Sixth Form Enrichment
As part of our aspirational curriculum, we believe that students should have a broad and well-rounded sixth form experience. This is why we offer an extra qualification or award in addition to students studying their chosen A-levels. It allows sixth form students to explore and develop their wider interests, giving them the opportunity to enhance their skills and knowledge, and also broaden their horizons.
These enrichment options are often timetabled and are all completed during year 12 giving students an advantage in university and apprenticeship applications where they can talk about their additional qualifications and experiences. The options have been picked to give students a potentially very different qualification to their A-levels but one that could be very useful to their chosen career, or just because they take an interest in it.
We review our enrichment curriculum on an annual basis to make sure that it is fully up-to-date and will be as beneficial as possible to our sixth form students.
“In the sixth form, enrichment activities enhance the taught curriculum.”
Ofsted, 2022
In addition, outside speakers come in to talk to the students during the assemblies programme, and when these are not happening the Sixth form team share thoughts for the day on a range of pastoral topics which encompass PSHE and RSE themes. We very much treat our Sixth Form students as young adults and provide opportunities for discussion and debate on a wide range of current affairs, societal issues and topics that are of interest.
Our senior PE clubs and recent achievements include:
Netball
PE club – every Monday lunch and Thursday after school
2023 – reached National Schools Finals and finished 4th overall
2024 – reached National Schools Regional Finals
2024 – reached the quarter finals of the SnS National Cup
Cross Country
PE club – every Wednesday lunch time
Reached National Finals in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024
Compete regularly in the Wirral and Merseyside Leagues
Volleyball
PE club – every Tuesday lunchtime
Affiliated with Wirral Volleyball Club for National League fixtures
Trampolining
PE club – every Friday lunchtime
2024 – reached Regional Finals and National Finals
Dance Company – est. 2024
PE club – every Monday after school
We also run a level 3 sports leaders qualification which is worth 16 UCAS points. The students help to deliver extra curricular sessions, coach our younger students and officiate matches. We currently have sports leaders supporting netball, volleyball, dance, trampolining and gymnastics sessions.
As a department we also run trips that are open to the sixth form. We run an annual ski trip to Austria every February. The students get the opportunity to ski in several different ski resorts including Radstadt, FlachauWinkl, Zauchansee and Wagrain. Other activities also include tobogganing, tubing, riding an alpine rollercoaster and visiting a thermal spa.
We run a bi-annual sports tour, previous locations include Barbados, Australia and Malaysia. The students have the opportunity to play netball and volleyball against local school teams, experience new cultures and visit fantastic tourist locations and natural wonders.
