The Harvey Grammar School

The Sixth Form experience at The Harvey is an exciting opportunity to learn in a stimulating environment where academic endeavour is celebrated and embraced by all. It is a chance to learn in different ways with the opportunity to take more control of your own learning. The Harvey boasts a teaching staff of the highest quality, to expertly guide and support you through your courses. We offer our students both flexibility and range in their choices for Post-16 study. Until now, you have had only a limited say in the make-up of your curriculum. You have studied a wide range of subjects, many of them compulsory, having acquired a broad and balanced foundation on which to build your future career. Now you are faced with an exciting prospect; to choose the post-16 courses which interest you most and ensure you make best progress towards making well informed choices for life and learning beyond The Harvey. We believe that it is important for you to feel well supported when you take the step into post-16 learning and we will do all that we can to help structure and guide you, as you adapt to a system of learning focused on a small number of subjects and with a new and more independent learning approach. Similarly, we want you to continue to feel that you have outstanding pastoral support and even though you will move on from the direct care of your House Team when you join us, the Sixth Form Team will ensure that pastoral support is in place for you. As well as ensuring that you have the opportunity to thrive academically during your time in the Sixth Form at The Harvey, we are also committed to ensuring that you enjoy a rounded educational experience while you are here with us. Through a wide range of extra-curricular activities, leadership opportunities, visiting outside speakers from all walks of life, the opportunity to complete a work experience placement during Year 12 and the provision of significant support in planning and preparing for life beyond The Harvey, we aim to ensure that you gain as much as you possibly can in the time you spend with us. In line with these objectives, if you choose to be a part of our Sixth Form at The Harvey, you are expected to show a keen interest in your own learning and to engage positively with the curriculum choices you make. We also hope that you will want to be fully involved in all of the new learning and life-skills opportunities that will open for you throughout the next two years. The step up to Sixth Form life and learning is a big one and you will undertake new challenges and routines. It may take a little time for you to get used to things but please be assured that we will help you take those steps with surety and confidence. The Sixth Form is carefully structured to help and guide you through the years ahead and to help you reach your potential in every way.

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