Miss WeirMr Ochiltree

Mr Rosen

Mr OchiltreeHead of Sixth

Form

Laura FranklinConnexions

Mrs SuttonTransitions

Co-ordinator

Miss WeirHead of Year 12

Mrs PowtonSixth Form Pastoral Assistant

Mrs CornwellData Manager

16-19 Bursary applications

Elevate: Time Management (28 Sep)

Open Evening (28 Sep) – help please!

Establish good habits…especially PS

Complete homework

Complete coursework/assignments

Write up lesson notes

Read text books/set texts

Look at course specification

and past papers

Compile revision notes

Look at forthcoming

topics

Try exam questions

Read through lesson notes

Wider reading (eg library and

on-line)

Read a (quality!)

newspaper

eg CORNELL

NOTE TAKING

SYSTEM/

MINDMAPS/

?

…what works

for you?

Start courses

16-19 bursary applications

Open Evening (28 Sep) – help please!

Elevate: Time Management (28 Sep)

Establish good habits…esp. PS time

Make sure part-time work is proportionate

Girls more likely to have p/t jobs than boys

Students in the SE more likely to have jobs

No significant effect on results for ‘small’ jobs, maybe some benefit

Over ~10 hours/week greater impact

Why are you earning money?

Doctor/Dentist/Driving Lessons/School….

A Level predictions (based on GCSEs)

10/24%

A Level Predictions from GCSEs

A/B

B A

Grade AS PointsA Level Points

EPQ

A* - 140 70

A 60 120 60

B 50 100 50

C 40 80 40

D 30 60 30

E 20 40 20

OLD

UCAS T

ARIF

F

Grade AS PointsA Level Points

EPQ

A* - 56 28

A 20 48 24

B 16 40 20

C 12 32 16

D 10 24 12

E 6 16 8

NEW

UCAS T

ARIF

F

November tests (w/c 7 Nov)

Safe Drive Stay Alive – Wycombe (16 Nov)

Y1112 Information Evening (22 Nov)

House Events run by Sixth Form

Art Athletics Challenge Dance

DramaFootball/ Volleyball

Languages (Merits)

Music Rounders Swimming Technology

Consultation Evening (1 Dec)

Data home (12 Dec)

Fund Raising Week & Old Folks’ Party (w/c 12 Dec)

21/48%

Options chosen for Year 13

(Optional) Centigrade (170 universities, 300+ institutions, 40,000 degree courses, 450,000 applicants)

Centigrade online:

reduces the courses and institutionsto consider

suggests courses and universitieswhich you might not have considered

detects mismatching

particularly if, by then, you needsome inspiration!

Why?Near home OR far away OR abroad?

Academic vs Vocational?

3 years or more?Gap year - before or after?

How realistic/ambitious am I?Employability vs enjoyment?

Why?

Near home OR far away OR abroad?

With training?

With qualifications?

Big/small company/self-employed?

How realistic/ambitious am I?

Employability vs enjoyment?

Exam entries for Summer

Geography field trip

Ski trip & Washington & Barcelona

29/67%

Election of Cabinet and House Officials

Higher Education evening & Fair (tbc)

Launch of HE programme and Unifrog(?)

Holiday (?)

Language Exchanges

AS Exams start in some subjects

38/88%

PHASE 1 & 2 SUBJECTS

Everything except…

PHASE 3 SUBJECTS

Design Technology

Mathematics

Further Mathematics

Politics

Assessment mainly by exam

AS and A Levels assessed at the end

Courses not divided into modules

No exams in January

AS and A levels decoupled – AS results don’t count towards A Level

Y12 not doing 2017 AS exams if doing 2018 A Level exams

Non-AS exams week (date tbc)

AS exams begin (15 May tbc)

Trip to Birmingham University (23 Jun)

Possibility of starting EPQ

(Work Shadowing?)

Start of UCAS on-line process (Activity Day?)

57%

Personal statement written?

Thoughts about life after Y13 & AHS

Work experience for vocational courses?

AS Results (17 Aug)

Lots of myths so follow AHS advice!

Universities are changing

Applications are changing

Importance of Predicted Grades

Available evidence, not re-sits/hope

Importance of:

no guaranteed place for you…

AS results GCSEs Other Tests

Personal Statement

School Reference

LEICESTER BRISTOL BRISTOL

MEDICINE MEDICINE LAW

Predicted A Levels

6% 12% 40%

GCSEs 44% 8% 20%

Personal Statement

(borderline only)

70% 15%

Test? UKCAT 50% UKCAT 10% LNAT 25%

UCAS or ???...your choice Open Days? Current Issues programme Community Involvement

A Level Certificate Evening!

Possibility of 2019 entry –we will support

www.ucas.com

www.aqa.org.uk

www.edexcel.org.uk

www.ocr.org.uk

www.wjec.org.uk

www.ahs.bucks.sch.uk

Building the future

Sports HallPE & RS

Gym

Harding Hall

MainHall

Reception

Dining Room

Tower Block

GeographyMathsICT

Science

Study Centre

Sixth FormHistory

LanguagesLibrary

Business StudiesArt

LanguagesPsychology

Technology Drama

English

MusicDance

Netball courts

(floodlit)

On our to-do list:

• One science lab (S17)

• Tower Block classrooms

• Lighting and security

• Main Block boilers

• Longer-term plans

So watch out for

Development

Communciations!