Welcome to the most stimulating and engaging phase of your education so far. You will develop more as learners over the next two years than you have at any time before. Your time in College VI will give you the opportunity to experience greater independence in your thinking and learning as we help you to develop your skills for your future. Our goal is to ensure that you cultivate a love of learning, so that you continue to learn throughout your lives, long after you have left school.

As students in College VI, we have very high expectations of you for the ways in which you conduct yourselves, learn and interact with staff and each other. You will be role models for all others at the Collegiate and will be encouraged to act as student leaders and mentors to younger students. Our community will look to you to set the example and demonstrate the very highest standards.

Academically, we offer a varied selection of subject choices in College VI to enable you to pursue a path towards your chosen career, further training or Higher Education. You can choose to focus on the subjects that you are most passionate about and that will best support you in opening doors in the future. We encourage you to have high aspirations and ambitious goals as we help you to realise your full potential. You will be supported throughout your studies by a high quality, inspiring teaching staff and experienced College VI Tutors who know how to help you achieve your very best.

Whilst academic results are extremely important, being part of College VI is about so much more. College VI students have regular opportunities to learn outside of the classroom on educational trips and visits, a variety of enrichment opportunities, the Extended Project Qualification and a range of co-curricular activities. Whatever your next steps beyond school, we want you to leave Riddlesdown Collegiate as well-qualified and well-rounded individuals, confident and prepared to embrace the opportunities and challenges of the future. To help you decide which path to take, you will be given first-rate advice and guidance on careers, apprenticeships and universities so that each one of you leaves College VI with a promising future.

Mr Jay Weeks

Headteacher, College VI