companies, whose members see the rest of the school as their potential market.
The two years in the Sixth Form are a bridge between the main school years up to GCSE and the years of Higher Education, when the student is often based at an institution some distance from home. Most universities and colleges expect their students to be self-motivated and very much responsible for their own learning - no parent breathing down your neck to ensure homework gets done on time any more!
To avoid too sudden a change for students, at The Abbey we grant certain freedoms and privileges to members of the Lower Sixth, and further freedom and responsibilty for their own work in the Upper Sixth.
A special privilege of The Abbey Sixth Form is the no-uniform policy. Girls may wear casual clothes of their choice, with a black and white dress code for formal school events.
The School’s fine facilities include a separate Sixth Form suite with a wide range of study, IT, recreational and catering facilities for older students.
One of the greatest strengths of The Abbey School's Sixth Form is the breadth of the CURRICULUM on offer, with 27 A level subjects to choose from. Timetabling is very flexible and all the arts, sciences, humanitites, modern and classical languages are represented. In addition to the wide range of extra-curricular activities on offer to the whole school, the Sixth Form benefit from additional options.
Excellent A level examination results ensure entry to the very best higher education establishments, with approximately 10% each year attaining places at Oxford and Cambridge.
Click here to view the University Destinations page.
Year 11 pupils from other schools are invited into the Sixth Form for a unique Taster Day opportunity.
New Director of Sixth Form.
