Format of the Evening• Form Tutors

– The role of the tutor

– How the Sixth Form works

• The Head of Sixth Form, Asst Head of Sixth

Form/Head of Year 12 and Student Services

Manager– Reporting and Academic Monitoring

– Opportunities for Year 12 Students

– UCAS

Sixth Form Staff and Responsibilities

Head of Sixth Form - Ms C Rickard

Assistant Head of Sixth Form with responsibility for Year 12 – Mr D Thompson

Student Services Manager – Mrs J Honour-Jones

SLT Link to the Sixth Form – Mr G Williams

Tutor Team

12Austen Miss S Scott and Mrs M Marsh

12Britten Mrs A Aspland and Mrs S Ponte

12Hepworth Mrs B Fraser

12King Mr D King

12Lawes Mrs D Brown and Mrs S Griffiths

12Newton Mrs S Evans

12Ryder Mr J Dunning

The Role of the Sixth Form Tutor • First point of contact for parents

• Academic and pastoral mentoring

• Contributing to, collating and writing

references, both for employment and

University

• Students register with their tutor at 8.40am

and 12.30pm each day

The School Day• Year 12 students are required to be in school from 8.40am to

3.30pm

• THERE IS NO HOME STUDY FOR YEAR 12 STUDENTS

• Morning registration begins at 8.40am – students should not be

late!

• Afternoon registration begins at 12.30pm

• Year 12 Students may go out of school at break and lunchtime,

but must be back in school for the start of lessons 3 and 5

respectively.

• 6th form students learning to drive are allowed to have driving

lessons during their independent study periods but these must

not be booked during lesson or form times or on Monday

afternoon if an enrichment speaker has been organised

Independent Study Lessons For each taught hour, students should plan to spend at least another hour

working independently

• Year 12 students have at least 10 independent study lessons per week

• Sensible use of these lessons is the key to success as an 6th form

student– Group work in the canteen

– Quiet study in the main study area

– Quiet study in the library

– Silent study in the quiet room

• The best use of independent study lessons is to allocate each one to a

subject and plan to complete homework in these. This leaves time in

the evenings to do extended work and more in depth research

• INDEPENDENT STUDY LESSONS ARE NOT SUPERVISED

6th Form Dress Code

The Sixth Form dress code is smart office wear which must be adhered to equally by both boys and

girls. The specific requirements are as follows:

Girls

Suit – i.e. jacket with matching tailored skirt , dress or full length trousers, not skinny black jeans

or anything which can be mistaken for jeans!

Shirt or smart top without logos

No excessively short skirts, no shorts or leggings – no stretchy skirts!!

Smart shoes (not trainers or other casual shoes). No excessively high heels. No boots

Vest/strappy tops and tops that reveal midriffs are not suitable

Boys

Suit – i.e. navy, grey or black tailored jacket and matching trousers

Shirt with tie

Smart shoes (not trainers or other casual shoes)

No shorts

All Sixth Formers

Hooded tops are not to be worn at any time

Only ear piercing is permitted in school. No spreader earrings are allowed! No other facial

piercing is allowed

Hair should be neat, a natural colour not closely shaved (minimum of 2) or outrageous in style

A jacket must be worn when walking around school, as well as for assemblies and other formal

occasions.

Any student who breaches the school dress code can expect to be sent home to change.

Planners

• Each student has been given a Sixth Form planner

• They should record their H/W and due dates

• The planner contains the deadline dates for all subjects

• Tutors look at planners each week

• The planner contains the student’s copy of his or her Academic Mentoring Records and Target Setting Sheets

Absences and IllnessLevels of attendance have a direct impact on achievement

• Dental and medical appointments should, whenever possible,

avoid lesson and form times. Form tutors should also be

notified in advance of these appointments whenever possible

• All absences due to illness must be accompanied by a note

on return, or a phone call to the attendance officer on the first

morning of the absence.

• A doctor’s certificate is required after 5 days

• Students are required to attend all timetabled lessons – we

will ring home about student persistently missing lessons.

However, SIXTH FORM STUDENTS NEEDS TO TAKE

RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN LEARNING

Consortium Lessons• Consortium students are required to attend all lessons at their

consortium school even if their home school is on Inset/early closure.

• If the consortium school is on Inset or closed, students must attend

the home school and work in the study area.

• Students are required to attend their consortium lessons even if the

teacher is absent – work to be completed in the lesson will always be

provided.

• Consortium students must make their own way to and from their

consortium school at the beginning and the end of the school day

• Students are provided with a mini-bus to take them to lessons at RPS

timetabled in the middle of the day

• Consortium students going to RPS may need to leave their preceding

lesson a few minutes early to catch the bus

Consortium Timetable

RPS St George’s

Registration 8.30-8.40 8.40-8.50

Period 1 8.40-9.40 8.50-9.50

Period 2 9.40-10.40 9.50-10.50

Break 10.40-11.00 10.50-11.15

Period 3 11.00-12.00 11.15-12.15

Period 4 12.00-13.00 12.15-13.15

Lunch 13.00-14.00 13.15-14.15

Registration 14.00-14.20 14.15-14.40

Period 5 14.20-15.20 14.40-15.40

Period 6

Cars

• Please actively discourage students from

driving to school

• Students are not allowed to park on site

• Parking around the school is severely limited

• All students who insist on driving to school

must register their car number plate with Mrs

Honour Jones

Part-time Employment

• Up to a maximum of 12 hours per week please!

Smoking

• Sixth formers are role models for the rest of the school and as such should not be smoking anywhere close to the school site. Any sixth formers found to be smoking in the vicinity of the school site will be issued with a senior detention for after school on a Friday, or on a Saturday morning

Head of Sixth Form - Ms C Rickard

Assistant Head of Sixth Form and Head of Year 12 – Mr D Thompson

Student Services Manager – Mrs J Honour-Jones

SLT Link to the Sixth Form – Mr G Williams

Sixth Form

Leadership

Team

My Role

• Tracking and monitoring of students

• Student welfare

• Monitoring Sixth Form teaching

• UCAS Prep

• Overseeing Yr 12 opportunities

Target Setting

• In early October students will be given their

aspirational targets for achievement in each

subject

• These are based on ALIS testing which takes

place this week and prior attainment at GCSE

• These are not predicted grades – they are the

grade a student could get if they work really

hard

• Targets are not a cap on achievement - some

students may even outperform their targets

• All students will have formal target setting

interviews with their subject teachers and form

tutor in the Autumn term

• Teachers will predict grades based on

performance in class

• These predictions will take place in December

and again in June

• Year 12 Parents Evening takes place in January

• Year 12 exams take place in March/April with

results issued to parents after Easter

• Public AS exams take place in May/June

Subject Teacher T

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PG

Oct

PG

Mar

Comments/Issues: Sept

Comments/Issues: Oct/Nov Comments/Issues: Mar/Apr

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE REQUIREMENT

FOR CONTINUING INTO YEAR 13 IS AT LEAST

A D GRADE IN THREE SUBJECTS IN YEAR

12/AS EXAMS AND A SATISFACTORY RECORD

IN ENRICHMENT LESSONS

How to know is your son/daughter is likely to

underachieve…

• If they are never working in the evenings

• If they tell you they have no work to do

• If their friends also claim to have no work to do

• If they have a job that is over 12 hours a week

• If they are not solidly revising in the weeks prior to

the Year 12 exams and/or the AS exams

Progression to Year 13

• A pass at C or above in Maths and English GCSE

• A pass at a D or above Yr 12/AS exams

• A satisfactory progress reports from their BTec teachers

• A pass at E or above in Certificated Enrichment activities

or a satisfactory report in non-certificated Enrichment

activities

• STUDENTS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE

WITH ANY SUBJECT IN WHICH THEY HAVE GAINED

AN E OR U IN YEAR 12 AND/OR AS EXAMS

• STUDENTS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO PROGRESS

INTO YEAR 13 WITH ONLY TWO A LEVELS

How You Can Help? • Read the 6th form planner carefully and make a note of the

major deadlines listed for each subject your son/daughter

is studying

• Periodically have a look through your son/daughter’s

planner to see if they are using it well

• Check out the Sixth Form website for information

• Help your son/daughter to establish an after-school study

regime

• Think carefully about the timing of family holidays

Year 12 Opportunities

Enrichment

• General Studies

• Statistical Maths

• Critical Thinking

• EPQ

• Study Skills

• Visiting Speakers

• Interview Preparation

Opportunities for Year 12s• Peer mentoring and paired reading

• Running a club for younger years

• Duke of Edinburgh Scheme

• Young Enterprise and Dragon’s Apprentice

• Debating and Mock Trials

• Senior Reading Group

• American Exchange Programme

• Become a House Captain

• Apply to be a Prefect and then a Senior Prefect in April

• All these roles are highly regarded on university

applications

Higher

Apprenticeship

Evening

16 March 2017

• Aon

• Barclays

• Chamber of Commerce

• Civil Service

• Deloitte

• EY

• GSK

• KPMG

• Marks & Spencer

• PWC

• Vauxhall

Careers Day

AECOM John Lewis

Aon KPMG

Army M&P Models

Astium Monarch

Barclays Microsoft

BDO Millbrook Proving Ground

BMJ N.C.S

BP Police

BRE PWC

Bretherton Law RAF

British Red Cross Ramblers Holidays

Chamber of Commerce Rayden Solicitors

Civil Service RoCRE

Computacentre Rothamsted

Crocodile Films Royal Navy

CVS RVC

Deloitte Santander

EY Selex-ES UK

Finch Sir John Lawes Academy Trust

Fire Service Skanska

Freedom Communications Strutt & Parker

Fundamentally Children 3aaa

Gist Teach First

Goldsborough Tesco

Grant Thornton The James Marshall Trust

Grey London Warner Bros

GSK Welcome Break

Head Start Recruitment Wenta

Herts County Council What Uni

Imagination Technologies Whitbread

John Laing Training Willis Towers Watson

PE/Sport/Exercise Sessions –

Wednesday Afternoons

• All students are timetabled for these

• Activities take place on a carousel basis

Senior Prefect Team

• Head Boy: Tom Pigram

• Head Girl: Emily Evans

• Deputy Head Boy: Marco Ghelfi

• Deputy Head Girl: Shivani Patel

The House System

• All Year 12 students have been invited to apply to be House

Captains of their house

• House Captains will be elected by all members of the house

• They will work with the Heads of House to lead assemblies,

take part in form activities, encourage participation in house

competitions and help with fundraising.

• Anyone considering applying to be a Prefect next year

should think about being a House Captain

The Role of the Prefect

What do the Senior Prefects do?• Act as student representatives for the whole school

• Chair the Junior Leadership Team (student council)

• Report to the Senior Leadership Team

• Organises charity fundraising events

• Responsible for the Sixth Form area

• Sit on the Board of Governors

• Organise the Prefects

• Chair the LLT

UCAS and Applying to University• UCAS applications are made from September of Year 13.

• Teachers make predicted grades for UCAS based on performance in end of

year examinations.

• It is essential that students work hard in Year 12 and do not

underperform in their exams.

• Students who apply successfully for highly competitive courses are the ones

who take advantage of extracurricular opportunities and extend themselves

with wider reading.

• Year 12 students:

– follow a course of lessons to help them prepare their applications

– attend a UCAS conference

– are authorised to attend up to three Open Days in school time For

parents:

– UCAS information evening with advice from the sixth form team will be

held in April 2017.

Oxbridge/Medicine Applications

• We will be meeting soon with students who may be

considering an application to Oxbridge or for Medicine,

Dentistry or Veterinary Science

• These students must embark on a programme of wider

reading/ experience – it is too late by Year 13

• Vet/Medical applicants must arrange appropriate work

experience and/or voluntary work

• Prospective Oxbridge applicants should attend the Oxford

Society meeting at Stanborough School, WGC at 7.00pm on

Thursday 22 September

The 6th Form School Year

• 7 October – Yr 12 Target grades issued

• 2 December– Autumn Gradesheets issued

• 10 January- Yr 12 Parents’ Evening

• 27 March to 7 April – Year 12 exams

• 27 April – UCAS Information Evening

• 4 May– Oxbridge Information Evening

• 23 June – Full Reports issued

Any Questions?

• Email: 6thformadmin@sjl.herts.sch.uk