Welcome to Ashlawn Sixth Form

Ashlawn Sixth Form is a special place to be.

We want our students first and foremost to enjoy their experience here with us and aspire for everyone to achieve the best grades they possibly can.

With a broad range of over 30 courses on offer including both A Level and Vocational qualifications, Ofsted specifically commented on how our Sixth Form students value the quality of their learning and the high-quality teaching by our dedicated teachers.

We encourage our students to aim high with their career aspirations, be this university, an apprenticeship or employment.

We first inspire and then support by arranging keynote speakers, alumni talks, university trips, Oxbridge mentoring, employer interviews, apprenticeship workshops, a full week’s work experience and 1-1 careers advice. Over 80% of our students go on to university with a third securing a Russell Group place and more and more are successful in degree apprenticeships.

We also want much more for our students.

We encourage all our students to find a place where they feel a sense of belonging, where they get the confidence and support to develop their character and explore a broad range of enrichment opportunities including our Pay it Forward and Student Leadership programmes. Students may find themselves performing at local care homes, listening to Year 7 students read as a Reading Buddy, giving advice to KS3 students as a Peer Mentor or presenting to Senior Management about a Charity event. Ofsted praised how impressively keen our Sixth Form students were to give back to the school community and how they could see this in action in the opportunities that we offer.

We support all our students whenever they might need a helping hand, academically and pastorally.

In addition to our specialist Sixth Form teachers who inspire, challenge and support students, we have a strong, dedicated Sixth Form team which includes a Sixth Form Academic Mentor and a Sixth Form Pastoral Officer who are always there to give students the academic, pastoral and wellbeing support they need.

We are proud that our Alumni want to keep involved in our school community.

They talk with pride about their Sixth Form experience and tell us about how their academic achievements and enrichment opportunities opened doors and developed key employability and personal skills that have helped them to go onto successful careers.

This is our aim for all our students.

We hope you can see for yourself what a special place this is.

Lorraine Cunliffe
Assistant Principal
Head of Sixth Form and Employability