Extra curricular & Enrichment

Extracurricular and enrichment activities at sixth form are activities that students can participate in outside of their subject courses. Enrichment activities can help students develop a sense of self, learn new skills, and challenge themselves. They can also help students develop transferrable skills that will prepare them for life after Sixth Form.

Clubs and societies: Students can join clubs and societies that are run by other students, such as a debating society, medical society, or chess society.
Interest groups: Students can join interest groups to explore their interests.
Sports: Students can join sports teams to develop communication and leadership skills.
Volunteering: Students can participate in volunteering schemes to gain valuable work experience.
Short courses: Students can take short courses and MOOCS to expand their knowledge and skills.
Work experience: Students can gain work experience through work placement schemes.
Duke of Edinburgh's Award: Students participate in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award to develop skills such as problem solving and perseverance.

Volunteering

All Year 12 students are expected to complete 30 hours of volunteering over the course of the year.

The purpose of volunteering is to give students responsibility for supporting others, to develop communication skills, to forge a strong sense of community, and to give younger students some visible role models around school.

It also develops students time management skills, as they learn to balance your different commitments and build communication and leadership skills that are valued by employers and universities.

Some of the opportunities available include:

Supporting and mentoring in main school lessons within a chosen subject
Subject prefects
Peer mentors
Reading mentors
Diversity Champions
LGBTQ+ support
Supporting a Year 7 form group
Digital Support helpers
Learning Support helpers
Project Leaders in Science
Library Volunteers
Charity Champions
Lunchtime/breaktime duties
Community environmental support

Trips and visits

This spring we are running fully funded Sixth Form Trips to Thailand and Vietnam.

Immerse yourself in global experiences! As part of the Turing Scheme, our students have the potential to embark on fully funded international trips to exotic destinations like Thailand or Vietnam. Expanding horizons, make memories, and build lifelong friendships.

All students will have the opportunity to attend at least one university trip in Year 12

For the academic year 2024-2025, all students have the opportunity to visit Warwick University.

Examples of Sixth Form trips and visits from 2023-24...

CERN trip July 4-6th 2024

Year 12 and Year 13 Physicists enjoyed a fantastic trip to CERN in July, led by Ms Hamnett, Mr Whiteley, and Mrs Merritt. They had a fascinating tour of CERN itself, and the incredible new interactive visitors centre, and also enjoyed boats across the lake, a cable car into the mountains, getting sprayed under the 130m high fountain Jet D’Eau, seeing the History of Science Museum, picnic in the park and much more. The students were an absolute credit to the school and the only suggestion for improvement they come up with was to make the trip longer.

Student feedback about trip highlights and best bits:

“I enjoyed everything, walking around (the city)— beautiful architecture, the green plains; going to the mountain — such a nice view and memories, swimming in the lake — refreshing and just right for that weather, visiting CERN — definitely the most interesting and unique place, our tour guides have explained the concepts very well. Eating delicious food!”

“Everything, it was very fun to be in another country and do stuff we could only do there such as the cable car and the giant fountain and it was amazing being able to see CERN”.

“A highlight was, asking difficult physics questions and getting decent answers!”

“I really liked how it was both enjoyable, educational and engaging”.

“Best school trip I have ever been on”.